Aṅguttara Nikāya Discourses of the Buddha An Anthology Part I Selected and translated from the Pāli by Nyanaponika Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi Buddhist Publication Society Kandy • Sri Lanka The Wheel Publication No. 155–156 Copyright © Kandy, Buddhist Publication Society, (1970) First edition: 1970. Second edition: 1980. BPS Online Edition © (2010) Digital Transcription Source: BPS. For this edition, the revised translations by Venerable Bodhi as given in the Numerical Discourses of the Buddha have been used with his kind permission. For free distribution. This work may be republished, reformatted, reprinted and redistributed in any medium. However, any such republication and redistribution is to be made available to the public on a free and unrestricted basis and translations and other derivative works are to be clearly marked as such and the Buddhist Publication Society is to be acknowledged as the original publisher. Contents Key to Abbreviations.....................................................................................................................4 Introduction....................................................................................................................................5 Aṅguttara Nikāya...................................................................................................................................6 I. The Chapter of the Ones............................................................................................................6 1. The Mind–I.........................................................................................................................6 2. The Mind–II........................................................................................................................6 3. Loving kindness.................................................................................................................7 4. Mind Is the Forerunner.....................................................................................................7 5. The Highest Gain...............................................................................................................8 6. One Person.........................................................................................................................8 7. Impossible..........................................................................................................................9 8. Mindfulness Directed to the Body...................................................................................9 II. The Chapter of the Twos........................................................................................................11 9. Unremitting Effort...........................................................................................................11 10. Abandon Evil.................................................................................................................11 11. Tranquillity and Insight................................................................................................12 12. Repaying One’s Parents................................................................................................13 13. Two Kinds of Happiness..............................................................................................13 III. The Chapter of the Threes.....................................................................................................14 14. The Fool and the Wise Person......................................................................................14 15. Dhamma, the Co-regent................................................................................................14 16. Cause for Shame............................................................................................................15 17. Three Types of Patients.................................................................................................15 18. Three Mentalities...........................................................................................................16 19. Free of “I”-making.........................................................................................................17 20. Causes of Action............................................................................................................18 21. Good Sleep......................................................................................................................19 22. The Divine Messengers.................................................................................................20 23. Threefold Pride..............................................................................................................22 24. The Conditioned and the Unconditioned...................................................................23 25. An Island of Refuge.......................................................................................................23 26. The Visible Nibbāna......................................................................................................24 27. To Whom Should Gifts Be Given?...............................................................................24 28. Do Monks Benefit Others?............................................................................................26 29. Three Sectarian Tenets..................................................................................................28 30. To the Kālāmas...............................................................................................................32 31. Lust, Hatred, and Delusion..........................................................................................34 32. Becoming........................................................................................................................36 33. The Threefold Training.................................................................................................37 34. The Refinement of the Mind–I.....................................................................................38 35. The Refinement of the Mind–II....................................................................................40 36. Gratification, Danger and Escape–I.............................................................................41 37. Gratification, Danger and Escape–II...........................................................................42 38. Gratification, Danger and Escape–III..........................................................................42 2 39. At the Gotamaka Shrine................................................................................................42 40. The Three Characteristics of Existence........................................................................43 41. Happy Days....................................................................................................................43 IV. The Chapter of the Fours.......................................................................................................44 42. The Stream......................................................................................................................44 43. Training for Enlightenment..........................................................................................44 44. Training in Determination and Insight.......................................................................45 45. The Four Right Efforts...................................................................................................46 46. The Tathāgata.................................................................................................................46 47. The Lion..........................................................................................................................47 48. The Best Kinds of Faith.................................................................................................48 49. Doṇa the Brahmin..........................................................................................................49 50. Seeking the End of the World......................................................................................50 51. Distortions of Perception..............................................................................................51 52. How to Be United in Future Lives...............................................................................52 53. The Gift of Food.............................................................................................................53 54. Respect for Parents........................................................................................................54 55. A Superior Person..........................................................................................................54 56. The Four Unthinkables.................................................................................................55 57. One’s Own Good and Another’s.................................................................................55 58. Four Thoroughbreds.....................................................................................................56 59. Four Occasions for Diligence.......................................................................................57 60. For One’s Own Sake......................................................................................................58 61. Four Wonderful Things................................................................................................58