Aṅguttara Nikāya
Appearance
The Aṅguttara Nikāya (literally "Increased by One Collection," also translated "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.
Quotes
[edit]- A lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.
- Vanijja Sutta, Anguttara Nikāya 5.177, as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- ‘Gain and loss, renown and disgrace,
- criticism and praise, happiness and unhappiness—
- These qualities are impermanent in human life,
- inconstant, liable to change.
- But, mindful, the sage knows them;
- he observes how they are liable to change.
- Desirable things do not upset his mind,
- nor is there resistance to the undesirable;
- His likes and dislikes have vanished,
- gone away, and exist no more.
- Having known the place that is stainless, free of grief,
- he has crossed beyond existence.’
- From the Section of Eights: "Worldly Qualities" (A IV 157–160), p. 265 in Gethin, Rupert (2008). Sayings of the Buddha. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-283925-1.
- he has crossed beyond existence.’