{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.20/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.20","id":"suttacentral_an10.20","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.20/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Kurus, near the Kuru town named Kamm\u0101sadamma. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants: \u201cThere are these ten abodes of the noble ones in which the noble ones of the past, present, and future abide. What ten? A mendicant has given up five factors, possesses six factors, has a single guard, has four supports, has cast aside idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth, has totally given up searching, has unsullied intentions, has stilled the physical process, and is well freed in mind and well freed by wisdom. And how has a mendicant given up five factors? It\u2019s when a mendicant has given up sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt. That\u2019s how a mendicant has given up five factors. And how does a mendicant possess six factors? It\u2019s when a mendicant, seeing a sight with their eyes, is neither happy nor sad. They remain equanimous, mindful and aware. Hearing a sound with their ears \u2026 Smelling an odor with their nose \u2026 Tasting a flavor with their tongue \u2026 Encountering a touch with their body \u2026 Knowing an idea with their mind, they\u2019re neither happy nor sad. They remain equanimous, mindful and aware. That\u2019s how a mendicant possesses six factors. And how does a mendicant have a single guard? It\u2019s when a mendicant\u2019s heart is guarded by mindfulness. That\u2019s how a mendicant has a single guard. And how does a mendicant have four supports? After appraisal, a mendicant uses some things, endures some things, avoids some things, and dispels some things. That\u2019s how a mendicant has four supports. And how has a mendicant cast aside idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth? Different ascetics and brahmins have different idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth. For example: the cosmos is eternal, or not eternal, or finite, or infinite; the soul and the body are one and the same, or the soul is one thing, the body another; after death, a realized one still exists, or no longer exists, or both still exists and no longer exists, or neither still exists nor no longer exists. A mendicant has cast out, cast aside, thrown out, discarded, let go of, given up, and relinquished all these. That\u2019s how a mendicant has cast aside idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth. And how has a mendicant totally given up searching? It\u2019s when they\u2019ve given up searching for sensual pleasures, for continued existence, and for a spiritual life. That\u2019s how a mendicant has totally given up searching. And how does a mendicant have unsullied intentions? It\u2019s when a mendicant has given up intentions of sensuality, malice, and cruelty. That\u2019s how a mendicant has unsullied intentions. And how has a mendicant stilled the physical process? It\u2019s when, with the giving up of pleasure and pain and the disappearance of former happiness and sadness, they enter and remain in the fourth absorption, without pleasure or pain, with pure equanimity and mindfulness. That\u2019s how a mendicant has stilled the physical process. And how is a mendicant well freed in mind? It\u2019s when a mendicant\u2019s mind is freed from greed, hate, and delusion. That\u2019s how a mendicant is well freed in mind. And how is a mendicant well freed by wisdom? It\u2019s when a mendicant understands: \u2018I\u2019ve given up greed, hate, and delusion, cut them off at the root, made them like a palm stump, obliterated them, so they\u2019re unable to arise in the future.\u2019 That\u2019s how a mendicant\u2019s mind is well freed by wisdom. Mendicants, whether in the past, future, or present, all noble ones abide in these same ten abodes of the noble ones. These are the ten abodes of the noble ones in which the noble ones of the past, present, and future abide.\u201d","title":"Abodes of the Noble Ones (2nd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":627}