{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.23/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.23","id":"suttacentral_an5.23","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.23/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these five corruptions of native gold. When native gold is corrupted by these it\u2019s not pliable, workable, or radiant, but is brittle and not completely ready for working. What five? Iron, copper, tin, lead, and silver. When native gold is corrupted by these five corruptions it\u2019s not pliable, workable, or radiant, but is brittle and not completely ready for working. But when native gold is free of these five corruptions it becomes pliable, workable, and radiant, not brittle, and ready to be worked. Then the goldsmith can successfully create any kind of ornament they want, whether a ring, earrings, a necklace, or a golden garland. In the same way, there are these five corruptions of the mind. When the mind is corrupted by these it\u2019s not pliable, workable, or radiant. It\u2019s brittle, and not rightly immersed in sam\u0101dhi for the ending of defilements. What five? Sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt. These are the five corruptions of the mind. When the mind is corrupted by these it\u2019s not pliable, workable, or radiant. It\u2019s brittle, and not rightly immersed in sam\u0101dhi for the ending of defilements. But when the mind is free of these five corruptions it\u2019s pliable, workable, and radiant. It\u2019s not brittle, and is rightly immersed in sam\u0101dhi for the ending of defilements. You extend your mind to realize by insight each and every thing that can be realized by insight; and you are capable of realizing those things, since each and every one is within range. If you wish: \u2018May I wield the many kinds of psychic power\u2014multiplying myself and becoming one again; materializing and dematerializing; going unobstructed through a wall, a rampart, or a mountain as if through space; diving in and out of the earth as if it were water; walking on water as if it were earth; flying cross-legged through the sky like a bird; touching and stroking with the hand the sun and moon, so mighty and powerful, controlling the body as far as the realm of divinity.\u2019 You\u2019re capable of realizing it, since each and every one is within range. If you wish: \u2018With clairaudience that is purified and superhuman, may I hear both kinds of sounds, human and heavenly, whether near or far.\u2019 You\u2019re capable of realizing it, since each and every one is within range. If you wish: \u2018May I understand the minds of other beings and individuals, having encompassed them with my mind. May I understand mind with greed as \u201cmind with greed\u201d, and mind without greed as \u201cmind without greed\u201d; mind with hate as \u201cmind with hate\u201d, and mind without hate as \u201cmind without hate\u201d; mind with delusion as \u201cmind with delusion\u201d, and mind without delusion as \u201cmind without delusion\u201d; constricted mind as \u201cconstricted mind\u201d, and scattered mind as \u201cscattered mind\u201d; expansive mind as \u201cexpansive mind\u201d, and unexpansive mind as \u201cunexpansive mind\u201d; mind that is not supreme as \u201cmind that is not supreme\u201d, and mind that is supreme as \u201cmind that is supreme\u201d; mind immersed in sam\u0101dhi as \u201cmind immersed in sam\u0101dhi\u201d, and mind not immersed in sam\u0101dhi as \u201cmind not immersed in sam\u0101dhi\u201d; freed mind as \u201cfreed mind\u201d, and unfreed mind as \u201cunfreed mind\u201d.\u2019 You\u2019re capable of realizing it, since each and every one is within range. If you wish: \u2018May I recollect many kinds of past lives. That is: one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand rebirths; many eons of the world contracting, many eons of the world expanding, many eons of the world contracting and expanding. May I remember: \u201cThere, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn somewhere else. There, too, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn here.\u201d May I recollect my many past lives, with features and details.\u2019 You\u2019re capable of realizing it, since each and every one is within range. If you wish: \u2018With clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, may I see sentient beings passing away and being reborn\u2014inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place\u2014and understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds: \u201cThese dear beings did bad things by way of body, speech, and mind. They denounced the noble ones; they had wrong view; and they chose to act out of that wrong view. When their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. These dear beings, however, did good things by way of body, speech, and mind. They never denounced the noble ones; they had right view; and they chose to act out of that right view. When their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.\u201d And so, with clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, may I see sentient beings passing away and being reborn\u2014inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place. And may I understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds.\u2019 You\u2019re capable of realizing it, since each and every one is within range. If you wish: \u2018May I realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom, and live having realized it with my own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\u2019 You\u2019re capable of realizing it, since each and every one is within range.\u201d","title":"Corruptions","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":968}