{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.13/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.13","id":"suttacentral_an6.13","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.13/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these six elements of escape. What six? Take a mendicant who says: \u2018I\u2019ve developed the heart\u2019s release by love. I\u2019ve cultivated it, made it my vehicle and my basis, kept it up, consolidated it, and properly implemented it. Yet somehow ill will still occupies my mind.\u2019 They should be told, \u2018Not so, venerable! Don\u2019t say that. Don\u2019t misrepresent the Buddha, for misrepresentation of the Buddha is not good. And the Buddha would not say that. It\u2019s impossible, reverend, it cannot happen that the heart\u2019s release by love has been developed and properly implemented, yet somehow ill will still occupies the mind. For it is the heart\u2019s release by love that is the escape from ill will.\u2019 Take another mendicant who says: \u2018I\u2019ve developed the heart\u2019s release by compassion. I\u2019ve cultivated it, made it my vehicle and my basis, kept it up, consolidated it, and properly implemented it. Yet somehow the thought of harming still occupies my mind.\u2019 They should be told, \u2018Not so, venerable! \u2026 For it is the heart\u2019s release by compassion that is the escape from thoughts of harming.\u2019 Take another mendicant who says: \u2018I\u2019ve developed the heart\u2019s release by rejoicing. I\u2019ve cultivated it, made it my vehicle and my basis, kept it up, consolidated it, and properly implemented it. Yet somehow discontent still occupies my mind.\u2019 They should be told, \u2018Not so, venerable! \u2026 For it is the heart\u2019s release by rejoicing that is the escape from discontent.\u2019 Take another mendicant who says: \u2018I\u2019ve developed the heart\u2019s release by equanimity. I\u2019ve cultivated it, made it my vehicle and my basis, kept it up, consolidated it, and properly implemented it. Yet somehow desire still occupies my mind.\u2019 They should be told, \u2018Not so, venerable! \u2026 For it is the heart\u2019s release by equanimity that is the escape from desire.\u2019 Take another mendicant who says: \u2018I\u2019ve developed the signless release of the heart. I\u2019ve cultivated it, made it my vehicle and my basis, kept it up, consolidated it, and properly implemented it. Yet somehow my consciousness still follows after signs.\u2019 They should be told, \u2018Not so, venerable! \u2026 For it is the signless release of the heart that is the escape from all signs.\u2019 Take another mendicant who says: \u2018I\u2019m rid of the conceit \u201cI am\u201d. And I don\u2019t regard anything as \u201cI am this\u201d. Yet somehow the dart of doubt and indecision still occupies my mind.\u2019 They should be told, \u2018Not so, venerable! Don\u2019t say that. Don\u2019t misrepresent the Buddha, for misrepresentation of the Buddha is not good. And the Buddha would not say that. It\u2019s impossible, reverend, it cannot happen that the conceit \u201cI am\u201d has been done away with, and nothing is regarded as \u201cI am this\u201d, yet somehow the dart of doubt and indecision still occupies the mind. For it is the uprooting of the conceit \u201cI am\u201d that is the escape from the dart of doubt and indecision.\u2019 These are the six elements of escape.\u201d","title":"Elements of Escape","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":494}