{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.25/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.25","id":"suttacentral_an6.25","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.25/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these six topics for recollection. What six? Firstly, a noble disciple recollects the Realized One: \u2018That Blessed One is perfected, a fully awakened Buddha, accomplished in knowledge and conduct, holy, knower of the world, supreme guide for those fit for training, teacher of gods and humans, awakened, blessed.\u2019 When a noble disciple recollects the Realized One their mind is not full of greed, hate, and delusion. At that time their mind is quite unswerving. They\u2019ve left behind greed; they\u2019re free of it and have risen above it. \u2018Greed\u2019 is a term for the five kinds of sensual stimulation. Relying on this, some sentient beings are purified in this way. Furthermore, a noble disciple recollects the teaching: \u2018The teaching is well explained by the Buddha\u2014apparent in the present life, immediately effective, inviting inspection, relevant, so that sensible people can know it for themselves.\u2019 When a noble disciple recollects the teaching their mind is not full of greed, hate, and delusion. \u2026 Furthermore, a noble disciple recollects the Sa\u1e45gha: \u2018The Sa\u1e45gha of the Buddha\u2019s disciples is practicing the way that\u2019s good, direct, systematic, and proper. It consists of the four pairs, the eight individual persons. This is the Sa\u1e45gha of the Buddha\u2019s disciples that is worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods, worthy of hospitality, worthy of a religious donation, worthy of greeting with cupped palms, and is the supreme field of merit for the world.\u2019 When a noble disciple recollects the Sa\u1e45gha their mind is not full of greed, hate, and delusion. \u2026 Furthermore, a noble disciple recollects their own ethical precepts, which are intact, impeccable, spotless, and unmarred, liberating, praised by sensible people, not mistaken, and leading to immersion. When a noble disciple recollects their ethical precepts their mind is not full of greed, hate, and delusion. \u2026 Furthermore, a noble disciple recollects their generosity: \u2018I\u2019m so fortunate, so very fortunate! Among people full of the stain of stinginess I live at home with heart rid of the stain of stinginess, freely generous, open-handed, loving to let go, committed to charity, loving to give and to share.\u2019 When a noble disciple recollects their generosity their mind is not full of greed, hate, and delusion. \u2026 Furthermore, a noble disciple recollects the deities: \u2018There are the gods of the four great kings, the gods of the thirty-three, the gods of Yama, the joyful gods, the gods who love to create, the gods who control what is created by others, the gods of the Divinity\u2019s host, and gods even higher than these. When those deities passed away from here, they were reborn there because of their faith, ethics, learning, generosity, and wisdom. I, too, have the same kind of faith, ethics, learning, generosity, and wisdom.\u2019 When a noble disciple recollects the faith, ethics, learning, generosity, and wisdom of both themselves and the deities their mind is not full of greed, hate, and delusion. At that time their mind is quite unswerving. They\u2019ve left behind greed; they\u2019re free of it and have risen above it. \u2018Greed\u2019 is a term for the five kinds of sensual stimulation. Relying on this, some sentient beings are purified in this way. These are the six topics for recollection.\u201d","title":"Topics for Recollection","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":534}