{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an9.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an9.1","id":"suttacentral_an9.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants: \u201cMendicants, if wanderers of other religions were to ask: \u2018Reverends, what is the vital condition for the development of the qualities on the same side as awakening?\u2019 How would you answer them?\u201d \u201cOur teachings are rooted in the Buddha. \u2026 The mendicants will listen and remember it.\u201d \u201cWell then, mendicants, listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, if wanderers of other religions were to ask: \u2018Reverends, what is the vital condition for the development of the qualities on the same side as awakening?\u2019 You should answer them: \u2018It\u2019s when a mendicant has good friends, companions, and associates. This is the first vital condition for the development of the awakening factors. Furthermore, a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they\u2019ve undertaken. This is the second vital condition for the development of the qualities on the same side as awakening. Furthermore, a mendicant gets to take part in talk about self-effacement that helps open the heart, when they want, without trouble or difficulty. That is, talk about fewness of wishes, contentment, seclusion, aloofness, arousing energy, ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom. This is the third vital condition for the development of the qualities on the same side as awakening. Furthermore, a mendicant lives with energy roused up for giving up unskillful qualities and embracing skillful qualities. They are strong, staunchly vigorous, not slacking off when it comes to developing skillful qualities. This is the fourth vital condition for the development of the qualities on the same side as awakening. Furthermore, a mendicant is wise. They have the wisdom of arising and passing away which is noble, penetrative, and leads to the complete ending of suffering. This is the fifth vital condition for the development of the qualities on the same side as awakening.\u2019 A mendicant with good friends, companions, and associates can expect to be ethical \u2026 A mendicant with good friends, companions, and associates can expect to take part in talk about self-effacement that helps open the heart \u2026 A mendicant with good friends, companions, and associates can expect to live with energy roused up \u2026 A mendicant with good friends, companions, and associates can expect to be wise \u2026 But then, a mendicant grounded on these five things should develop four further things. They should develop the perception of ugliness to give up greed, love to give up hate, mindfulness of breathing to cut off thinking, and perception of impermanence to uproot the conceit \u2018I am\u2019. When you perceive impermanence, the perception of not-self becomes stabilized. Perceiving not-self, you uproot the conceit \u2018I am\u2019 and attain extinguishment in this very life.\u201d","title":"Awakening","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":493}