4.
Consecutive Repetitions on Lust
502.
"Monks, for the direct knowledge of lust, eleven qualities are to be developed.
What are the eleven?
The first meditative absorption, the second meditative absorption, the third meditative absorption, the fourth meditative absorption, the liberation of mind through friendliness, the liberation of mind through compassion, the liberation of mind through altruistic joy, the liberation of mind through equanimity, the plane of infinite space, the plane of infinite consciousness, the plane of nothingness -
Monks, for the direct knowledge of lust, these eleven qualities are to be developed.
503-511.
"Monks, for the full understanding of lust...
for the utter elimination...
for the abandoning...
for the elimination...
for the passing away...
for the dispassion...
for the cessation...
for the giving up...
for the relinquishment...
these eleven qualities are to be developed.
512-671.
"Of hate... etc.
of delusion...
of wrath...
of hostility...
of contempt...
of insolence...
of envy...
of stinginess...
of deceit...
of fraudulence...
of obstinacy...
of rivalry...
of conceit...
of arrogance...
of vanity...
for the direct knowledge of negligence... etc.
for the full understanding...
for the utter elimination...
for the abandoning...
for the elimination...
for the passing away...
for the dispassion...
for the cessation...
for the giving up...
for the relinquishment, these eleven qualities are to be developed."
This is what the Blessed One said. Those monks, delighted, rejoiced in what the Blessed One had said.
The Repetition Series on Lust is concluded.
Fifty-seven discourses, connected with the Aṅguttara.
The Book of the Elevens is concluded.
The Aṅguttara Nikāya is complete.