9.
The First Discourse on That Meditative Absorption
73.
"Monks, without abandoning six qualities, one is incapable of entering and dwelling in the first meditative absorption.
Which six?
Sensual desire, anger, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, sceptical doubt.
And the danger in sensual pleasures is not well seen by him as it really is with right wisdom.
Monks, without abandoning these six qualities, one is incapable of entering and dwelling in the first meditative absorption.
"Monks, by abandoning six qualities, one is capable of entering and dwelling in the first meditative absorption. Which six? Sensual desire, anger, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, sceptical doubt, and the danger in sensual pleasures is not well seen by him as it really is with right wisdom. Monks, by abandoning these six qualities, one is capable of entering and dwelling in the first meditative absorption." The ninth.