23. Rāgapeyyālaṃ | 10 | Aṅguttara

Aṅguttara Nikāya

23. Rāgapeyyālaṃ
III. Lust and So Forth Repetition Series

237 (1)

Bhikkhus, for direct knowledge of lust, 10 things are to be developed. What 10?

1) The perception of unattractiveness,
2) the perception of death,
3) the perception of the repulsiveness of food,
4) the perception of non-delight in the entire world,
5) the perception of impermanence,
6) the perception of suffering in the impermanent,
7) the perception of non-self in what is suffering,
8) the perception of abandoning,
9) the perception of dispassion, and
10) the perception of cessation.

- For direct knowledge of lust, these 10 things are to be developed.

238 (2)

Bhikkhus, for direct knowledge of lust, 10 things are to be developed. What 10?

1) The perception of impermanence,
2) the perception of non-self,
3) the perception of the repulsiveness of food,
4) the perception of non-delight in the entire world,
5) the perception of a skeleton,
6) the perception of a worm-infested corpse,
7) the perception of a livid corpse,
8) the perception of a festering corpse,
9) the perception of a fissured corpse, and
10) the perception of a bloated corpse.

- For direct knowledge of lust, these 10 things are to be developed.

239 (3)

Bhikkhus, for direct knowledge of lust, 10 things are to be developed. What 10?

1) Right view,
2) right intention,
3) right speech,
4) right action,
5) right livelihood,
6) right effort,
7) right mindfulness,
8) right concentration,
9) right knowledge, and
10) right liberation.

- For direct knowledge of lust, these 10 things are to be developed.

240 (4)–266 (30)

Bhikkhus, for full understanding of lust ...

for the utter destruction ...for the abandoning ...for the destruction ...for the vanishing ...for the fading away ...for the cessation ...for the giving up ...for the relinquishment of lust ...

- these 10 things are to be developed.

267 (31)-746 (510)

Bhikkhus, for direct knowledge ...

for full understanding ...for the utter destruction ...for the abandoning ...for the destruction ...for the vanishing ...for the fading away ...for the cessation . . . for the giving up ...

for the relinquishment of hatred ...

of delusion ...of anger ...of hostility ...of denigration ...of insolence ...of envy ...of miserliness ...of deceitfulness ...of craftiness ...of obstinacy ...of vehemence ...of conceit ...of arrogance … of intoxication ...of heedlessness ...

- these 10 things are to be developed.

This is what the Blessed One said.
Elated, those Bhikkhus delighted in the Blessed One’s statement.

The Book of the Tens is finished.