AN 3.183–352Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed
Pāli / Sanskrit:Rāgapeyyāla
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Numbered Discourses 3 The Chapter on Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed
Untitled Discourses on Greed, Etc.
“For insight into greed, three things should be developed. What three? Emptiness immersion; signless immersion; and undirected immersion. For insight into greed, these three things should be developed.
For the complete understanding of greed … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go …
hate … delusion … anger … acrimony … disdain … contempt … jealousy … stinginess … deceitfulness … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … negligence … insight … complete understanding … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … For the letting go of negligence, these three things should be developed.”
That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, the mendicants approved what the Buddha said.
The Book of the Threes is finished.
The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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