Aṅguttara Nikāya — The Numerical Discourses – page 7
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AN 5.114: At Andhakavinda
Five qualities to instill in recently ordained mendicants.
AN 5.115: Stingy
Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
AN 5.116: Praise
Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
AN 5.117: Jealous
Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
AN 5.118: Having Wrong View
Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
AN 5.119: Wrong Speech
Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
AN 5.120: Wrong Effort
Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
AN 5.121: Sick
Five meditations recommended for sick mendicants.
AN 5.122: Mindfulness Well Established
Five meditations that lead to perfection or non-return.
AN 5.123: A Carer (1st)
Five qualities that make a patient hard to nurse.
AN 5.124: A Carer (2nd)
Five requirements that a carer or nurse should meet before looking after a patient.
AN 5.125: Longevity (1st)
Things that assist or impede longevity.
AN 5.126: Longevity (2nd)
Things that assist or impede longevity.
AN 5.127: Living Apart
Five factors that show whether a mendicant is ready to live apart from the Sangha.
AN 5.128: An Ascetic’s Happiness
Things that make an ascetic happy or unhappy.
AN 5.129: Fatal Wounds
Five deeds that condemn the perpetrator to hell.
AN 5.130: Loss
Worldly or moral losses and their consequences.
AN 5.131: Wielding Power (1st)
Five qualities by which a wheel-turning monarch rules justly, and five corresponding qualities by which the Buddha rolls the Wheel of Dhamma.
AN 5.132: Wielding Power (2nd)
Five qualities by which a wheel-turning monarch’s son rules justly, and five corresponding qualities by which Sāriputta keeps rolling the Wheel of Dhamma.
AN 5.133: A Principled King
Even a wheel-turning monarch has a king, as does the Buddha.
AN 5.134: In Whatever Region
A wheel-turning monarch always lives in his own realm, and so does a mendicant whose mind is freed.
AN 5.135: Aspiration (1st)
A wheel-turning monarch’s son aspires to kingship, as a mendicant aspires to awakening.
AN 5.136: Aspiration (2nd)
A wheel-turning monarch’s son aspires to be a viceroy, as a mendicant aspires to awakening.
AN 5.137: Little Sleep
Five people who sleep little.
AN 5.138: Eating Food
Even a clumsy royal elephant is considered to be a royal elephant, and so too even a clumsy mendicant is still a mendicant.
AN 5.139: Cannot Endure
A royal elephant who can’t endure sense impacts is unfit, and so too a mendicant.
AN 5.140: A Listener
A royal elephant with five factors is fit, and so too a mendicant.
AN 5.141: Scorn
Five people susceptible to various flaws.
AN 5.142: Transgression
Those who violate moral precepts may regret it or may not.
AN 5.143: At Sārandada
The Licchavis discuss the greatest treasures in the world. The Buddha, criticizing them for their fixation on sensual pleasures, suggests spiritual treasures.
AN 5.144: At Tikaṇḍakī
Five meditations that train a mendicant to shift their perception at will.
AN 5.145: Hell
Reasons one is cast down to hell or raised to heaven.
AN 5.146: A Friend
Don’t befriend a mendicant with five qualities; look instead for the five opposites.
AN 5.147: Gifts of an Untrue Person
Good and bad ways of offering gifts.
AN 5.148: Gifts of a True Person
The way a good person gives gifts and the outcome.
AN 5.149: Temporarily Free (1st)
A mendicant who has found only temporary freedom may decline for five reasons.
AN 5.150: Temporarily Free (2nd)
A mendicant who has found only temporary freedom may decline for five reasons.
AN 5.151: The Sure Path (1st)
Qualities that prevent one who is listening to the teaching from understanding.
AN 5.152: The Sure Path (2nd)
Qualities that prevent one who is listening to the teaching from understanding.
AN 5.153: The Sure Path (3rd)
Qualities that prevent one who is listening to the teaching from understanding.
AN 5.154: The Decline of the True Teaching (1st)
Things that lead to the decline or the prosperity of the Dhamma.
AN 5.155: The Decline of the True Teaching (2nd)
Things that lead to the decline or the prosperity of the Dhamma.
AN 5.156: The Decline of the True Teaching (3rd)
Things that lead to the decline or the prosperity of the Dhamma.
AN 5.157: Inappropriate Talk
Certain topics are inappropriate to discuss with certain kinds of people.
AN 5.158: Timidity
Confidence or lack thereof in mendicants is due to their practice.
AN 5.159: With Udāyī
When told Venerable Udāyī is teaching, the Buddha defines five factors that a Dhamma teacher should establish in themselves.
AN 5.160: Hard to Get Rid Of
Five things that are hard to dispel once they have arisen
AN 5.161: Getting Rid of Resentment (1st)
Five reflections to help eliminate resentment, in brief.
AN 5.162: Getting Rid of Resentment (2nd)
Five reflections to help eliminate resentment, an explanation by Sāriputta..
AN 5.163: Discussions
Qualifications for a mendicant to hold a Dhamma discussion.
AN 5.164: Sharing a Way of Life
Qualifications for a mendicant to share their way of life.
AN 5.165: Asking Questions
Sāriputta explains five reasons for asking a question, and the reason he asks a question.
AN 5.166: Cessation
Udāyī refuses to believe Sāriputta’s description of the achievements of an accomplished meditator. The Buddha dismisses Udāyī’s foolishness, and outlines the reasons senior mendicants should be respected.
AN 5.167: Accusation
Factors that a mendicant should establish in themselves before accusing another.
AN 5.168: Ethics
Lack of ethics prevents the attaining of samādhi, wisdom, and freedom.
AN 5.169: Quick-witted
Ānanda asks Sāriputta to explain what it means to be quick-witted, but Sāriputta gets Ānanda to explain it himself.
AN 5.170: With Bhaddaji
Ānanda asks Bhaddaji about the best sense objects, and corrects his answer.
AN 5.171: Timidity
Confidence or lack thereof in layfolk is due to their precepts.
AN 5.172: Assured
Confidence or lack thereof in layfolk is due to their precepts.
AN 5.173: Hell
Reasons one is cast down to hell or raised to heaven.
AN 5.174: Threats
Breaking of precepts is a threat and a danger.
AN 5.175: Corpse-worker
An outcaste is not born, but they make themselves an outcaste by their behavior.
AN 5.176: Rapture
The Buddha encourages Anāthapiṇḍika to not rest short with generosity, but to practice meditation too.
AN 5.177: Trades
Five kinds of trade that are wrong livelihood.
AN 5.178: Kings
Kings do not punish people for keeping precepts.
AN 5.179: A Layperson
Qualities possessing which a lay person may claim to be a stream-enterer.
AN 5.180: About Gavesī
The Buddha tells of the layman Gavesī in the time of Buddha Kassapa, and how he went forth with all his followers.
AN 5.181: Wilderness Dwellers
Different reasons why someone might dwell in the wilderness.
AN 5.182: Robes
Different reasons why someone might wear rag robes.
AN 5.183: Dwelling at the Root of a Tree
Different reasons why someone might dwell at the root of a tree.
AN 5.184: Charnel Ground Dwellers
Different reasons why someone might dwell in a charnel ground.
AN 5.185: Open Air Dwellers
Different reasons why someone might dwell in the open air.
AN 5.186: Those Who Never Lie Down
Different reasons why someone might never lie down.
AN 5.187: Those Who Sleep Wherever a Mat is Laid
Different reasons why someone might sleep wherever a mat is laid down.
AN 5.188: Those Who Eat in One Sitting
Different reasons why someone might eat once per day.
AN 5.189: Refusers of Late Food
Different reasons why someone might refuse food offered late.
AN 5.190: Those Who Eat Only From the Almsbowl
Different reasons why someone might eat only from their bowl.
AN 5.191: Hounds
Ancient traditions of the brahmins that are these days only seen among dogs.
AN 5.192: With the Brahmin Doṇa
The brahmin Doṇa accuses the Buddha of not respecting brahmins, so the Buddha responds by analyzing the different kinds of brahmin.
AN 5.193: With Saṅgārava
Saṅgārava the brahmin asks why memorized hymns are sometimes clear to the mind and sometimes not. The Buddha answers with the five hindrances.
AN 5.194: With Kāraṇapālī
The brahmins Kāraṇapālī and Piṅgiyānī extol the good qualities of the Buddha.
AN 5.195: Piṅgiyānī
During a visit by the Licchavis, the brahmin Piṅgiyānī utters a verse in praise of the Buddha.
AN 5.196: The Great Dreams
Before his awakening, the bodhisatta had five great dreams that foretold profound aspects of his awakening and dispensation.
AN 5.197: Obstacles to Rain
Weather forecasters remain ignorant of these five obstacles to rain.
AN 5.198: Well-Spoken Words
Five factors of good speech.
AN 5.199: Families
When a renunciate visits a family, they make merit on five bases.
AN 5.200: Elements of Escape
Five kinds of escape, showing how different aspects of suffering are escaped by different practices.
AN 5.201: With Kimbila
Things that lead to the long-lasting of the Dhamma after the Buddha’s death.
AN 5.202: Listening to the Teaching
Five benefits of listening to the teaching.
AN 5.203: A Thoroughbred
Factors that make a thoroughbred worthy of a king.
AN 5.204: Powers
Five spiritual powers.
AN 5.205: Hard-heartedness
Five kinds of emotional barrenness that can affect mendicants.
AN 5.206: Shackles
Five kinds of emotional shackle that can affect mendicants.
AN 5.207: Porridge
The five health benefits of eating porridge.
AN 5.208: Chew Sticks
The five health problems of not cleaning one’s teeth with chew sticks.
AN 5.209: The Sound of Singing
Why you shouldn’t recite Dhamma in an overly drawn-out singing style.
AN 5.210: Unmindful
Why you shouldn’t fall asleep unmindfully.
AN 5.211: An Abuser
Why a mendicant shouldn’t speak ill of their spiritual companions.
AN 5.212: Starting Fights
Why a mendicant shouldn’t start arguments.
AN 5.213: Ethics
Five drawbacks of failure in morality, and the corresponding benefits of the reverse.