Aṅguttara Nikāya — The Numerical Discourses
Over 9,557 discourses grouped by number — Ones, Twos, Threes… up to Elevens.
1,410 texts · page 1 of 15 (texts 1–100)
AN 1.1–10: What Occupies the Mind
AN 1.11–20: Giving Up the Hindrances
AN 1.21–30: Useless
AN 1.31–40: Wild
AN 1.41–50: A Spike
AN 1.51–60: Finger-Snap
AN 1.61–70: Arousing Energy
AN 1.71–81: Good Friends
AN 1.82–97: Negligence
AN 1.98–139: Negligence (2nd)
AN 1.140–149: Not the Teaching
AN 1.150–169: Non-offense
AN 1.170–187: One Individual
AN 1.188–197: Chapter One
AN 1.198–208: Chapter Two
AN 1.209–218: Chapter Three
AN 1.219–234: Chapter Four
AN 1.235–247: Chapter Five
AN 1.248–257: Chapter Six
AN 1.258–267: Chapter Seven
AN 1.268–277: Chapter One
AN 1.278–286: Chapter Two
AN 1.287–295: Chapter Three
AN 1.296–305: Chapter One
AN 1.306–315: Chapter Two
AN 1.316–332: Chapter Three
AN 1.333–377: Chapter Four
AN 1.378–393: Inspiring Qualities
AN 1.394–574: Another Chapter on a Finger-Snap
AN 1.575–615: Mindfulness of the Body
AN 1.616–627: Freedom From Death
AN 2.1–10: Punishments
AN 2.11–20: Disciplinary Issues
AN 2.21–31: Fools
AN 2.32–41: Peaceful Mind
AN 2.42–51: Assemblies
AN 2.52–63: Individuals
AN 2.64–76: Happiness
AN 2.77–86: With a Foundation
AN 2.87–97: Two Things
AN 2.98–117: Fools
AN 2.118–129: Hopes That Are Hard to Give Up
AN 2.130–140: Aspiration
AN 2.141–150: Giving
AN 2.151–162: Welcome
AN 2.163–179: Attainment
AN 2.180–229: Abbreviated Texts Beginning With Anger
AN 2.230–279: Abbreviated Texts Beginning With the Unskillful
AN 2.280–309: Abbreviated Texts on Monastic Law
AN 2.310–479: Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed
AN 3.1: Perils
Fools are dangerous, but the wise are safe.
AN 3.2: Characteristics
Marks of a fool and an astute person: body, speech, and mind.
AN 3.3: Thinking
Marks of a fool and an astute person: thinking, speaking, and doing.
AN 3.4: Mistakes
Marks of a fool and an astute person: recognizing mistakes.
AN 3.5: Improper
Marks of a fool and an astute person: asking questions.
AN 3.6: Unskillful
Marks of a fool and an astute person: wholesome and unwholesome.
AN 3.7: Blameworthy
Marks of a fool and an astute person: blameworthy and blameless.
AN 3.8: Hurtful
Marks of a fool and an astute person: hurtful and kind.
AN 3.9: Broken
Marks of a fool and an astute person: keeping your mind healthy.
AN 3.10: Stains
Immorality, envy, and meanness determine rebirth.
AN 3.11: Well-known
What well-known mendicants should encourage.
AN 3.12: Commemoration
Places that should be commemorated by kings and mendicants.
AN 3.13: Hopes
People who are hopeless, hopeful, and have done away with hope.
AN 3.14: The Wheel-Turning Monarch
Wheel-turning Monarchs and Buddhas both rely on principle as authority.
AN 3.15: About Pacetana
Quality takes time: the parable of the chariot-maker.
AN 3.16: Unfailing
Practices that can’t fail.
AN 3.17: Hurting Yourself
Hurting yourself and others.
AN 3.18: The Realm of the Gods
Spiritual practice isn’t for rebirth in heaven.
AN 3.19: A Shopkeeper (1st)
Shopkeepers and mendicants both have to work hard.
AN 3.20: A Shopkeeper (2nd)
Shopkeepers and mendicants both have to be clever, responsible, and well supported.
AN 3.21: With Saviṭṭha
Of various individuals on the path, which is best?
AN 3.22: Patients
Healing the body, healing the mind. Everyone should be treated, even if they don’t recover.
AN 3.23: Choices
Hurtful or pleasing choices lead to hurtful or pleasing experiences in future lives.
AN 3.24: Very Helpful
Three people who are very helpful.
AN 3.25: Like Diamond
A mind like an open sore, like lightning, and like a diamond.
AN 3.26: Associates
You should associate with people who are equal or better than you.
AN 3.27: Offensive
Who to associate with, and who to shun.
AN 3.28: Speech like Dung
Speech like dung, like flowers, and like honey.
AN 3.29: Blind
Being spiritually blind, one-eyed, or with two eyes.
AN 3.30: Upside-down
How to make the wisdom of hearing Dharma last when the talk is over.
AN 3.31: With Divinity
Parents should be honored like Brahmā.
AN 3.32: With Ānanda
Could there be a state of convergence with no sense of self?
AN 3.33: With Sāriputta
Even the Buddha found it hard to get students to understand.
AN 3.34: Sources
Greed, hate, and delusion, and their opposites, are like seeds.
AN 3.35: With Hatthaka
The Buddha sleeps well, even on the cold, hard ground.
AN 3.36: Messengers of the Gods
The god of death questions us, but we are punished by our own deeds.
AN 3.37: The Four Great Kings (1st)
The gods rejoice when they see people practicing well.
AN 3.38: The Four Great Kings (2nd)
One should aspire to be like an awakened mendicant, not like Sakka.
AN 3.39: A Delicate Lifestyle
Siddhattha’s delicate upbringing.
AN 3.40: In Charge
Practicing with yourself in charge, or with others, or the teaching.
AN 3.41: Present
Factors in making good karma.
AN 3.42: Three Grounds
How to know a faithful person.
AN 3.43: Good Reasons
The advantages of teaching Dharma.
AN 3.44: When Conversation Flows
Teachers and audience should have understanding.
AN 3.45: Recommended by the Astute
Giving, going forth, and caring for parents are praised.
AN 3.46: Ethical
Villagers make good karma when good mendicants are there.
AN 3.47: Characteristics of the Conditioned
The difference between conditioned and unconditioned.
AN 3.48: The King of Mountains
A family is supported by their head, as a tree is supported by a mountain.
AN 3.49: Keen
Being keen in three ways.
AN 3.50: A Master Thief
Why a mendicant is like a thief.