The Chapter on If You Want

Collections of Numbered Discourses

Collections of 'numbered' or 'numerical' discourses and other related texts.

Ākaṅkhasutta

AN 10.71
One Might Wish

If a mendicant wishes to attain spiritual heights, they should begin by practicing the code of training rules.

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Kaṇṭakasutta

AN 10.72
Thorns

When the Buddha receives noisy visitors, several monks withdraw to a nearby forest to meditate. The Buddha praises them, saying that noise is a thorn to absorption.

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Iṭṭhadhammasutta

AN 10.73
Likable

Ten desirable things that are hard to get.

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Vaḍḍhisutta

AN 10.74
Growth

Ten aspects of prosperity.

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Migasālāsutta

AN 10.75
With Migasālā

The female lay disciple Migasālā questions Ānanda how the Buddha could have declared her father and her uncle had the same level of spiritual attainment, when one was much more strict than the other. Ānanda conveys this to the Buddha, who responds that only such as he can pass judgment, since the spiritual faculties of individuals are complex and hard to understand.

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Tayodhammasutta

AN 10.76
Three Things

Without rebirth, old age, and death, there would be no teaching of Dhamma. The Buddha teaches a series of sets of three things leading to liberation.

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Kākasutta

AN 10.77
A Crow

A bad monk has ten bad qualities, like a crow.

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Nigaṇṭhasutta

AN 10.78
Jains

Jain ascetics have ten bad qualities.

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Āghātavatthusutta

AN 10.79
Grounds for Resentment

Ten ground for resentment.

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Āghātapaṭivinayasutta

AN 10.80
Getting Rid of Resentment

Ten ways of removing resentment.

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