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AN 7.12PTS AN 4.9Anusaya 21 min read

Underlying Tendencies (2nd)

Dutiyaanusayasutta

The purpose of the spiritual life is to give up the underlying tendencies of sensual desire, repulsion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.12Numbered Discourses 7.12
  • 0.22. Anusayavagga2. Tendencies

0.3DutiyaanusayasuttaUnderlying Tendencies (2nd)

1.1“Sattannaṁ, bhikkhave, anusayānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.“Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven underlying tendencies.1.2Katamesaṁ sattannaṁ?What seven?1.3Kāmarāgānusayassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati, paṭighānusayassa …pe…The underlying tendencies of sensual desire, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.1.4diṭṭhānusayassa …1.5vicikicchānusayassa …1.6mānānusayassa …1.7bhavarāgānusayassa …1.8avijjānusayassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.1.9Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sattannaṁ anusayānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven underlying tendencies.

2.1Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kāmarāgānusayo pahīno hoti ucchinnamūlo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo.When a mendicant has given up the underlying tendencies of sensual desire, repulsion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance—cut them off at the root, made them like a palm stump, obliterated them, so they are unable to arise in the future—2.2Paṭighānusayo …pe…2.3diṭṭhānusayo …2.4vicikicchānusayo …2.5mānānusayo …2.6bhavarāgānusayo …2.7avijjānusayo pahīno hoti ucchinnamūlo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo.2.8Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhikkhu acchecchi taṇhaṁ, vivattayi saṁyojanaṁ, sammā mānābhisamayā antamakāsi dukkhassā”ti.they’re called a mendicant who has cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering.”

2.9Dutiyaṁ.