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Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

2: The Book of the Twos

6. Fetters

1“There are, mendicants, these two things. What two? Seeing things that are prone to being fettered as gratifying, and seeing things that are prone to being fettered as boring. When you keep seeing things that are prone to being fettered as gratifying, you don’t give up greed, hate, and delusion. When these are not given up, you’re not freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. You’re not freed from suffering, I say.

2When you keep seeing things that are prone to being fettered as boring, you give up greed, hate, and delusion. When these are given up, you’re freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. You’re freed from suffering, I say. These are the two things.”

1"Dveme, bhikkhave, dhammā. Katame dve? Yā ca saṁyojaniyesu dhammesu assādānupassitā, yā ca saṁyojaniyesu dhammesu nibbidānupassitā. Saṁyojaniyesu, bhikkhave, dhammesu assādānupassī viharanto rāgaṁ na pajahati, dosaṁ na pajahati, mohaṁ na pajahati. Rāgaṁ appahāya, dosaṁ appahāya, mohaṁ appahāya na parimuccati jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi. Na parimuccati dukkhasmāti vadāmi.

2Saṁyojaniyesu, bhikkhave, dhammesu nibbidānupassī viharanto rāgaṁ pajahati, dosaṁ pajahati, mohaṁ pajahati. Rāgaṁ pahāya, dosaṁ pahāya, mohaṁ pahāya, parimuccati jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi. Parimuccati dukkhasmāti vadāmi. Ime kho, bhikkhave, dve dhammā"ti.

Chaṭṭhaṁ.