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Anguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

The
Ones
The
Twos
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Threes
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Fours
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Fives
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Sixes
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Sevens
The
Eights
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Nines
The
Tens
The
Elevens

5: The Book of the Fives

317–1152.

Be gives the final number as 1151, but the sum total of suttas in this Ppeyyāla should be 850: five major sections, taken by ten modes of treatment direct knowledge, full understanding, etc. in relation to seventeen defilements lust, hatred, etc.. thus, starting at 303, the final number should be 1152. "Bhikkhus, for direct knowledge … for full understanding … for the utter destruction … for the abandoning … for the destruction … for the vanishing … for the fading away … for the cessation … for the giving up … for the relinquishment of hatred … of delusion … of anger … of hostility … of denigration … of insolence … of envy … of miserliness … of deceitfulness … of craftiness … of obstinacy … of vehemence … of conceit … of arrogance … of intoxication … of heedlessness, five things are to be developed. What five? The perception of unattractiveness … all five sets of five as above, down to … The power of faith, the power of energy, the power of mindfulness, the power of concentration, and the power of wisdom. For the relinquishment of heedlessness, these five things are to be developed."

This is what the Blessed One said. Elated, those bhikkhus delighted in the Blessed One's statement.

The Book of the Fives is finished.