AN10.2 — Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.2
1. Benefits
Intention
Disciples, for an ethical person, accomplished in ethics, there is no need to make an intention:
‘May freedom from remorse arise in me.
It is the nature of things that freedom from remorse arises for an ethical person accomplished in ethics.
For one free from remorse there is no need to make an intention:
‘May joy arise in me.
It is the nature of things that joy arises for one free from remorse.
For one who is joyful there is no need to make an intention:
‘May pīti arise in me.
It is the nature of things that pīti arises for one who is joyful.
For one with a rapturous mind there is no need to make an intention:
‘May my body become tranquil.
It is the nature of things that the body becomes tranquil for one with a rapturous mind.
For one with a tranquil body there is no need to make an intention:
‘May I feel happiness.
It is the nature of things that one with a tranquil body feels happiness.
For one who is happy there is no need to make an intention:
‘May my mind become immersed in samādhi.
It is the nature of things that the mind of one who is happy becomes immersed in samādhi.
For one who is immersed in samādhi there is no need to make an intention:
‘May I know and see things as they truly are.
It is the nature of things that one who is immersed in samādhi knows and sees things as they truly are.
For one who knows and sees things as they truly are there is no need to make an intention:
‘May I experience disillusionment and dispassion.
It is the nature of things that one who knows and sees things as they truly are experiences disillusionment and dispassion.
For one who is disillusioned and dispassionate there is no need to make an intention:
‘May I realize the knowing and vision of liberation.
It is the nature of things that one who is disillusioned and dispassionate realizes the knowing and vision of liberation.
And so disillusionment and dispassion have the knowing and vision of liberation as their purpose and benefit;
knowing and seeing things as they truly are has disillusionment and dispassion as its purpose and benefit;
samādhi has knowing and seeing things as they truly are as its purpose and benefit;
happiness has samādhi as its purpose and benefit;
tranquility has happiness as its purpose and benefit;
pīti has tranquility as its purpose and benefit;
joy has pīti as its purpose and benefit;
freedom from remorse has joy as its purpose and benefit;
skillful ethics have freedom from remorse as their purpose and benefit.
And so qualities flow into qualities, qualities fulfill qualities, for going from the near shore to the far shore.
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