AN9.27 — First Discourse on Hostility
Then the householder Anathapindika approached the Blessed One; having approached, he paid homage to the Blessed One and sat down to one side. While sitting to one side, the Blessed One said to the householder Anathapindika:
When the noble disciple has calmed five fears and hostilities, and is endowed with the four factors of stream-entry, he could, if he wished, declare of himself: I am one who has destroyed hell, the animal realm, the realm of ghosts, the state of misery, the bad destinations, the lower realms. I am a stream-enterer, not subject to downfall, assured, bound for full enlightenment.
What are the five fears and hostilities that are calmed?
Householder, when one kills living beings, due to killing living beings, one generates fear and hostility in this life, and fear and hostility in the next life, and experiences mental suffering and distress. But when one abstains from killing living beings, one does not generate fear and hostility in this life, nor in the next life, nor does one experience mental suffering and distress.
In this way, for one who abstains from killing living beings, that fear and hostility is calmed.
Similarly when one takes what is not given...
engages in sexual misconduct...
speaks falsehoods...
indulges in intoxicants, due to indulging in intoxicants, one generates fear and hostility in this life, and fear and hostility in the next life, and experiences mental suffering and distress. But when one abstains from indulging in intoxicants, one does not generate fear and hostility in this life, nor in the next life, nor does one experience mental suffering and distress.
In this way, for one who abstains from indulging in intoxicants, that fear and hostility is calmed.
These are the five fears and hostilities that are calmed.
With what four factors of stream-entry is one endowed?
Here the noble disciple is endowed with unwavering confidence in the Buddha: The Blessed One is an Arahant, perfectly enlightened, accomplished in true knowing and conduct, fortunate, knower of the worlds, unsurpassed leader of persons to be tamed, teacher of gods and humans, the Enlightened One, the Blessed One.
Endowed with unwavering confidence in the Dhamma: The Dhamma is well expounded by the Blessed One, directly visible, immediate, inviting one to come and see, applicable, to be personally experienced by the wise.
Endowed with unwavering confidence in the Sangha...
The community of disciples of the Blessed One is well-practiced, the community of disciples of the Blessed One is uprightly practiced, the community of disciples of the Blessed One is rightly practiced, the community of disciples of the Blessed One is properly practiced; namely, the four pairs of persons, the eight types of individuals, this community of disciples of the Blessed One is worthy of offerings, worthy of hospitality, worthy of gifts, worthy of reverential salutation, the unsurpassed field of merit for the world.
He is endowed with virtues dear to the noble ones, unbroken, untorn, unblemished, unspotted, liberating, praised by the wise, not misapprehended, conducive to concentration.
He is endowed with these four factors of stream-entry.
When the noble disciple has calmed these five fears and hostilities, and is endowed with these four factors of stream-entry, he could, if he wished, declare of himself: I am one who has destroyed hell, destroyed the animal realm, destroyed the realm of ghosts, destroyed the plane of misery, the bad destinations, the lower realms; I am a stream-enterer, not subject to downfall, assured, bound for full enlightenment.