Numbered Discourses 11.982

The First Fifty

Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed

“For insight into greed, eleven things should be developed. What eleven? The first, second, third, and fourth jhānas; the heart’s releases by love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity; the dimensions of infinite space, infinite consciousness, and nothingness. For insight into greed, these eleven things should be developed.”

“For the complete understanding of greed … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go … these eleven things should be developed.”

“Of hate … delusion … anger … hostility … disdain … contempt … jealousy … stinginess … deceitfulness … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … for insight into negligence … complete understanding … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … For the letting go of negligence, these eleven things should be developed.”

That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, the bhikkhus approved what the Buddha said.

The Book of the Elevens is finished.

The Numbered Discourses are completed.