{"id":"an5.12","title":"Peak","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.12","title":"Peak","units":[{"id":"an5.12:0","sourceIds":["an5.12:0.1","an5.12:0.2","an5.12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.12\n2. Balavagga\nKūṭasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.12\n2. Powers\nPeak"}},{"id":"an5.12:1","sourceIds":["an5.12:1.1","an5.12:1.2","an5.12:1.3","an5.12:1.4","an5.12:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, sekhabalāni.\nKatamāni pañca?\nSaddhābalaṁ, hirībalaṁ, ottappabalaṁ, vīriyabalaṁ, paññābalaṁ—\nimāni kho, bhikkhave, pañca sekhabalāni.\nImesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ sekhabalānaṁ etaṁ aggaṁ etaṁ saṅgāhikaṁ etaṁ saṅghātaniyaṁ, yadidaṁ paññābalaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these five powers of a trainee.\nWhat five?\nThe powers of faith, conscience, prudence, energy, and wisdom.\nThese are the five powers of a trainee.\nOf these five powers of a trainee, the power of wisdom is the chief. It holds and binds everything together."}},{"id":"an5.12:2","sourceIds":["an5.12:2.1","an5.12:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, kūṭāgārassa etaṁ aggaṁ etaṁ saṅgāhikaṁ etaṁ saṅghātaniyaṁ, yadidaṁ kūṭaṁ.\nEvamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, imesaṁ pañcannaṁ sekhabalānaṁ etaṁ aggaṁ etaṁ saṅgāhikaṁ etaṁ saṅghātaniyaṁ, yadidaṁ paññābalaṁ.","en":"It’s like a bungalow. The roof-peak is the chief point, which holds and binds everything together.\nIn the same way, of these five powers of a trainee, the power of wisdom is the chief. It holds and binds everything together."}},{"id":"an5.12:3","sourceIds":["an5.12:3.1","an5.12:3.2","an5.12:3.3","an5.12:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, evaṁ sikkhitabbaṁ:\n‘saddhābalena samannāgatā bhavissāma sekhabalena, hirībalena … ottappabalena … vīriyabalena … paññābalena samannāgatā bhavissāma sekhabalenā’ti.\nEvañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"So you should train like this:\n‘We will have the trainee’s powers of faith, conscience, prudence, energy, and wisdom.’\nThat’s how you should train.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.12/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}