{"id":"an9.16","title":"Perceptions","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an9.16","title":"Perceptions","units":[{"id":"an9.16:0","sourceIds":["an9.16:0.1","an9.16:0.2","an9.16:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 9.16\n2. Sīhanādavagga\nSaññāsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 9.16\n2. The Lion’s Roar\nPerceptions"}},{"id":"an9.16:1","sourceIds":["an9.16:1.1","an9.16:1.2","an9.16:1.3","an9.16:1.4","an9.16:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Navayimā, bhikkhave, saññā bhāvitā bahulīkatā mahapphalā honti mahānisaṁsā amatogadhā amatapariyosānā.\nKatamā nava?\nAsubhasaññā, maraṇasaññā, āhāre paṭikūlasaññā, sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā, aniccasaññā, anicce dukkhasaññā, dukkhe anattasaññā, pahānasaññā, virāgasaññā—\nimā kho, bhikkhave, nava saññā, bhāvitā bahulīkatā mahapphalā honti mahānisaṁsā amatogadhā amatapariyosānā”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, these nine perceptions, when developed and cultivated, are very fruitful and beneficial. Their objective and culmination is freedom from death.\nWhat nine?\nThe perceptions of ugliness, death, repulsiveness of food, dissatisfaction with the whole world, impermanence, suffering in impermanence, not-self in suffering, giving up, and fading away.\nThese nine perceptions, when developed and cultivated, are very fruitful and beneficial. Their objective and culmination is freedom from death.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.16/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."}