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Abbreviated Texts Beginning With Greed

AN 9.93 Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st) ~

"For insight into greed, nine things should be developed. What nine? The 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. For insight into greed, these nine things should be developed."

AN 9.94 Untitled Discourse on Greed (2nd) ~

"For insight into greed, nine things should be developed. What nine? The first absorption, the second absorption, the third absorption, the fourth absorption, the dimension of infinite space, the dimension of infinite consciousness, the dimension of nothingness, the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, and the cessation of perception and feeling. For insight into greed, these nine things should be developed."

AN 9.95--112 Untitled Discourses on Greed ~

"For the complete understanding of greed ... complete ending ... giving up ... ending ... vanishing ... fading away ... cessation ... giving away ... letting go of greed ... these nine things should be developed."

AN 9.113--432 Untitled Discourses on Hate, Etc. ~

"For insight into hate ... delusion ... anger ... acrimony ... 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 ... ceasing ... giving away ... letting go of negligence ... these nine things should be developed."