Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

1: The Book of the Ones

1. Obsession of the Mind - 1

1Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's Park. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: "Bhikkhus!"
"Venerable sir!" those bhikkhus replied. The Blessed One said this:

2"Bhikkhus, I do not see even one other form that so obsesses the mind [n.17] Here and elsewhere I render the Pāli idiom cittaṁ pariyādāya tiṭṭhati simply as "(it) obsesses the mind." Literally, it would be rendered "having overcome the mind, (it) remains (there)." of a man as the form of a woman. The form of a woman obsesses the mind of a man."

1Evaṁ me sutaṁ—​ ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. Tatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi: "bhikkhavo"ti. "Bhadante"ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ. Bhagavā etadavoca:

2"Nāhaṁ, bhikkhave, aññaṁ ekarūpampi samanupassāmi yaṁ evaṁ purisassa cittaṁ pariyādāya tiṭṭhati yathayidaṁ, bhikkhave, itthirūpaṁ. Itthirūpaṁ, bhikkhave, purisassa cittaṁ pariyādāya tiṭṭhatī"ti.


Paṭhamaṁ.

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