EĀ 32.1
Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含经
Chapter 32 善聚品第三十二
32.1 （一）善
Parallel to: AN 5.2
Thus have I heard: | 闻如是： |
At one time, the Buddha was at Anāthapiṇḍada's Park in the Jeta Grove near Śrāvastī. | 一时，佛在舍卫国祇树给孤独园。 |
At that time, the World-Honored One told the bhikṣus, "I will now explain the good aggregates. You should all contemplate them well." | 尔时，世尊告诸比丘：「我今当说善聚，汝等善思念之。」 |
The bhikṣus replied, "Yes, World-Honored One!" The bhikṣus received the Buddha's instruction. | 诸比丘对曰：「如是。世尊！」诸比丘从佛受教。 |
The World-Honored One said, "What are called the good aggregates? They are the five faculties. What are the five? They are the faculty of faith, the faculty of diligence, the faculty of mindfulness, the faculty of concentration, and the faculty of wisdom. These are called the five faculties. If a bhikṣu cultivates the five faculties, he will attain the state of a stream-enterer, will not regress, and will surely attain the path. Further advancing in practice, he will attain the state of a once-returner, and will come to this world to end suffering. Further advancing in the path, he will attain the state of a non-returner, will not return to this world, and will attain parinirvāṇa. Further advancing in practice, he will exhaust the taints, attain the absence of taints, be liberated in mind and wisdom, realize it for himself, and play in it: 'Birth is exhausted, the holy life has been established, what was to be done has been done, there will be no more of this state of existence.' He knows it as it really is. | 世尊告曰：「彼云何名为善聚？所谓五根是也。云何为五？所谓信根、精进根、念根、定根、慧根。是谓，比丘！有此五根。若有比丘修行五根者，便成须陀洹，得不退转法，必成至道；转进其行成斯陀含，而来此世尽其苦际；转进其道成阿那含，不复来此世，即复取般涅槃；转进其行，有漏尽，成无漏，心解脱、智慧解脱，自身作证而自游戏：生死已尽，梵行已立，所作已办，更不复受胎，如实知之。 |
"The so-called good aggregates are the five faculties. Because they are the greatest aggregate, the most excellent among all aggregates. If one does not practice this Dharma, one cannot attain the states of a stream-enterer, once-returner, non-returner, arhat, pratyekabuddha, or the Tathāgata, Arhat, Perfectly Enlightened One. If one attains these five faculties, one will have the four fruits and the path of the three vehicles. The so-called good aggregates are the supreme among these five faculties. Therefore, bhikṣus! You should seek means to practice these five faculties. Thus, bhikṣus! You should train in this way." | 「言善聚者，即五根是也。所以然者，此最大聚，众聚中妙。若不行此法者，则不成须陀洹、斯陀含、阿那含、阿罗汉、辟支佛，及如来、至真、等正觉也。若得此五根者，便有四果、三乘之道。言善聚者，此五根为上。是故，诸比丘！当求方便，行此五根。如是，诸比丘！当作是学。」 |
At that time, the bhikṣus, having heard the Buddha's teaching, joyfully received and upheld it. | 尔时，诸比丘闻佛所说，欢喜奉行。 |
Translated from Chinese using Gemma-2-Mitra (Buddhist-NLP).
This is the classical Chinese root text of Ekottarāgama, a parallel to the Pali sutta(s) listed above. Source: CBETA (Taishō edition).