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B0102041023rāgapeyyālaṃ (greed desire chapter)

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The Section on Lust Monks, for the direct knowledge of lust, ten qualities should be developed. Which ten? The perception of impurity, the perception of death, the perception of loathsomeness in food, the perception of non-delight in the whole world, the perception of impermanence, the perception of suffering in impermanence, the perception of non-self in suffering, the perception of abandoning, the perception of dispassion, the perception of cessation. Monks, for the direct knowledge of lust, these ten qualities should be developed. Monks, for the direct knowledge of lust, ten qualities should be developed. Which ten? The perception of impermanence, the perception of non-self, the perception of loathsomeness in food, the perception of non-delight in the whole world, the perception of bones, the perception of worms, the perception of a livid corpse, the perception of a festering corpse, the perception of a dismembered corpse, the perception of a bloated corpse. Monks, for the direct knowledge of lust, these ten qualities should be developed. Monks, for the direct knowledge of lust, ten qualities should be developed. Which ten? Right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, right knowledge, right liberation. Monks, for the direct knowledge of lust, these ten qualities should be developed. Monks, for the full understanding of lust, for its utter destruction, for its abandoning, for its destruction, for its fading away, for its dispassion, for its cessation, for its relinquishment, for its giving up, these ten qualities should be developed. For hatred, for delusion, for anger, for resentment, for denigration, for rivalry, for envy, for avarice, for hypocrisy, for deceit, for obstinacy, for presumption, for conceit, for arrogance, for intoxication, for heedlessness, for their full understanding, for their utter destruction, for their abandoning, for their destruction, for their fading away, for their dispassion, for their cessation, for their relinquishment, for their giving up, these ten qualities should be developed. Thus! The section on passion is concluded. The Pāli of the Book of Tens is finished.

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