The Features needed to go beyond the sphere of Death (Attain Nibbana)

1. This Teaching is for one with few desires, not for one with many desires.

2. This Teaching is for one satisfied, not for one dissatisfied.

3. This Teaching is for the secluded, not for one attached to company.

4. This Teaching is for one with aroused effort, not for the lazy.

5. This Teaching is for one with established mindfulness, not for one without mindfulness

6. This Teaching is for the concentrated, not for the distracted.

7. This Teaching is for the wise, not for those lacking in wisdom.

8. This Teaching is for the non-worldly, for those not attached to worldliness.

* Anuruddha mahāvitakka sutta (AN) –– Great thoughts of ven. Anuruddha.

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The Five Rare jewels in the world

Once in Vesali near Sarandada monument, The Blessed One preached Licchavis the arising of five things (Jewels) that are rare in world. What five?

1. The arising of the Thus Gone One, worthy and rightfully enlightened is rare in the world.

2. Persons teaching the doctrine and discipline taught by the Thus Gone One are rare in the world.

3. Persons that understand the doctrine and discipline of the Thus Gone One when taught are rare in the world.

4. Persons that learn and understand the doctrine and discipline taught by the Thus Gone One and lead a life accordingly are rare in the world.

5. A person who shows gratitude is rare in the world.

*Aṅguttara Nikāya / Pañcakanipāta  / Tikaṇḍakīvaggo / Sārandada sutta

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The Five Factors to be developed for the destruction of desires/ Defilements (Asavas)

1. Seeing and contemplating the loathsomeness in the body (Asuba sanna),

2. Seeing and contemplating the loathsomeness in food (Aahare patickula sanna),

3. Disenchanted with all the world (Sabba loke anabhiratha sanna),

4. Seeing and contemplating the impermanence in all determinations (Anichcha sanna),

5.  Developing the perception of death thoroughly, established to him internally (Marana sanna),

When these five dhammas are developed and made much, it conduces to the destruction of desires.

Anguttara Nikaya – Panchaka Nipatha - Asavakkhaya Sutta.

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The Three Types of Dhamma Listeners according to the Anguttara Nikaya

(1). The topsy-turvy brained listener is one who pays no attention throughout the whole talk. He is compared to a pot that is overturned in which any water poured thereon runs off.

(2). The scatterbrained listener is one who pays attention throughout the whole talk but cannot be bothered to remember anything afterwards. It is like piling food and other things on this person's lap. When he rises from his seat, he scatters them all over the place through absentmindedness.

(3). The man of comprehensive mind is one who pays full attention throughout the talk and when he rises from his seat, he still remembers all that he has heard. He is compared to an upright pot, which accumulates all the water that is poured into it.

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