Aṅguttara Nikāya

The Aṅguttara Nikāya (literally "Increased by One Collection," also translated "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.

Quotes

 * A lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.
 * Vanijja Sutta, Anguttara Nikāya 5.177, as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu


 * ‘Gain and loss, renown and disgrace,
 * criticism and praise, happiness and unhappiness—
 * These qualities are impermanent in human life,
 * inconstant, liable to change.
 * But, mindful, the sage knows them;
 * he observes how they are liable to change.
 * Desirable things do not upset his mind,
 * nor is there resistance to the undesirable;
 * His likes and dislikes have vanished,
 * gone away, and exist no more.
 * Having known the place that is stainless, free of grief,
 * he has crossed beyond existence.’
 * From the Section of Eights: "Worldly Qualities" (A IV 157–160), p. 265 in