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6. Aññ± sutta
Discourse on Arahatship

     402. Bhikkhus, there are these Four Methods of Steadfast Mindfulness. What are these four? Bhikkhus, in this Teaching, the bhikkhu keeps his mind steadfastly on the body, with diligence, comprehension and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and distress in the five khandhas ...p... on Sensation ...p... on Mind ...p... on Mind-Objects, with diligence, comprehension and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and distress in the five khandhas. These, bhikkhus, are the Four Methods of Steadfast Mindfulness. By cultivating these Four Methods of Steadfast Mindfulness and practising them many times, one of two results is to be certainly expected: Arahatship (Aññ±, the knowledge of final emancipation. Arahatta phala) in this very life, or if there yet be any trace of Clinging left, the state of an An±gami (the State of Nonreturn to the world of sense-existence, An±gami phala).

End of the Aññ± Sutta,

the sixth in this Vagga.

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