Numbered Discourses 10.237

23. Abbreviated Texts Beginning With Greed

“For insight into greed, ten things should be developed. What ten? The perceptions of ugliness, death, repulsiveness of food, dissatisfaction with the whole world, impermanence, suffering in impermanence, and not-self in suffering, giving up, fading away, and cessation. For insight into greed, these ten things should be developed.”

“For insight into greed, ten things should be developed. What ten? The perceptions of impermanence, not-self, death, repulsiveness of food, dissatisfaction with the whole world, a skeleton, a worm-infested corpse, a livid corpse, a split open corpse, and a bloated corpse. For insight into greed, these ten things should be developed.”

“For insight into greed, ten things should be developed. What ten? Right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right samādhi, right knowledge, and right freedom. For insight into greed, these ten things should be developed.”

“For the complete understanding of greed … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go … these ten things should be developed.”

“Of hate … delusion … anger … hostility … disdain … contempt … jealousy … stinginess … deceitfulness … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … for the complete understanding of negligence … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go of negligence … these ten things should be developed.”

The Book of the Tens is finished.