The Book of Fives

Sutta 69

Extreme Satisfaction

I HEAR TELL:

"Beggars! These five things when made become, when made a big deal of, result in extreme satisfaction, dispassion, ending, settling down, higher knowledge, self-awakening, Nibbana.
What five?

Here a Beggar lives seeing the impure nature of the body;
the disgusting nature of food,
perceiving nothing to delight in in all the world,
sees the impermanent nature of all confounded things,
and perceiving that death applies to the internal.

Beggars! These five things when made become, when made a big deal of, result in extrame satisfaction, dispassion, ending, settling down, higher knowledge, self-awakening, Nibbana.