No Pali title given in the source, marked only by a tilde — Rāgapeyyāla, the twenty-ninth and final chapter of the Fives
Setting
None stated; the discourse continues from AN 5.1, whose setting at Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove is understood to hold
Speakers
The Buddha alone, addressing the mendicants
Form
AN 5.303's structure, one development-list swapped
Length
under 1 minute to read
Northern parallel
not identified in this collection
Difficulty
★☆☆☆☆ — short, the second of five parallel opening discourses
Why this discourse
The identical ‘insight into greed’ frame from AN 5.303, with a different five-item development list: the perceptions of impermanence, not-self, death, food's repulsiveness, and dissatisfaction with the whole world, already given in full at AN 5.62 as the paired variant of AN 5.61.
Reading guide
The second of five parallel discourses
AN 5.303 through AN 5.307 all share the identical opening and closing formula, ‘for insight into greed, five things should be developed’, varying only which five-item list fills the middle. This discourse supplies the second.
A list already met in full
Impermanence, not-self, death, food's repulsiveness, and dissatisfaction with the whole world — identical to AN 5.62, which itself was built by swapping two items out of AN 5.61's list.
Two lists, two chapters, one origin
This discourse and AN 5.303 draw their content from the same pair of Saññāvagga discourses that opened this project's seventh chapter, now repurposed under an entirely different organizing frame — insight into a specific defilement, rather than perception practice in general.
Why the source reuses whole discourses this way
Rather than composing five entirely new lists for this closing chapter, the source draws on material already established earlier in the same book, treating them as ready-made building blocks for its final combinatorial appendix.
What follows
AN 5.305 supplies a third development list — not a flat set of topics this time, but a progressive chain of five linked insights.
Key terms
aniccasaññā, anattasaññā — the perceptions of impermanence and not-self — the two items distinguishing this list from AN 5.303's, identical to AN 5.62.
maraṇasaññā — the perception of death — carried over unchanged from AN 5.303 and AN 5.61.
āhāre paṭikūlasaññā, sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā — the perceptions of food's repulsiveness and dissatisfaction with the whole world — also carried over unchanged.
rāgassa abhiññāya — “for insight into greed” — the identical frame shared by all five opening discourses of this chapter.
bhāvetabbā — “should be developed” — this chapter's recurring instruction verb, unchanged from AN 5.303.
The text
The discourse in full: a second five-item list, reframed as what should be developed for insight into greed. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
Five things to develop, for insight into greed
§1“For insight into greed, five things should be developed. What five? The perceptions of impermanence, not-self, death, repulsiveness of food, and dissatisfaction with the whole world. For insight into greed, these five things should be developed.”
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Self-check quiz
Ten questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 10
What five items does this discourse list?
Correct: A. Identical to AN 5.62's list.
Question 2 of 10
Where does this exact list already appear in full?
Correct: A. The Saññāvagga's second discourse, now repurposed under this chapter's frame.
Question 3 of 10
What frame does this discourse share with AN 5.303?
Correct: A. Identical opening and closing formula across AN 5.303–307.
Question 4 of 10
What does the guide say about why the source reuses whole discourses this way?
Correct: A. A deliberate compositional strategy for this kind of closing peyyāla.
Question 5 of 10
What kind of list does AN 5.305 supply next?
Correct: A. A structurally different kind of five-item list from the first two.
Question 6 of 10
What item from AN 5.303's list does this discourse drop?
Correct: A. Matching exactly how AN 5.62 was built from AN 5.61.
Question 7 of 10
What common source chapter do AN 5.303 and AN 5.304 both draw their lists from?
Correct: A. AN 5.61 and AN 5.62 specifically.
Question 8 of 10
What does 'aniccasaññā' mean?
Correct: A. One of the two items distinguishing this list from AN 5.303's.
Question 9 of 10
How many of this chapter's five opening discourses does this page represent?
Correct: A. AN 5.303–307 together establish all five development-lists this chapter cycles through.
Question 10 of 10
What verb governs this discourse's instruction, unchanged from AN 5.303?
Correct: A. This chapter's recurring central instruction.
