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 5.306's identical five items, renamed from faculties to powers
Length
under 1 minute to read
Northern parallel
The five powers (bala) are foundational across all Buddhist traditions; this reading guide does not assert a specific matching sutra number
Difficulty
★☆☆☆☆ — short, completing this chapter's set of five individually stated discourses
Why this discourse
The fifth and final individually stated development list in this chapter: the identical five items from AN 5.306 — faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, wisdom — renamed from indriya, faculties, to bala, powers. With this discourse, the chapter's opening set of five parallel discourses is complete, and the giant merged page that closes this entire book takes over.
Reading guide
The same five, renamed
Saddhābala, vīriyabala, satibala, samādhibala, paññābala — word for word the same five qualities as AN 5.306's faculties, now named powers instead.
Completing, not adding, a distinction
This faculty/power naming shift for the identical underlying five items mirrors the pattern already used for this book's own formula, the sekhabala renamed tathāgatabala at AN 5.11. Here the pairing completes within this single chapter, across two adjacent discourses, rather than across a whole book.
Five discourses, five development lists, complete
With this discourse, AN 5.303–307 have together supplied all five development lists this chapter's combinatorial formula requires: two flat perception lists, one progressive perception chain, and this faculty/power pair — the material the closing merged page will now cross against every remaining defilement and verb.
Why these five discourses come first
Giving all five development lists their own individual, fully spelled-out discourse before the merged page begins lets a reader see exactly what each of the five slots contains, so that the merged page's own extreme compression can be read against material already established in full, rather than left entirely opaque.
What follows
AN 5.308–1152, a single merged page representing eight hundred forty-five further discourses, closes this chapter and the entire Book of the Fives.
Key terms
saddhābala, vīriyabala, satibala, samādhibala, paññābala — the powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom — identical in substance to AN 5.306's faculties, renamed.
indriya, bala — faculty and power — two names for the same underlying five qualities, a distinction this book has used before for its own recurring formula.
tathāgatabala — “a Realized One's powers” — AN 5.11's own faculty/power renaming of this book's sekhabala, the precedent this discourse's pairing with AN 5.306 echoes within a single chapter.
rāgassa abhiññāya — “for insight into greed” — the identical frame shared by all five opening discourses of this chapter, ending here.
bhāvetabbā — “should be developed” — this chapter's recurring instruction verb, unchanged across every one of its five opening discourses.
The text
The discourse in full: the five powers, closing this chapter's set of individually stated development lists. 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 powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom. 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 name?
Correct: A. Word for word the same five items as AN 5.306's faculties.
Question 2 of 10
How does this discourse's list relate to AN 5.306's?
Correct: A. The same faculty/power naming pattern this book has used before.
Question 3 of 10
Where else in this book does this same faculty/power renaming pattern already appear, for a different five-item list?
Correct: A. There across a whole book; here across two adjacent discourses in one chapter.
Question 4 of 10
What has AN 5.303–307 together accomplished, as of this discourse?
Correct: A. Two flat lists, one progressive chain, and this faculty/power pair.
Question 5 of 10
Why does the guide say these five discourses come before the merged page?
Correct: A. Each of the five slots is shown in full before being compressed.
Question 6 of 10
What comes immediately after this discourse?
Correct: A. Closing this chapter and the entire Book of the Fives.
Question 7 of 10
What does 'saddhābala' mean?
Correct: A. The first of the five items in this discourse's list.
Question 8 of 10
What frame has every one of AN 5.303–307 shared?
Correct: A. Ending here, with this chapter's fifth and final individually stated discourse.
Question 9 of 10
How many total discourses does the merged page that follows represent?
Correct: A. The single largest merged page in this entire project.
Question 10 of 10
What is this discourse's overall form?
Correct: A. Completing this chapter's set of five parallel opening discourses.
