Untitled in the source — Sammappadhanavagga — the eighth chapter of the Nines, continued
Setting
None stated in the source
Speakers
The Buddha alone, addressing the mendicants
Form
A single instruction, pointing back to an entire earlier chapter rather than giving any content of its own
Length
A few seconds to read the instruction itself
A new kind of compression for this project
Not a peyyāla compressing many suttas' own repeated content, but a direct pointer to a different chapter's content entirely
Difficulty
★☆☆☆☆ — trivial to read the instruction, but worth understanding what it actually implies
Why this discourse
Standing for eight separate discourses (AN 9.74 through AN 9.81), this single page's entire surviving content is one instruction: ‘tell in full as in the chapter on mindfulness meditation’ — directing the reciter back to ch.7's own eight middle obstacle-lists, each now paired with the four right efforts instead of the four kinds of mindfulness meditation.
Reading guide
The teaching in one sentence
The same eight obstacle-lists already given in full at AN 9.64 through AN 9.71 — hindrances, sensual stimulation, grasping aggregates, lower fetters, destinations, stinginess, higher fetters, and hard-heartedness — are each given up by developing the four right efforts, exactly as AN 9.73 already showed for the first obstacle-list in both chapters.
A genuinely new kind of compression
Every peyyāla merge met so far in this project — from AN 3.183-352 through AN 8.148-627 — compresses many suttas that share one self-contained repeated content. This page is different in kind: it points not to content repeated within its own range, but to an entirely separate chapter, ch.7, several discourses back, trusting the reciter to substitute ‘four right efforts’ for ‘four kinds of mindfulness meditation’ throughout.
Eight discourses, reduced to one instruction
Following the same order as ch.7's own AN 9.64 through AN 9.71, this page stands for: hindrances, sensual stimulation, grasping aggregates, lower fetters, destinations, stinginess, higher fetters, and hard-heartedness — the eight middle obstacle-lists sandwiched between the ‘weaknesses’ opener and ‘shackles of the heart’ closer both chapters share.
Not fabricating what the instruction withholds
This guide does not reconstruct all eight discourses' full text under the four-right-efforts framing, since the source itself declines to write them out. Readers wanting the specific obstacle-lists in full should read them directly at AN 9.64 through AN 9.71, then mentally substitute this chapter's remedy for ch.7's.
Key terms
tesaṁyeva vitthāro satipaṭṭhānavaggasadisova kātabbo — “tell in full as in the chapter on mindfulness meditation” — this page's entire surviving instruction, pointing back to ch.7 rather than repeating its content.
cattāro sammappadhānā — “the four right efforts” — the one substitution this instruction asks the reciter to make throughout.
nīvaraṇā, kāmaguṇā, upādānakkhandhā — “hindrances, sensual stimulation, grasping aggregates” — the first three of the eight obstacle-lists this page stands for, given in full at AN 9.64-66.
orambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni, gatiyo, macchariyāni, uddhambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni, cetokhilā — “lower fetters, destinations, stinginess, higher fetters, hard-heartedness” — the remaining five obstacle-lists this page stands for, given in full at AN 9.67-71.
sammappadhānavaggo — “Sammappadhānavagga” — this chapter's own name, naming the remedy this whole chapter substitutes for ch.7's.
The text
The discourse exactly as it survives in the source: a single instruction pointing back to ch.7's own content. Nothing has been added or reconstructed. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
The instruction, in full
§1(Tell in full as in the chapter on mindfulness meditation.)
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Self-check quiz
6 questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 6
What does this page's entire surviving text consist of?
Correct: B. A direct pointer to ch.7's content, not a self-contained repetition.
Question 2 of 6
How does this compression differ from every peyyāla merge met earlier in this project?
Correct: B. A genuinely new kind of compression, first met at this page.
Question 3 of 6
What eight obstacle-lists does this page stand for?
Correct: B. Ch.7's own eight middle obstacle-lists, sandwiched between the shared opener and closer.
Question 4 of 6
What single substitution does the instruction ask the reciter to make?
Correct: B. The one variable that changes between the two chapters' otherwise identical obstacle-lists.
Question 5 of 6
What does this page's guide avoid doing?
Correct: B. Consistent with this project's rule against inventing text not in the source.
Question 6 of 6
Where should a reader go for the full text of these eight obstacle-lists?
Correct: B. Ch.7's own full treatment of the identical obstacle-lists.
