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- Anguttara Nikaya V.161
- Aghatapativinaya Sutta
- Removing Annoyance
- Translated from the Pali by Ñanamoli Thera
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From The Practice of
Loving-kindness (Metta) (WH 7), by Ñanamoli Thera, (Kandy: Buddhist Publication
Society, 1987).
"Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can
be entirely removed by a bhikkhu when it arises in him. What are the five?
"Loving-kindness can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you are
annoyed: this is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"Compassion can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you are annoyed;
this too is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"Onlooking equanimity can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you
are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"The forgetting and ignoring of a person with whom you are annoyed can be
practiced; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"Ownership of deeds in a person with whom you are annoyed can be concentrated upon
thus: 'This good person is owner of his deeds, heir to his deeds, his deeds are the womb
from which he is born, his deeds are his kin for whom he is responsible, his deeds are his
refuge, he is heir to his deeds, be they good or bad.' This too is how annoyance with him
can be removed.
"These are the five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be entirely
removed in a bhikkhu when it arises in him."