an7.38:1.1 “Mendicants, a mendicant with seven qualities will soon realize the four kinds of textual analysis and live having achieved them with their own insight.
an7.38:1.2 What seven?
an7.38:1.3 It’s when a mendicant truly understands: ‘This is mental sluggishness’.
an7.38:1.4 They truly understand internally constricted mind as ‘internally constricted mind’.
an7.38:1.5 They truly understand externally scattered mind as ‘externally scattered mind’.
an7.38:1.6 They know feelings as they arise, as they remain, and as they go away.
an7.38:1.7 They know perceptions as they arise, as they remain, and as they go away.
an7.38:1.8 They know thoughts as they arise, as they remain, and as they go away.
an7.38:1.9 The patterns of qualities—suitable or unsuitable, inferior or superior, or those with a portion of dark or bright—are properly grasped, focused on, borne in mind, and penetrated with wisdom.
an7.38:1.10 A mendicant with these seven qualities will soon realize the four kinds of textual analysis and live having achieved them with their own insight.”
