12.
The Chapter on Asceticism
1.
The Discourse on Observing the Body
117. "Monks, without abandoning six qualities, one is incapable of dwelling observing the body in the body. Which six? Delight in work, delight in talk, delight in sleep, delight in company, not guarding the doors of the sense faculties, immoderation in eating. These, monks, without abandoning these six qualities, one is incapable of dwelling observing the body in the body.
"Monks, having abandoned six qualities, one is capable of dwelling observing the body in the body. Which six? Delight in work, delight in talk, delight in sleep, delight in company, not guarding the doors of the sense faculties, immoderation in eating - these, monks, having abandoned these six qualities, one is capable of dwelling observing the body in the body." The first.
2.
The Discourse on Observing Mind-objects
118. "Monks, without abandoning six qualities, one is incapable of dwelling internally in the body, etc. externally in the body, etc. internally and externally in the body, etc. internally in feelings, etc. externally in feelings, etc. internally and externally in feelings, etc. internally in mind, etc. externally in mind, etc. internally and externally in mind, etc. internally in mental phenomena, etc. externally in mental phenomena, etc. dwelling observing mental phenomena internally and externally in mental phenomena. Which six? Delight in work, delight in talk, delight in sleep, delight in company, not guarding the doors of the sense faculties, immoderation in eating. These, monks, having abandoned these six qualities, one is capable of dwelling observing mental phenomena internally and externally in mental phenomena." The second.
3.
The Discourse on Tapussa
119. "Monks, the householder Tapussa, possessed of six qualities, has reached a conclusion regarding the Truth-finder, is one who sees the Deathless, and having realised the Deathless, he lives. Which six? With unwavering confidence in the Buddha, with unwavering confidence in the Teaching, with unwavering confidence in the Community, with noble morality, with noble knowledge, with noble liberation. Monks, the householder Tapussa, possessed of these six qualities, has reached a conclusion regarding the Truth-finder, is one who sees the Deathless, and having realised the Deathless, he lives." The third.
4-23.
The Discourses Beginning with Bhallika
120-139. "Monks, the householder Bhallika, possessed of six qualities, etc. the householder Sudatta Anāthapiṇḍika... the householder Citta of Macchikāsaṇḍa... Hatthaka of Āḷavī... Mahānāma the Sakyan... the householder Ugga of Vesālī... the householder Uggata... Sūrambaṭṭha... Jīvaka Komārabhacca... the householder Nakulapitā... the householder Tavakaṇṇika... the householder Pūraṇa... the householder Isidatta... the householder Sandhāna... the householder Vicaya... the householder Vijayamāhika... the householder Meṇḍaka... the lay follower Vāseṭṭha... the lay follower Ariṭṭha... the lay follower Sāragga has reached a conclusion regarding the Truth-finder, is one who sees the Deathless, and having realised the Deathless, he lives. Which six? With unwavering confidence in the Buddha, with unwavering confidence in the Teaching, with unwavering confidence in the Community, with noble morality, with noble knowledge, with noble liberation. Monks, the lay follower Sāragga, possessed of these six qualities, has reached a conclusion regarding the Truth-finder, is one who sees the Deathless, and having realised the Deathless, he lives." Twenty-third.
The Asceticism Chapter is the twelfth.