Aṇguttara Nikāya
Catukka Nipāta
XXVI: Abhiññā Vagga

Sutta 259 [DTO # 263]

Araññika Sutta

A Wilderness Dweller

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Proofed against and modified in accordance with the revised edition at dhammatalks.org
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[1][pts][olds] "Endowed with [any of] four qualities,
a monk isn't fit to stay in isolated forest and wilderness dwellings.

Which four?

[He is endowed]
with thoughts of sensuality,
with thoughts of ill will,
with thoughts of harmfulness,
and he is a person of weak discernment,
dull,
a drooling idiot.

Endowed with [any of] these four qualities,
a monk isn't fit to stay in isolated forest and wilderness dwellings.

 

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"Endowed with four qualities,
a monk is fit to stay in isolated forest and wilderness dwellings.

Which four?

[He is endowed]
with thoughts of renunciation,
with thoughts of non-ill will,
with thoughts of harmlessness,
and he is a discerning person,
not dull,
not a drooling idiot.

Endowed with these four qualities,
a monk is fit to stay in isolated forest and wilderness dwellings."

 

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Of Related Interest:

MN 4;
MN 19
SN 4:1;
SN 9:6;
SN 9:11;
SN 9:14;
AN 5:30;
AN 5:77—78;
AN 10:99;
Ud 2:10;
Thag 18