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Numbered Discourses · AN 5.158

  • Numbered Discourses 5.158Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.158
  • 16. The True Teaching16. Saddhammavagga

TimiditySārajjasutta

“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is overcome by timidity.“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu sārajjaṁ okkanto hoti. What five?Katamehi pañcahi? It’s when a mendicant is faithless, unethical, with little learning, lazy, and witless.Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu assaddho hoti, dussīlo hoti, appassuto hoti, kusīto hoti, duppañño hoti. A mendicant with these five qualities is overcome by timidity.Imehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi, dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu sārajjaṁ okkanto hoti.

A mendicant with five qualities is self-assured.Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu visārado hoti. What five?Katamehi pañcahi? It’s when a mendicant is faithful, ethical, learned, energetic, and wise.Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu saddho hoti, sīlavā hoti, bahussuto hoti, āraddhavīriyo hoti, paññavā hoti. A mendicant with these five qualities is self-assured.”Imehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu visārado hotī”ti.

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