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Numbered Discourses · AN 5.255

  • Numbered Discourses 5.255Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.255
  • 26. Ordination26. Upasampadāvagga

Giving Up StinginessMacchariyappahānasutta

“Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess.“Pañcannaṁ, bhikkhave, macchariyānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. What five?Katamesaṁ pañcannaṁ? Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teachings.Āvāsamacchariyassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati; The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess.”Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ macchariyānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti.

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