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Numbered Discourses · AN 7.93

  • Numbered Discourses 7.93Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.93
  • 9. An Ascetic9. Samaṇavagga

Bad QualitiesAsaddhammasutta

“Mendicants, there are these seven bad qualities.“Sattime, bhikkhave, asaddhammā. What seven?Katame satta? Someone is faithless, shameless, imprudent, unlearned, lazy, unmindful, and witless.Assaddho hoti, ahiriko hoti, anottappī hoti, appassuto hoti, kusīto hoti, muṭṭhassati hoti, duppañño hoti. These are the seven bad qualities.”Ime kho, bhikkhave, satta asaddhammā”ti.

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