Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 10.100

  1. With Upāli

Cannot

“Mendicants, without giving up ten things you can’t realize perfection.

What ten?

Greed, hate, delusion, anger, acrimony, disdain, contempt, jealousy, stinginess, and conceit.

Without giving up these ten things you can’t realize perfection.

After giving up ten things you can realize perfection.

What ten?

Greed, hate, delusion, anger, acrimony, disdain, contempt, jealousy, stinginess, and conceit.

After giving up these ten things you can realize perfection.”