Numbered Discourses 10.77
- If You Want
A Crow
“Mendicants, a crow has ten bad qualities.
What ten?
They’re rude and impudent, gluttonous and voracious, cruel and pitiless, weak and raucous, unmindful and acquisitive.
A crow possesses these ten bad qualities.
In the same way, a bad mendicant possesses these ten bad qualities.
What ten?
They’re rude and impudent, gluttonous and voracious, cruel and pitiless, weak and raucous, unmindful and acquisitive.
A bad mendicant possesses these ten bad qualities.”