Numbered Discourses 5.158
- The True Teaching
Timidity
“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is overcome by timidity.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is faithless, unethical, with little learning, lazy, and witless.
A mendicant with these five qualities is overcome by timidity.
A mendicant with five qualities is self-assured.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is faithful, ethical, learned, energetic, and wise.
A mendicant with these five qualities is self-assured.”