Numbered Discourses 5.17
- Powers
One’s Own Welfare
“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is practicing for their own welfare, but not that of others.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is personally accomplished in ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom. But they don’t encourage others in these qualities.
A mendicant with these five qualities is practicing for their own welfare, but not that of others.”