Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 5.18

  1. Powers

Welfare of Others (2nd)

“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is practicing for the welfare of others, but not their own.

What five?

It’s when a mendicant is not personally accomplished in ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, or the knowledge and vision of freedom. But they encourage others in these qualities.

A mendicant with these five qualities is practicing for the welfare of others, but not their own.”