Numbered Discourses 5.19
- Powers
The Welfare of Neither
“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is practicing neither for their own welfare, nor that of others.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is not personally accomplished in ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, or the knowledge and vision of freedom. Nor do they encourage others in these qualities.
A mendicant with these five qualities is practicing neither for their own welfare, nor that of others.”