Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 5.20

  1. Powers

The Welfare of Both

“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is practicing for both their own welfare and 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. And they encourage others in these qualities.

A mendicant with these five qualities is practicing both for their own welfare and that of others.”