Numbered Discourses 5.252

1. Ordination

Who Should Give Dependence

“Mendicants, dependence should be given by a mendicant with five qualities.

What five?

It’s a mendicant who has the entire spectrum of an adept’s ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom.

Dependence should be given by a mendicant with these five qualities.”