Numbered Discourses 5.4
- Powers of a Trainee
Cast Down
“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is faithless, shameless, imprudent, lazy, and witless.
A mendicant with these five qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.
A mendicant with five qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is faithful, conscientious, prudent, energetic, and wise.
A mendicant with these five qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”