Numbered Discourses 5.8
- Powers of a Trainee
Failure
“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities fails, and doesn’t establish themselves in the true teaching.
What five?
A mendicant who is faithless …
shameless …
imprudent …
lazy …
witless fails, and doesn’t establish themselves in the true teaching.
A mendicant with these five qualities fails, and doesn’t establish themselves in the true teaching.
A mendicant with five qualities doesn’t fail, and establishes themselves in the true teaching.
What five?
A mendicant who is faithful …
conscientious …
prudent …
energetic …
wise doesn’t fail, and establishes themselves in the true teaching.
A mendicant with these five qualities doesn’t fail, and establishes themselves in the true teaching.”