Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 7.92

  1. An Ascetic

A Perfected One

“Mendicants, it’s by being impeccably remote from seven things that you become a perfected one.

What seven?

Substantialist view, doubt, misapprehension of precepts and observances, greed, hate, delusion, and conceit.

It’s because of being impeccably remote from these seven things that you become a perfected one.”