Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 9.9

  1. Awakening

Individuals

“Mendicants, these nine individuals are found in the world.

What nine?

The perfected one and the one practicing for perfection. The non-returner and the one practicing to realize the fruit of non-return. The once-returner and the one practicing to realize the fruit of once-return. The stream-enterer and the one practicing to realize the fruit of stream-entry. And the ordinary person.

These are the nine individuals found in the world.”