Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Linked Discourses 14.23

  1. Ways of Performing Deeds

Lacking Immersion

At Sāvatthī.

“Mendicants, sentient beings join together and converge because of an element:

the faithless with the faithless …

shameless …

imprudent …

lacking immersion …

witless …

The faithful with the faithful …

conscientious …

prudent …

possessing immersion …

and the wise with the wise.”