AN.4.262. Araññasutta ("Wilderness")

Aṅguttara Nikāya ("Collections of Numbered Discourses")

“Mendicants, when a mendicant has four qualities they’re not ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. What four? They have sensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts; or they’re witless, dull, and stupid. When a mendicant has these four qualities they’re not ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest.

When a mendicant has four qualities they’re ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. What four? They have thoughts of renunciation, good will, and harmlessness; and they’re wise, bright, and clever. When a mendicant has these four qualities they’re ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest.”



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