AN.5.17. Paṭhamahitasutta ("One’s Own Welfare")

Aṅguttara Nikāya ("Collections of Numbered Discourses")

“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is practicing for their own welfare, but not that of others. What five? It’s when a mendicant is personally accomplished in ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom. But they don’t encourage others in these qualities. A mendicant with these five qualities is practicing for their own welfare, but not that of others.”



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