AN.7.20. Niddasavatthusutta ("Qualifications for Graduation")

Aṅguttara Nikāya ("Collections of Numbered Discourses")

“Mendicants, there are these seven qualifications for graduation. What seven? It’s when a mendicant has a keen enthusiasm to undertake the training … to examine the teachings … to get rid of desires … for retreat … to rouse up energy … for mindfulness and alertness … to penetrate theoretically. And they don’t lose these desires in the future. These are the seven qualifications for graduation.”



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