AN 10.156–166Frequenting, Etc.
Pāli / Sanskrit:Bhajitabbādisutta
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– Numbered Discourses 10.156–166
– 16. Individuals
Frequenting, Etc.
“Mendicants, you should not frequent an individual who has ten qualities. … you should frequent … you should not pay homage … you should pay homage … you should not venerate … you should venerate … you should not praise … you should praise … you should not respect … you should respect … you should not revere … you should revere … is not a success … is a success … is not pure … is pure … does not win over conceit … wins over conceit … does not grow in wisdom … grows in wisdom …
brims with much wickedness … brims with much merit. What ten? Right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom. An individual who has these ten qualities creates much merit.”
The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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