Iti 108Deceivers
Pāli / Sanskrit:Kuhasutta
Monks who are and who are not the Buddha’s true followers.
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– So It Was Said 108
The Book of the Fours The Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching Deceivers
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, those mendicants who are deceivers and flatterers, pompous and fake, insolent and scattered: those mendicants are no followers of mine. They’ve left this teaching and training, and they don’t achieve growth, improvement, or maturity in this teaching and training. But those mendicants who are genuine, not flatterers, attentive, amenable, and serene: those mendicants are followers of mine. They haven’t left this teaching and training, and they do achieve growth, improvement, or maturity in this teaching and training.”
The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
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