Aṅguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka Nipāta
10. Kakudha Vagga

Sutta 96

Suta-Dhara Suttaṃ

Sutta-Bearer

Translated from the Pali
by
Michael M. Olds

 

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[1][pts][than] Getting himself five things, beggars,
a beggar minding the breathing
penetrates the unshakable
not long thereafter.

What are those five?

2. Here beggars,
a beggar has few ambitions,
has few duties.

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He bears well,
is well-content with life's basics.

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He takes little food,
is not yoked to filling the stomach.

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He has heard much,
has got down and bears many suttas.

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That Dhamma,
helpful in the beginning,
helpful in the middle,
helpful at the conclusion,
with meaning and syllable in complete agreement,
addressing the thoroughly-pure best of lives —
of such Dhamma he has heard much,
bearing,
discussing,
reciting,
pondering it over in mind,
well-penetrating it in theory.

And he reflects upon any freedom of heart accordingly.

These are the five things, beggars,
that getting, a beggar
minding the breathing,
will penetrate the unshakable
not long thereafter.