Aṅguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka Nipāta
10. Kakudha Vagga
Sutta 96
Suta-Dhara Suttaṃ
Sutta-Bearer
Translated from the Pali
by
Michael M. Olds
[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.