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#### Aṅguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka Nipāta
9. Thera Vagga

#### The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Fives
IX. The Elder

#### Sutta 89

#### Paṭhama Sekha Suttaṁ

# The Monk in Training (a)

Translated by E. M. Hare

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[91]

[1] Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One dwelt near Sāvatthī;
and there he addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

'Yes, lord,' they replied;
and the Exalted One said:

"Monks, these five conditions
lead to the decline
of a monk in training.

What five?

Delight in business;[1]
delight in gossip;
delight in sleeping;
delight in company;
and he does not reflect on the mind as freed.[2]

Monks, these are the five conditions,
that lead to the decline
of a monk in training.

§

Monks, these five conditions
do not lead to the decline
of a monk in training.

What five?

Non-delight in business;
Non-delight in gossip;
Non-delight in sleeping;
Non-delight in company;
and he does reflect on the mind as freed.

Monks, these are the five conditions,
that do not lead to the decline
of a monk in training.

[1] Cf. A. iv, 22; It. 72; below VI, §§ 14, 21. Busmess = kamma.

Yathāvimuttaṁ cittaṁ. Or, perhaps: [He does not reflect on] whatever frees the heart/mind.

— p.p.

[2] Yathāvimuttaṁ cittaṁ na paccavekkhati. Comy. as if it were a mind freed (yathāssa cittaṁ vimuttaṁ); the faults got rid of and the good won — he reflects on those, but makes no effort to win higher ones. Cf. below V, § 95 ff.

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