Dighanikaya 34.351_12

34.351_12

Tattha appamādo kusalesu dhammesūti sabbatthakaṃ upakārakaṃ appamādaṃ kathesi. Ayañhi appamādo nāma sīlapūraṇe, indriyasaṃvare, bhojane mattaññutāya, jāgariyānuyoge, sattasu saddhammesu, vipassanāgabbhaṃ gaṇhāpane, atthapaṭisambhidādīsu, sīlakkhandhādipañcadhammakkhandhesu, ṭhānāṭṭhānesu, mahāvihārasamāpattiyaṃ, ariyasaccesu, satipaṭṭhānādīsu, bodhipakkhiyesu, vipassanāñāṇādīsu aṭṭhasu vijjāsūti sabbesu anavajjaṭṭhena kusalesu dhammesu bahūpakāro.

Herein, as to "diligence regarding wholesome qualities": he spoke of diligence, which is helpful everywhere. For this diligence is of much help in all qualities that are wholesome in the sense of blamelessness: in the fulfillment of morality, sense restraint, moderation in eating, devotion to wakefulness, the seven true Dhammas, causing the embryo of insight to take hold, the analytical knowledge of meaning and the like, the five aggregates of Dhammas such as the aggregate of morality, the possible and impossible, the attainment of the great dwelling, the Noble Truths, the foundations of mindfulness and the like, the factors of awakening, and the eight knowledges beginning with the knowledge of insight.