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Mahaparinibbanasutta 1.11.2

Mahāparinibbānasutta 1.11.2

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Pāli

1.11.2

“Evaṃ, bhante”ti kho te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṃ.

'Six conditions of welfare will I teach you, O brethren. Listen well, and attend, and I will speak.'
And on their expressing their assent, he spake as follows:
'So long as the brethren shall persevere in kindness of action, speech, and thought amongst the saints, both in public and in private--so long as they shall divide without partiality, and share in common with the upright and the holy, all such things as they receive in accordance with the just provisions of the order, down even to the mere contents of a begging bowl--so long as the brethren shall live among the saints in the practice, both in public and in private, of those virtues which (unbroken, intact, unspotted, unblemished) are productive of freedom, and praised by the wise; which are untarnished by the desire of future life, or by the belief in the efficacy of outward acts; and which are conducive to high and holy thoughts--so long as the brethren shall live among the saints, cherishing, both in public and in private, that noble and saving faith which leads to the complete destruction of the sorrow of him who acts according to it--so long may the brethren be expected not to decline, but to prosper.
'So long as these six conditions shall continue to
exist among the brethren so long as they are instructed in these six conditions, so long may the brethren be expected not to decline, but to prosper.'
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The Book of the Great Decease (Mahâ-parinibbâna-suttanta)

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