Akankheyyasutta 12.1

12.1

Ākaṅkheyya ce, bhikkhave, bhikkhu: ‘tiṇṇaṃ saṃyojanānaṃ parikkhayā rāgadosamohānaṃ tanuttā sakadāgāmī assaṃ sakideva imaṃ lokaṃ āgantvā dukkhassantaṃ kareyyan’ti, sīlesvevassa paripūrakārī …pe… brūhetā suññāgārānaṃ.

A mendicant might wish: ‘May I, with the ending of three fetters, and the weakening of greed, hate, and delusion, become a once-returner, coming back to this world once only, then making an end of suffering.’ So let them fulfill their precepts …