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၂၃၊ ဒီဃစာရိကဝဂ္ဂ
23. Long Wandering
မစ္ဆရီသုတ္တ
Stingy
“ပဉ္စိမေ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, အာဒီနဝါ အတိနိဝါသေ၊ ကတမေ ပဉ္စ? အာဝါသမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ, ကုလမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ, လာဘမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ, ဝဏ္ဏမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ, ဓမ္မမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ၊ ဣမေ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ပဉ္စ အာဒီနဝါ အတိနိဝါသေ၊
“Bhikkhus, there are these five drawbacks of overstaying. What five? You become stingy with dwellings, families, material possessions, praise, and the teaching. These are the five drawbacks of overstaying.
ပဉ္စိမေ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, အာနိသံသာ သမဝတ္ထဝါသေ၊ ကတမေ ပဉ္စ? န အာဝါသမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ, န ကုလမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ, န လာဘမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ, န ဝဏ္ဏမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ, န ဓမ္မမစ္ဆရီ ဟောတိ၊ ဣမေ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ပဉ္စ အာနိသံသာ သမဝတ္ထဝါသေ”တိ၊
There are these five benefits of staying for a reasonable length of time. What five? You’re not stingy with dwellings, families, material possessions, praise, and the teaching. These are the five benefits of staying for a reasonable length of time.”
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