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အင်္ဂုတ္တရ နိကာယ ၅၊၂၅၄
Numbered Discourses 5.254
၂၆၊ ဥပသမ္ပဒါဝဂ္ဂ
26. Ordination
ပဉ္စမစ္ဆရိယသုတ္တ
Five Kinds of Stinginess
“ပဉ္စိမာနိ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, မစ္ဆရိယာနိ၊ ကတမာနိ ပဉ္စ? အာဝါသမစ္ဆရိယံ, ကုလမစ္ဆရိယံ, လာဘမစ္ဆရိယံ, ဝဏ္ဏမစ္ဆရိယံ, ဓမ္မမစ္ဆရိယံ—ဣမာနိ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ပဉ္စ မစ္ဆရိယာနိ၊ ဣမေသံ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ပဉ္စန္နံ မစ္ဆရိယာနံ ဧတံ ပဋိကုဋ္ဌံ, ယဒိဒံ ဓမ္မမစ္ဆရိယန်”တိ၊
“Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of stinginess. What five? Stinginess with dwellings, families, material possessions, praise, and the teachings. These are the five kinds of stinginess. The most contemptible of these five kinds of stinginess is stinginess with the teachings.”
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