Numbered Discourses 5.151

16. The True Teaching

Surety in the Right Way (1st)

“Bhikkhus, someone with five qualities is unable to enter the sure path with regards to skillful qualities even when listening to the true teaching. What five? They disparage the talk, the speaker, or themselves. They listen with scattered and scattered mind. They apply the mind irrationally. Someone with these five qualities is unable to enter the sure path with regards to skillful qualities, even when listening to the true teaching.

Someone with five qualities is able to enter the sure path with regards to skillful qualities when listening to the true teaching. What five? They don’t disparage the talk, the speaker, or themselves. They listen with unscattered and unified mind. They apply the mind rationally. Someone with these five qualities is able to enter the sure path with regards to skillful qualities when listening to the true teaching.”