Numbered Discourses 5.96

10. With Kakudha

Remembering What You’ve Learned

“Bhikkhus, a bhikkhu cultivating mindfulness of breathing who has five things will soon penetrate the unshakable. What five?

It’s when a bhikkhu has few requirements and duties, and is unburdensome and contented with life’s necessities.

They eat little, not devoted to filling their stomach.

They are rarely drowsy, and are dedicated to wakefulness.

They’re very learned, remembering and keeping what they’ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that’s entirely full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, reinforcing them by recitation, mentally scrutinizing them, and comprehending them theoretically.

They review the extent of their mind’s freedom.

A bhikkhu cultivating mindfulness of breathing who has these five things will soon penetrate the unshakable.”