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The Discourse on the Forest Dweller
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"Monks, there are these five forest-dwellers.
Which five?
One is a forest-dweller due to dullness and sheer delusion; one is a forest-dweller having evil desires, overcome by desire; one is a forest-dweller due to madness and derangement of the mind; one is a forest-dweller thinking 'It is praised by Buddhas and disciples of Buddhas'; one is a forest-dweller in dependence on just fewness of wishes, in dependence on just contentment, in dependence on just detachment, in dependence on just solitude, in dependence on just this being the purpose.
These, monks, are the five forest-dwellers.
Of these five forest-dwellers, monks, the forest-dweller who is a forest-dweller in dependence on just fewness of wishes, in dependence on just contentment, in dependence on just detachment, in dependence on just solitude, in dependence on just this being the purpose, is the foremost and the best and the chief and the highest and the most excellent among these five forest-dwellers.
Just as, monks, from a cow comes milk, from milk comes curds, from curds comes butter, from butter comes ghee, from ghee comes the cream of ghee, and therein the cream of ghee is declared the foremost; so too, monks, of these five forest-dwellers, the forest-dweller who is a forest-dweller in dependence on just fewness of wishes, in dependence on just contentment, in dependence on just detachment, in dependence on just solitude, in dependence on just this being the purpose, is the foremost and the best and the chief and the highest and the most excellent among these five forest-dwellers." The first.