9.
The Discourse on the Teaching in Verses
29.
"There are, monks, these four passages of the Teaching, primordial, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unmixed, unmixed before, are not being mixed, will not be mixed, not rejected by ascetics, brahmins, and the wise.
What are the four?
Non-covetousness, monks, is a passage of the Teaching, primordial, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unmixed, unmixed before, is not being mixed, will not be mixed, not rejected by ascetics, brahmins, and the wise.
"Non-anger, monks, is a passage of the Teaching, primordial, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unmixed, unmixed before, is not being mixed, will not be mixed, not rejected by ascetics, brahmins, and the wise.
"Right mindfulness, monks, is a passage of the Teaching, primordial, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unmixed, unmixed before, is not being mixed, will not be mixed, not rejected by ascetics, brahmins, and the wise.
"Right concentration, monks, is a passage of the Teaching, primordial, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unmixed, unmixed before, is not being mixed, will not be mixed, not rejected by ascetics, brahmins, and the wise. These, monks, are the four passages of the Teaching, primordial, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unmixed, unmixed before, are not being mixed, will not be mixed, not rejected by ascetics, brahmins, and the wise."
Mindful, with a fully focused mind, internally well concentrated." The ninth.