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The Third Discourse on the Fixed Course of the Right Path
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"Monks, one possessed of five qualities, even while hearing the Good Teaching, is incapable of entering upon the fixed course, the right path, in wholesome mental states.
Which five?
One who depreciates another's worth hears the Teaching, pervaded by contempt; one with a censuring mind hears the Teaching, seeking faults; towards the speaker of the Teaching he has a struck mind, with barrenness arisen; he is unwise, dull, an idiot; he is conceited about what is not known as if it were known.
Monks, one possessed of these five qualities, even while hearing the Good Teaching, is incapable of entering upon the fixed course, the right path, in wholesome mental states.
"Monks, one possessed of five qualities, while hearing the Good Teaching, is capable of entering upon the fixed course, the right path, in wholesome mental states. Which five? One without depreciation hears the Teaching, not pervaded by contempt; one without a censuring mind hears the Teaching, not seeking faults; towards the speaker of the Teaching he is without a struck mind, without barrenness arisen; he is wise, not dull, not an idiot; he is not conceited about what is not known as if it were known. Monks, one possessed of these five qualities, while hearing the Good Teaching, is capable of entering upon the fixed course, the right path, in wholesome mental states." The third.