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Grouping of theThrees

9. Three persons -

(1) The desireless, the hopeful, and the one free from desire.

(2) Three persons like the sick.

(3) A body-witness, one attained to right view, one liberated by faith.

(4) One of foul speech, one of flower-like speech, one of honey-like speech.

(5) The person with a mind like a sore, the person with a mind like lightning, the person with a mind like a diamond.

(6) The blind, the one-eyed, the two-eyed.

(7) The person of overturned wisdom, the person of lap-like wisdom, the person of broad wisdom.

(8) A certain person is not free from lust towards sensual pleasures and existences, a certain person is free from lust towards sensual pleasures but not free from lust towards existences, a certain person is free from lust towards both sensual pleasures and existences.

(9) The person like an inscription on rock, the person like an inscription on earth, the person like an inscription on water.

(10) Three persons like coarse cloth.

(11) Three persons like Kāsi cloth.

(12) The easily measured, the difficult to measure, the immeasurable.

(13) A certain person should not be associated with, should not be kept company with, should not be attended upon; a certain person should be associated with, should be kept company with, should be attended upon; a certain person, having honoured and respected, should be associated with, should be kept company with, should be attended upon.

(14) A certain person should be shunned, should not be associated with, should not be kept company with, should not be attended upon; a certain person should be looked upon with indifference, should not be associated with, should not be kept company with, should not be attended upon; a certain person should be associated with, should be kept company with, should be attended upon.

(15) A certain person is one who fulfils morality, one who practises to a moderate degree in concentration, one who practises to a moderate degree in wisdom; a certain person is one who fulfils morality and one who fulfils concentration, one who practises to a moderate degree in wisdom; a certain person is one who fulfils morality and one who fulfils concentration and one who fulfils wisdom.

(16) Three teachers.

(17) There are also another three teachers.

A triad.