11.
The First Discourse on the Peacock's Feeding Ground
144.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha in the Peacocks' Feeding Ground in the wandering ascetics' park.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Monks."
"Venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"Monks, endowed with three qualities, a monk is one who has reached the ultimate goal, the ultimate security from bondage, the ultimate holy life, and the ultimate consummation, and is foremost of gods and humans. With which three? With the aggregate of morality of one beyond training, with the aggregate of concentration of one beyond training, with the aggregate of wisdom of one beyond training. Monks, endowed with these three qualities, a monk is one who has reached the ultimate goal, the ultimate security from bondage, the ultimate holy life, and the ultimate consummation, and is foremost of gods and humans." The eleventh.