6.
The First Discourse on the Learner
16.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"For a monk who is a learner, monks, who has not attained his goal, dwelling aspiring for the unsurpassed freedom from bondage, taking an internal factor into account, I do not perceive any other single factor that is thus very helpful as this, monks, wise attention. A monk wisely attending, monks, abandons the unwholesome, develops the wholesome." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
"Wise attention is the quality for a monk who is a learner;
There is no other thus of great service, for the attainment of the highest goal;
A monk wisely striving may reach the elimination of suffering."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The sixth.