Home | Dhamma | Buddhist Texts
Bhikkhu Sujato translation (CC0-1.0)
AN 4.262 - Wilderness Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato Source: https://suttacentral.net/an4.262/en/sujato License: CC0-1.0 Numbered Discourses 4.262 26. Insight Wilderness “Mendicants, when a mendicant has four qualities they’re not ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. What four? They have sensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts; or they’re witless, dull, and idiotic. When a mendicant possesses these four qualities they’re not ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. When a mendicant has four qualities they’re ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. What four? They have thoughts of renunciation, good will, and harmlessness; and they’re wise, bright, and clever. When a mendicant possesses these four qualities they’re ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest.”