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Thag 10:7 Gotama
You should know what’s to your benefit.
You should take a good look
at the Buddha’s word
& at what’s fitting here
for one who has entered
on the contemplative life.
An admirable friend right here,
undertaking the complete training,
& obedience to teachers:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.
Respect for the Buddhas,
honoring the Dhamma
as it has come to be,
& thinking highly of the Saṅgha:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.
Fitting behavior & range of association,
a livelihood purified, blameless,
the establishing of the mind:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.
Virtuous in what you do
& what you abstain from doing,
inspiring comportment,
commitment to the heightened mind:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.
Wilderness lodgings,
secluded, with next-to-no noise,
right for sages to resort to:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.
Virtue, learning,
investigating
phenomena,
mental qualities,
as they have come to be:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.
You should develop
inconstancy,
the perception of not-self,
the perception of unattractiveness,
& distaste for the world:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.
You should develop
the factors for awakening,
the bases for success,
the faculties,
& the noble eightfold path:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.
A sage should abandon craving,
should cut through the effluents, root & all,
should dwell fully released:
This is fitting
for a contemplative.