“Upāli, you might know that certain things don’t lead solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment. Categorically, you should remember these things as not the teaching, not the training, and not the Teacher’s instructions. You might know that certain things do lead solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment. Categorically, you should remember these things as the teaching, the training, and the Teacher’s instructions.”
Numbered Discourses 7.84 8. The Monastic Law The Settling of Disciplinary Issues
“Mendicants, there are these seven principles for settling any disciplinary issues that might arise. What seven? Resolution face-to-face to be applied. Resolution through recollection to be granted. Resolution because of past insanity to be granted. Acting according to what has been admitted. Majority decision. Further penalty. Covering over as if with grass. These are the seven principles for settling any disciplinary issues that might arise.”
Numbered Discourses 7.85 9. An Ascetic A Mendicant
“Mendicants, it’s because of breaking seven things that you become a mendicant. What seven? Substantialist view, doubt, misapprehension of precepts and observances, greed, hate, delusion, and conceit. It’s because of breaking these seven things that you become a mendicant.”
Numbered Discourses 7.86 9. An Ascetic An Ascetic
“Mendicants, it’s because of quelling seven things that you become an ascetic …”
Numbered Discourses 7.87 9. An Ascetic A Brahmin
“Mendicants, it’s because of barring out seven things that you become a brahmin …”
Numbered Discourses 7.88 9. An Ascetic A Scholar
“Mendicants, it’s because of scouring off seven things that you become a scholar …”
Numbered Discourses 7.89 9. An Ascetic A Bathed Initiate
“Mendicants, it’s because of bathing off seven things that you become a bathed initiate …”
Numbered Discourses 7.90 9. An Ascetic A Knowledge Master
“Mendicants, it’s because of knowing seven things that you become a knowledge master …”
Numbered Discourses 7.91 9. An Ascetic A Noble One
“Mendicants, it’s because seven foes have been nobbled that you become a noble one …”