an2.32:2.1 “What is the level of the untrue person?
BAGIAN 2
an2.32:2.2 The untrue person is ungrateful and thankless,
an2.32:2.3 for the wicked only know how to be ungrateful and thankless.
an2.32:2.4 It is totally the level of an untrue person to be ungrateful and thankless.
an2.32:2.5 The true person is grateful and thankful,
an2.32:2.6 for the virtuous only know how to be grateful and thankful.
an2.32:2.7 It is totally the level of a true person to be grateful and thankful.”
an2.34:2.1 “I teach inaction regarding bad bodily, verbal, and mental conduct, and the many kinds of unskillful things.
an2.34:2.2 I teach action regarding good bodily, verbal, and mental conduct, and the many kinds of skillful things.
an2.34:2.3 This is the kind of action and inaction that I teach.”
an2.35:2.1 That is what the Buddha said.
an2.35:2.2 Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:
an2.36:2.1 “Who is an individual fettered internally?
an2.36:2.2 It’s a mendicant who is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.
an2.36:2.3 When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in one of the orders of gods.
an2.36:2.4 When they pass away from there, they’re a returner, who comes back to this place.
an2.36:2.5 This is called an individual who is fettered internally, a returner, who comes back to this place.
an2.37:2.1 “What is the cause, worthy Kaccāna, what is the reason why ascetics fight with ascetics?”
an2.37:2.2 “It is because of their insistence on views, their shackles, avarice, and attachment, that ascetics fight with ascetics.”
an2.38:2.1 “There is the stage of an elder and the stage of youth as explained by the Blessed One, who knows and sees, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha.
an2.38:2.2 If an elder, though eighty, ninety, or a hundred years old, still dwells in the midst of sensual pleasures, enjoying them, consumed by thoughts of them, burning with fever for them, and eagerly seeking more,
an2.38:2.3 they are reckoned as a child, not a senior.
an2.38:2.4 If a youth, young, with pristine black hair, blessed with youth, in the prime of life,
an2.38:2.5 does not dwell in the midst of sensual pleasures, enjoying them, consumed by thoughts of them, burning with fever for them, and eagerly seeking more,
an2.38:2.6 they are reckoned as astute, a senior.”
an2.39:2.1 At a time when kings are strong, bandits are weak.
an2.39:2.2 Then the king is at ease when going out or coming back or when inspecting the provinces.
an2.39:2.3 The brahmins and householders, likewise, are at ease when going out or coming back, or when inspecting their external business activities.
an2.39:2.4 In the same way, at a time when good-hearted mendicants are strong, bad mendicants are weak.
an2.39:2.5 Then the bad mendicants continually adhere to silence in the midst of the Saṅgha, or they leave for some place or other.
an2.39:2.6 This is for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans.”
an2.40:2.1 I praise right practice for these two, for laypeople and renunciates.
an2.40:2.2 Because of right practice, both laypeople and renunciates succeed in completing the system of the skillful teaching.”
an2.41:2.1 But by memorizing the discourses well, not taking only a semblance of the phrasing, some mendicants conform to the meaning and the teaching. They act for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans.
an2.41:2.2 They brim with much merit and make the true teaching continue.”