{"id":"an3.2","title":"Characteristics","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.2","title":"Characteristics","units":[{"id":"an3.2:0","sourceIds":["an3.2:0.1","an3.2:0.2","an3.2:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.2\n1. Bālavagga\nLakkhaṇasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.2\n1. Fools\nCharacteristics"}},{"id":"an3.2:1","sourceIds":["an3.2:1.1","an3.2:1.2","an3.2:1.3","an3.2:1.4","an3.2:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kammalakkhaṇo, bhikkhave, bālo, kammalakkhaṇo paṇḍito, apadānasobhanī paññāti.\nTīhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bālo veditabbo.\nKatamehi tīhi?\nKāyaduccaritena, vacīduccaritena, manoduccaritena.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, tīhi dhammehi samannāgato bālo veditabbo.","en":"“A fool is characterized by their deeds, and an astute person is characterized by their deeds, for wisdom shines in its traces.\nA fool is known by three things.\nWhat three?\nBad conduct by way of body, speech, and mind.\nThese are the three things by which a fool is known."}},{"id":"an3.2:2","sourceIds":["an3.2:2.1","an3.2:2.2","an3.2:2.3","an3.2:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tīhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato paṇḍito veditabbo.\nKatamehi tīhi?\nKāyasucaritena, vacīsucaritena, manosucaritena.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, tīhi dhammehi samannāgato paṇḍito veditabbo.","en":"An astute person is known by three things.\nWhat three?\nGood conduct by way of body, speech, and mind.\nThese are the three things by which an astute person is known."}},{"id":"an3.2:3","sourceIds":["an3.2:3.1","an3.2:3.2","an3.2:3.3","an3.2:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, evaṁ sikkhitabbaṁ:\n‘yehi tīhi dhammehi samannāgato bālo veditabbo te tayo dhamme abhinivajjetvā, yehi tīhi dhammehi samannāgato paṇḍito veditabbo te tayo dhamme samādāya vattissāmā’ti.\nEvañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"So you should train like this:\n‘We will shun the three things by which a fool is known, and we will proceed having undertaken the three things by which an astute person is known.’\nThat’s how you should train.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.2/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}