{"id":"an4.210","title":"Bad Character (4th)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.210","title":"Bad Character (4th)","units":[{"id":"an4.210:0","sourceIds":["an4.210:0.1","an4.210:0.2","an4.210:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.210\n21. Sappurisavagga\nCatutthapāpadhammasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.210\n21. A True Person\nBad Character (4th)"}},{"id":"an4.210:1","sourceIds":["an4.210:1.1","an4.210:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pāpadhammañca vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi, pāpadhammena pāpadhammatarañca;\nkalyāṇadhammañca, kalyāṇadhammena kalyāṇadhammatarañca. Taṁ suṇātha …pe….","en":"“Mendicants, I will teach you bad character and worse character,\ngood character and better character."}},{"id":"an4.210:2","sourceIds":["an4.210:2.1","an4.210:2.2","an4.210:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Katamo ca, bhikkhave, pāpadhammo?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco micchādiṭṭhiko hoti …pe… micchāñāṇī hoti, micchāvimutti hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, pāpadhammo.","en":"And who has bad character?\nIt’s someone who has wrong view, wrong purpose, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, wrong immersion, wrong knowledge, and wrong freedom.\nThis is called bad character."}},{"id":"an4.210:3","sourceIds":["an4.210:3.1","an4.210:3.2","an4.210:3.3","an4.210:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, pāpadhammena pāpadhammataro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco attanā ca micchādiṭṭhiko hoti, parañca micchādiṭṭhiyā samādapeti …pe… attanā ca micchāñāṇī hoti, parañca micchāñāṇe samādapeti;\nattanā ca micchāvimutti hoti, parañca micchāvimuttiyā samādapeti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, pāpadhammena pāpadhammataro.","en":"And who has worse character?\nIt’s someone who has wrong view, wrong purpose, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, wrong immersion, wrong knowledge, and wrong freedom. And they encourage others in these same qualities.\nThis is called worse character."}},{"id":"an4.210:4","sourceIds":["an4.210:4.1","an4.210:4.2","an4.210:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kalyāṇadhammo?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco sammādiṭṭhiko hoti …pe… sammāñāṇī hoti, sammāvimutti hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, kalyāṇadhammo.","en":"And who has good character?\nIt’s someone who has right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom.\nThis is called good character."}},{"id":"an4.210:5","sourceIds":["an4.210:5.1","an4.210:5.2","an4.210:5.3","an4.210:5.4","an4.210:5.5","an4.210:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kalyāṇadhammena kalyāṇadhammataro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco attanā ca sammādiṭṭhiko hoti, parañca sammādiṭṭhiyā samādapeti …pe… attanā ca sammāñāṇī hoti, parañca sammāñāṇe samādapeti;\nattanā ca sammāvimutti hoti, parañca sammāvimuttiyā samādapeti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, kalyāṇadhammena kalyāṇadhammataro”ti.\nDasamaṁ.\nSappurisavaggo paṭhamo.","en":"And who has better character?\nIt’s someone who has right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom. And they encourage others in these same qualities.\nThis is called better character.”"}},{"id":"an4.210:6","sourceIds":["an4.210:6.0","an4.210:6.1","an4.210:6.2","an4.210:6.3","an4.210:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nSikkhāpadañca assaddhaṁ,\nSattakammaṁ atho ca dasakammaṁ;\nAṭṭhaṅgikañca dasamaggaṁ,\nDve pāpadhammā apare dveti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.210/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."}