{"id":"an7.75","title":"An Expert in the Monastic Law (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an7.75","title":"An Expert in the Monastic Law (1st)","units":[{"id":"an7.75:0","sourceIds":["an7.75:0.1","an7.75:0.2","an7.75:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.75\n8. Vinayavagga\nPaṭhamavinayadharasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 7.75\n8. The Monastic Law\nAn Expert in the Monastic Law (1st)"}},{"id":"an7.75:1","sourceIds":["an7.75:1.1","an7.75:1.2","an7.75:1.3","an7.75:1.4","an7.75:1.5","an7.75:1.6","an7.75:1.7","an7.75:1.8","an7.75:1.9","an7.75:1.10","an7.75:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sattahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu vinayadharo hoti.\nKatamehi sattahi?\nĀpattiṁ jānāti,\nanāpattiṁ jānāti,\nlahukaṁ āpattiṁ jānāti,\ngarukaṁ āpattiṁ jānāti,\nsīlavā hoti pātimokkhasaṁvarasaṁvuto viharati ācāragocarasampanno aṇumattesu vajjesu bhayadassāvī samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu,\ncatunnaṁ jhānānaṁ ābhicetasikānaṁ diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārānaṁ nikāmalābhī hoti akicchalābhī akasiralābhī,\nāsavānaṁ khayā anāsavaṁ cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, sattahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu vinayadharo hotī”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, a mendicant with seven qualities is an expert in the monastic law.\nWhat seven?\nThey know what is an offense.\nThey know what is not an offense.\nThey know what is a light offense.\nThey know what is a serious offense.\nThey’re 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.\nThey get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty.\nThey realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom, and live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\nA mendicant with these seven qualities is an expert in the monastic law.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an7.75/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."}