{"id":"an7.79","title":"Shines as an Expert in the Monastic Law (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an7.79","title":"Shines as an Expert in the Monastic Law (1st)","units":[{"id":"an7.79:0","sourceIds":["an7.79:0.1","an7.79:0.2","an7.79:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.79\n8. Vinayavagga\nPaṭhamavinayadharasobhanasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 7.79\n8. The Monastic Law\nShines as an Expert in the Monastic Law (1st)"}},{"id":"an7.79:1","sourceIds":["an7.79:1.1","an7.79:1.2","an7.79:1.3","an7.79:1.4","an7.79:1.5","an7.79:1.6","an7.79:1.7","an7.79:1.8","an7.79:1.9","an7.79:1.10","an7.79:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sattahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato vinayadharo sobhati.\nKatamehi sattahi?\nĀpattiṁ jānāti,\nanāpattiṁ jānāti,\nlahukaṁ āpattiṁ jānāti,\ngarukaṁ āpattiṁ jānāti,\nsīlavā hoti …pe… samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu,\ncatunnaṁ jhānānaṁ ābhicetasikānaṁ nikāmalābhī hoti akicchalābhī akasiralābhī,\nāsavānaṁ khayā …pe… sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, sattahi dhammehi samannāgato vinayadharo sobhatī”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, a mendicant with seven qualities shines as 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 heavy 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 the present 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 shines as an expert in the monastic law.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an7.79/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."}