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2. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:97 Talk | Kathā Sutta
    … talk on modesty, contentment, seclusion, non-entanglement, arousing persistence, virtue, concentration, discernment, release, and the knowledge & vision of release. “He reflects on the mind as it is released. “Endowed with these five qualities, a monk pursuing mindfulness of breathing will in no long time penetrate the Unprovoked.”
3. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 9:1 Self-awakening | Sambodhi Sutta
    … This is the second prerequisite for the development of the wings to self-awakening. “‘And further, he gets to hear at will, easily & without difficulty, talk that is truly sobering & conducive to the opening of awareness, i.e., talk on modesty, contentment, seclusion, non-entanglement, arousing persistence, virtue, concentration, discernment, release, and the knowledge & vision of release. This is the third prerequisite for the … 
4. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:31 To Princess Sumanā | Sumanā Sutta
    … As she was sitting there, she said to him, “Suppose there were two disciples of the Blessed One, equal in conviction, equal in virtue, equal in discernment, but one was a giver of alms, the other a non-giver of alms. At the break-up of the body, after death, they would reappear in a good destination, a heavenly world. Having become devas, would … 
5. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 4:255 On Families | Kula Sutta
    … They place a woman or man of no virtue or principles in the position of authority. In every case where a family cannot hold onto its great wealth for long, it is for one or another of these four reasons. “In every case where a family can hold onto its great wealth for long, it is for one or another of these four reasons … 
6. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 6:92 Cases | Ṭhāna Sutta
    … It’s impossible for a person consummate in view to live without respect or deference for the Training [heightened virtue, heightened concentration, heightened discernment]. It’s impossible for a person consummate in view to return to that which should not be gone to.2 It’s impossible for a person consummate in view to produce an eighth state of becoming.3 “These six are … 
7. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 10:71 Wishes | Ākaṅkha Sutta
    … The Blessed One said: “Monks, dwell consummate in virtue, consummate in terms of the Pāṭimokkha. Dwell restrained in accordance with the Pāṭimokkha, consummate in your behavior & sphere of activity. Train yourselves, having undertaken the training rules, seeing danger in the slightest faults. [1] “If a monk would wish, ‘May I be dear & pleasing to my companions in the holy life, respected by & inspiring to … 
8. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 4:192 Traits | Ṭhāna Sutta
    … Which four? “It’s through living together that a person’s virtue may be known, and then only after a long period, not a short period; by one who is attentive, not by one who is inattentive; by one who is discerning, not by one who is not discerning. “It’s through dealing with a person that his purity may be known, and then … 
9. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 7:64 One With a Sense of Dhamma | Dhammaññū Sutta
    … This is one with a sense of Dhamma & a sense of meaning. “And how is a monk one with a sense of himself? There is the case where a monk knows himself: ‘This is how far I have come in conviction, virtue, learning, generosity, discernment, quick-wittedness.’ If he didn’t know himself—‘This is how far I have come in conviction, virtue, learning … 
10. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:38 Conviction | Saddha Sutta
     … So with the person consummate in virtue & conviction, humble, sensitive, gentle, delightful, & mild: To him come those without effluent— free from passion, free from aversion, free from delusion— the field of merit for the world. They teach him the Dhamma that dispels all stress. And when he understands, he is freed from effluents, totally unbound. See also: AN 5:199; Iti 107
11. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 7:56 To Kimila | Kimila Sutta
     … unbound, the monks, nuns, male lay followers, & female lay followers live without respect, without deference, for the Teacher; live without respect, without deference, for the Dhamma… the Saṅgha… the Training [heightened virtue, heightened concentration, heightened discernment]… concentration… heedfulness; live without respect, without deference, for hospitality. This is the cause, this is the reason why, when a Tathāgata has totally unbound, the true Dhamma does … 
12. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 2:31–32 Gratitude | Kataññu Suttas
     … But anyone who rouses his unbelieving mother & father, settles & establishes them in conviction; rouses his unvirtuous mother & father, settles & establishes them in virtue; rouses his stingy mother & father, settles & establishes them in generosity; rouses his foolish mother & father, settles & establishes them in discernment: To this extent one pays & repays one’s mother & father.“ See also: MN 110; SN 7:14; AN 2:118; AN … 
13. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:179 The Householder | Gihi Sutta
     … deserving of gifts, deserving of hospitality, deserving of offerings, deserving of respect, the incomparable field of merit for the world.’ This is the third pleasant mental abiding in the here & now that he has attained, for the purification of the mind that is impure, for the cleansing of the mind that is unclean. “And further, he is endowed with virtues that are appealing to … 
14. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 3:129 Putrid | Kaṭuviya Sutta
     … But those who are consummate in virtue, who delight in discernment & calm, pacified, they sleep in ease. No flies settle on them.” See also: SN 9:1; SN 9:11; SN 35:202; AN 3:15; Ud 5:5; Sn 4:7
15. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 10:99 To Upāli | Upāli Sutta
     … This, too, is part of his virtue. “Abandoning uncelibacy, he lives a celibate life, aloof, refraining from the sexual act that is the villager’s way. “Abandoning the telling of lies, he abstains from telling lies. He speaks the truth, holds to the truth, is firm, reliable, no deceiver of the world. “Abandoning divisive speech, he abstains from divisive speech. What he has heard … 
16. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 2:5 Relentlessly | Appaṭivāṇa Sutta
     … Contentment, of course, is a virtue on the path, but as AN 4:28 shows, it is a quality to be developed around the material requisites of life. As this discourse shows, it is not to be applied to mental qualities. MN 2 makes a similar point: One should endure pains and harsh words, but should not endure the presence of unskillful states in … 
17. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 10:69 Topics of Conversation (1) | Kathāvatthu Sutta
     … Which ten? Talk on modesty, contentment, seclusion, non-entanglement, arousing persistence, virtue, concentration, discernment, release, and the knowledge & vision of release. These are the ten topics of conversation. If you were to engage repeatedly in these ten topics of conversation, you would outshine even the sun & moon, so mighty, so powerful—to say nothing of the wanderers of other sects.” See also: AN 6 … 
18. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 7:47 Copulation | Methuna Sutta
     … He enjoys that, wants more of that, and luxuriates in that.… “Or… he practices the holy life intent on being born in one or another of the deva hosts, (thinking) ‘By this virtue or practice or abstinence or holy life I will be a deva of one sort or another.’ He enjoys that, wants more of that, and luxuriates in that. This is a … 
19. Aṅguttara Nikāya
     … AN 3:74  Sakka Sutta | To the Sakyan  —  By discussing the distinction between the virtue, concentration, and discernment of one in training and the virtue, concentration, and discernment of one whose training is complete, Ven. Ānanda answers the question, “Does concentration come first, and knowledge after, or does knowledge come first, and concentration after?” AN 3:77  Bhava Sutta | Becoming (1)  —  Using the analogy … 
20. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:30 To Nāgita | Nāgita Sutta
     … Why is that? Because such is the Blessed One’s virtue & discernment.” “May I have nothing to do with honor, Nāgita, and honor nothing to do with me. Whoever cannot obtain at will—without difficulty, without trouble—as I do, the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of self-awakening, let him consent to this slimy-excrement … 
21. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 4:53 Ways of Living Together | Saṁvāsa Sutta
     … Their enemies are disheartened, as both have virtue in tune.1 Having practiced the Dhamma here, both with habits & practices in tune, delighting (after death) in the world of the devas, they rejoice, enjoying sensual pleasures. Note 1. Sama, which means, “even,” “equal,” “on pitch,” or “in tune.” Throughout ancient cultures, the terminology of music was used to describe the moral quality of people … 
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