dn8:19.1 There are some ascetics and brahmins who, while enjoying food given in faith, still earn a living by low lore, by wrong livelihood. …
dn8:19.3 They refrain from such low lore, such wrong livelihood.
dn8:19.4 This pertains to their accomplishment in ethics.
dn8:19.5 A mendicant thus accomplished in ethics sees no danger in any quarter in regards to their ethical restraint.
dn8:19.6 It’s like a king who has defeated his enemies. He sees no danger from his foes in any quarter.
dn8:19.7 In the same way, a mendicant thus accomplished in ethics sees no danger in any quarter in regards to their ethical restraint.
dn8:19.8 When they have this spectrum of noble ethics, they experience a blameless happiness inside themselves.
dn8:19.9 That’s how a mendicant is accomplished in ethics.
dn8:19.10 This, Kassapa, is that accomplishment in ethics. …
dn8:19.11 They enter and remain in the first absorption …
dn8:19.12 This pertains to their accomplishment in mind. …
dn8:19.13 They enter and remain in the second absorption …
dn8:19.14 third absorption …
dn8:19.15 fourth absorption.
dn8:19.16 This pertains to their accomplishment in mind.
dn8:19.17 This, Kassapa, is that accomplishment in mind.


