sn55.24:9.1 Take another individual who doesn’t have experiential confidence in the Buddha …
sn55.24:9.2 the teaching …
sn55.24:9.3 the Saṅgha …
sn55.24:9.4 They don’t have laughing wisdom or swift wisdom, nor are they endowed with freedom.
sn55.24:9.5 Still, they have these qualities:
sn55.24:9.6 the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom.
sn55.24:9.7 And they have a degree of faith and fondness for the Buddha.
sn55.24:9.8 This individual, too, doesn’t go to hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm. They don’t go to places of loss, bad places, the underworld.
sn55.24:9.9 If these great sal trees could understand what was well said and poorly said, I’d declare them to be stream-enterers.
sn55.24:9.10 Why can’t this apply to Sarakāni?
sn55.24:9.11 Mahānāma, Sarakāni the Sakyan undertook the training at the time of his death.”