{"id":"an3.3","title":"Thinking","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.3","title":"Thinking","units":[{"id":"an3.3:0","sourceIds":["an3.3:0.1","an3.3:0.2","an3.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.3\n1. Bālavagga\nCintīsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.3\n1. Fools\nThinking"}},{"id":"an3.3:1","sourceIds":["an3.3:1.1","an3.3:1.2","an3.3:1.3","an3.3:1.4","an3.3:1.5","an3.3:1.6","an3.3:1.7","an3.3:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tīṇimāni, bhikkhave, bālassa bālalakkhaṇāni bālanimittāni bālāpadānāni.\nKatamāni tīṇi?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bālo duccintitacintī ca hoti dubbhāsitabhāsī ca dukkaṭakammakārī ca.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, bālo duccintitacintī ca abhavissa dubbhāsitabhāsī ca dukkaṭakammakārī ca, kena naṁ paṇḍitā jāneyyuṁ:\n‘bālo ayaṁ bhavaṁ asappuriso’ti?\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, bālo duccintitacintī ca hoti dubbhāsitabhāsī ca dukkaṭakammakārī ca tasmā naṁ paṇḍitā jānanti:\n‘bālo ayaṁ bhavaṁ asappuriso’ti.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, tīṇi bālassa bālalakkhaṇāni bālanimittāni bālāpadānāni.","en":"“There are these three characteristics, signs, and manifestations of a fool.\nWhat three?\nA fool thinks poorly, speaks poorly, and acts poorly.\nIf a fool didn’t think poorly, speak poorly, and act poorly, then how would the astute know of them:\n‘This worthy one is a fool, an untrue person’?\nBut since a fool does think poorly, speak poorly, and act poorly, then the astute do know of them:\n‘This worthy one is a fool, an untrue person’.\nThese are the three characteristics, signs, and manifestations of a fool."}},{"id":"an3.3:2","sourceIds":["an3.3:2.1","an3.3:2.2","an3.3:2.3","an3.3:2.4","an3.3:2.5","an3.3:2.6","an3.3:2.7","an3.3:2.8","an3.3:2.9","an3.3:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tīṇimāni, bhikkhave, paṇḍitassa paṇḍitalakkhaṇāni paṇḍitanimittāni paṇḍitāpadānāni.\nKatamāni tīṇi?\nIdha, bhikkhave, paṇḍito sucintitacintī ca hoti subhāsitabhāsī ca sukatakammakārī ca.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, paṇḍito sucintitacintī ca abhavissa subhāsitabhāsī ca sukatakammakārī ca, kena naṁ paṇḍitā jāneyyuṁ:\n‘paṇḍito ayaṁ bhavaṁ sappuriso’ti?\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, paṇḍito sucintitacintī ca hoti subhāsitabhāsī ca sukatakammakārī ca tasmā naṁ paṇḍitā jānanti:\n‘paṇḍito ayaṁ bhavaṁ sappuriso’ti.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, tīṇi paṇḍitassa paṇḍitalakkhaṇāni paṇḍitanimittāni paṇḍitāpadānāni.\nTasmātiha …pe….\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"There are these three characteristics, signs, and manifestations of an astute person.\nWhat three?\nAn astute person thinks well, speaks well, and acts well.\nIf an astute person didn’t think well, speak well, and act well, then how would the astute know of them:\n‘This worthy one is astute, a true person’?\nBut since an astute person does think well, speak well, and act well, then the astute do know of them:\n‘This worthy one is astute, a true person’.\nThese are the three characteristics, signs, and manifestations of an astute person.\nSo you should train …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.3/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."}