{"id":"an3.42","title":"Three Grounds","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.42","title":"Three Grounds","units":[{"id":"an3.42:0","sourceIds":["an3.42:0.1","an3.42:0.2","an3.42:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.42\n5. Cūḷavagga\nTiṭhānasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.42\n5. The Lesser Chapter\nThree Grounds"}},{"id":"an3.42:1","sourceIds":["an3.42:1.1","an3.42:1.2","an3.42:1.3","an3.42:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tīhi, bhikkhave, ṭhānehi saddho pasanno veditabbo.\nKatamehi tīhi?\nSīlavantānaṁ dassanakāmo hoti, saddhammaṁ sotukāmo hoti, vigatamalamaccherena cetasā agāraṁ ajjhāvasati muttacāgo payatapāṇi vossaggarato yācayogo dānasaṁvibhāgarato.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, tīhi ṭhānehi saddho pasanno veditabbo.","en":"“There are three grounds, mendicants, by which a person with faith and confidence can be known.\nWhat three?\nThey like to see ethical people. They like to hear the true teaching. And they live at home with heart rid of the stain of stinginess, freely generous, open-handed, loving to let go, committed to charity, loving to give and to share.\nThese are the three grounds by which a person with faith and confidence can be known."}},{"id":"an3.42:2","sourceIds":["an3.42:2.1","an3.42:2.2","an3.42:2.3","an3.42:2.4","an3.42:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dassanakāmo sīlavataṁ,\nsaddhammaṁ sotumicchati;\nVinaye maccheramalaṁ,\nsa ve saddhoti vuccatī”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"They like to see ethical people;\nthey want to hear the true teaching;\nthey’ve driven out the stain of stinginess:\nthat’s who’s called an individual of faith.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.42/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."}