{"id":"an4.208","title":"Bad Character (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.208","title":"Bad Character (2nd)","units":[{"id":"an4.208:0","sourceIds":["an4.208:0.1","an4.208:0.2","an4.208:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.208\n21. Sappurisavagga\nDutiyapāpadhammasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.208\n21. A True Person\nBad Character (2nd)"}},{"id":"an4.208:1","sourceIds":["an4.208:1.1","an4.208:1.2","an4.208:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pāpañca vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi, pāpena pāpatarañca;\nkalyāṇañca, kalyāṇena kalyāṇatarañca.\nTaṁ suṇātha …pe…","en":"“Mendicants, I will teach you who’s bad and who’s worse,\nwho’s good and who’s better."}},{"id":"an4.208:2","sourceIds":["an4.208:2.1","an4.208:2.2","an4.208:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Katamo ca, bhikkhave, pāpo?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco micchādiṭṭhiko hoti …pe… micchāñāṇī hoti, micchāvimutti hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, pāpo.","en":"And who’s bad?\nIt’s someone who has wrong view, wrong purpose, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, wrong immersion, wrong knowledge, and wrong freedom.\nThis is called bad."}},{"id":"an4.208:3","sourceIds":["an4.208:3.1","an4.208:3.2","an4.208:3.3","an4.208:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, pāpena pāpataro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco attanā ca micchādiṭṭhiko hoti, parañca micchādiṭṭhiyā samādapeti …pe… attanā ca micchāñāṇī hoti, parañca micchāñāṇe samādapeti;\nattanā ca micchāvimutti hoti, parañca micchāvimuttiyā samādapeti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, pāpena pāpataro.","en":"And who’s worse?\nIt’s someone who has wrong view, wrong purpose, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, wrong immersion, wrong knowledge, and wrong freedom. And they encourage others in these same qualities.\nThis is called worse."}},{"id":"an4.208:4","sourceIds":["an4.208:4.1","an4.208:4.2","an4.208:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kalyāṇo?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco sammādiṭṭhiko hoti …pe… sammāñāṇī hoti, sammāvimutti hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, kalyāṇo.","en":"And who’s good?\nIt’s someone who has right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom.\nThis is called good."}},{"id":"an4.208:5","sourceIds":["an4.208:5.1","an4.208:5.2","an4.208:5.3","an4.208:5.4","an4.208:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kalyāṇena kalyāṇataro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco attanā ca sammādiṭṭhiko hoti, parañca sammādiṭṭhiyā samādapeti …pe… attanā ca sammāñāṇī hoti, parañca sammāñāṇe samādapeti;\nattanā ca sammāvimutti hoti, parañca sammāvimuttiyā samādapeti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, kalyāṇena kalyāṇataro”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"And who’s better?\nIt’s someone who has right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom. And they encourage others in these same qualities.\nThis is called better.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.208/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."}