an.5.17 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

One’s Own Welfare

“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is practicing for their own welfare, but not that of others.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is personally accomplished in ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom. But they don’t encourage others in these qualities.




A mendicant with these five qualities is practicing for their own welfare, but not that of others.”