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an.2.40 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

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“Mendicants, I don’t praise wrong practice for these two, for laypeople and renunciates.
Because of wrong practice, neither laypeople nor renunciates succeed in completing the procedure of the skillful teaching.
I praise right practice for these two, for laypeople and renunciates.
Because of right practice, both laypeople and renunciates succeed in completing the procedure of the skillful teaching.”