an.5.153 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Inevitability Regarding the Right Path (3rd)

Someone with five qualities is able to enter the sure path with regards to skillful qualities when listening to the true teaching.
What five?
“Mendicants, someone with five qualities is unable to enter the sure path with regards to skillful qualities even when listening to the true teaching.
What five?
They listen to the teaching bent only on putting it down. They listen to the teaching with a hostile, fault-finding mind. They’re antagonistic to the teacher, planning to attack them. They’re witless, dull, and stupid. And they think they know what they don’t know.
Someone with these five qualities is unable to enter the sure path with regards to skillful qualities even when listening to the true teaching.
They don’t listen to the teaching bent only on putting it down. They don’t listen to the teaching with a hostile, fault-finding mind. They’re not antagonistic to the teacher, and not planning to attack them. They’re wise, bright, and clever. And they don’t think they know what they don’t know.
Someone with these five qualities is able to enter the sure path with regards to skillful qualities when listening to the true teaching.”