an.5.18 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Welfare of Others (2nd)

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




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