iti.16 Itivuttaka

The Learner

This was said by the Lord…

“Bhikkhus, in regard to internal factors, I do not perceive another single factor so helpful as wise attention for a bhikkhu who is a learner, who has not attained perfection but lives aspiring for the supreme security from bondage. Bhikkhus, a bhikkhu who wisely attends abandons what is unwholesome and develops what is wholesome.”

For a bhikkhu who is a learner
There is no other thing so helpful
For reaching the highest goal
As the factor wise attention.
Wisely striving a bhikkhu may attain
The destruction of all suffering.

- Translator: John D. Ireland

- Editor: Bhikkhu Sujato

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A Trainee (1st)

This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Taking into account interior factors, mendicants, I do not see a single one that is so very helpful as proper attention for a trainee mendicant who hasn’t achieved their heart’s desire, but lives aspiring to the supreme sanctuary.
A mendicant paying proper attention gives up the unskillful and develops the skillful.”
The Buddha spoke this matter.
On this it is said:
“There is nothing so helpful
for a trainee mendicant
aspiring for the ultimate goal
as proper attention.
Striving properly, a mendicant
attains the end of suffering.”
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.