iti.16 Itivuttaka

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.