iti104:0.1So It Was Said 104
iti104:0.2The Book of the Fours
iti104:0.3The Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching
iti104:0.4Accomplished in Ethics
iti104:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti104:2.1“Mendicants, take a mendicant who is accomplished in ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom. They advise and instruct. They educate, encourage, fire up, and inspire, and can rightly explain the true teaching. Even the sight of those mendicants is very helpful, I say.
iti104:2.2Even to hear them,
iti104:2.3approach them,
iti104:2.4pay homage to them,
iti104:2.5recollect them,
iti104:2.6or go forth after them is very helpful, I say.
iti104:2.7Why is that?
iti104:2.8For one who frequents and associates with such mendicants, their incomplete spectrum of ethics is completed. Their incomplete spectrum of immersion … wisdom … freedom … knowledge and vision of freedom is completed.
iti104:2.9Such mendicants are called ‘teachers’, ‘caravan leaders’, ‘strife-discarders’, ‘dispellers of darkness’, ‘bringers of light’, ‘luminaries’, ‘lamps’, ‘candlebearers’, ‘beacons’, ‘noble ones’, and ‘clear-eyed ones’.”
iti104:2.10The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti104:2.11On this it is said:
iti104:3.1“This is a reason for joy
iti104:3.2for those who understand:
iti104:3.3that is, those who are evolved,
iti104:3.4the noble ones living righteously.
iti104:4.1They illuminate the true teaching,
iti104:4.2beacons beaming light,
iti104:4.3the attentive ones bringing light,
iti104:4.4clear-eyed ones with strife discarded.
iti104:5.1Having heard their instruction,
iti104:5.2the astute, understanding rightly,
iti104:5.3directly know the ending of rebirth,
iti104:5.4they come not back to future lives.”
iti104:6.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.