iti108:0.1So It Was Said 108
iti108:0.2The Book of the Fours
iti108:0.3The Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching
iti108:0.4Deceivers
iti108:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti108:2.1“Mendicants, those mendicants who are deceivers and flatterers, pompous and fake, insolent and scattered: those mendicants are no followers of mine.
iti108:2.2They’ve left this teaching and training, and they don’t achieve growth, improvement, or maturity in this teaching and training.
iti108:2.3But those mendicants who are genuine, not flatterers, attentive, amenable, and serene: those mendicants are followers of mine.
iti108:2.4They haven’t left this teaching and training, and they achieve growth, improvement, or maturity in this teaching and training.”
iti108:2.5The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti108:2.6On this it is said:
iti108:3.1“Those who are deceivers and flatterers, pompous and fake,
iti108:3.2insolent and scattered:
iti108:3.3these don’t grow in the teaching
iti108:3.4that was taught by the perfected Buddha.
iti108:4.1But those who are genuine, not flatterers, attentive,
iti108:4.2amenable, and serene:
iti108:4.3these do grow in the teaching
iti108:4.4that was taught by the perfected Buddha.”
iti108:5.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.