← Aṅguttara NikāyaAN4.262Numbered Discourses 4.262SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Numbered Discourses 4.26226. InsightWilderness“Mendicants, when a mendicant has four qualities they’re not ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest.What four?They have sensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts; or they’re witless, dull, and idiotic.When a mendicant has these four qualities they’re not ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest.When a mendicant has four qualities they’re ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest.What four?They have thoughts of renunciation, good will, and harmlessness; and they’re wise, bright, and clever.When a mendicant has these four qualities they’re ready to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest.”