Numbered Discourses 5.3

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1. Numbered Discourses 5.3
2. 1. Powers of a Trainee
3. Suffering
4. “Mendicants, when a mendicant has five qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad rebirth.
5. What five?
6. It’s when a mendicant is faithless, shameless, imprudent, lazy, and witless.
7. When a mendicant has these five qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad rebirth.
8. When a mendicant has five qualities they live happily in this very life—without distress, distress, or fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a good rebirth.
9. What five?
10. It’s when a mendicant is faithful, conscientious, prudent, energetic, and wise.
11. When a mendicant has these five qualities they live happily in this very life—without distress, anguish, or fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a good rebirth.”