Numbered Discourses 8.75

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1. Numbered Discourses 8.75
2. 8. Pairs
3. Accomplishments (1st)
4. “Mendicants, there are these eight accomplishments.
5. What eight?
6. Accomplishment in initiative, protection, good friendship, and balanced finances. And accomplishment in faith, ethics, generosity, and wisdom.
7. These are the eight accomplishments.
8. They’re enterprising in the workplace,
9. diligent in managing things,
10. they balance their finances,
11. and preserve their wealth.
12. Faithful, accomplished in ethics,
13. bountiful, rid of stinginess,
14. they always purify the path
15. to well-being in lives to come.
16. And so these eight qualities
17. of a faithful householder
18. are declared by the one who is truly named
19. to lead to happiness in both spheres,
20. welfare and benefit in this life,
21. and happiness in lives to come.
22. This is how, for a householder,
23. merit grows by generosity.”