AN 2.40

English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato.

Translation

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40
“Mendicants, I don’t praise wrong practice for these two, for laypeople and renunciates. Because of wrong practice, neither laypeople nor renunciates succeed in completing the system of the skillful teaching.
I praise right practice for these two, for laypeople and renunciates. Because of right practice, both laypeople and renunciates succeed in completing the system of the skillful teaching.”