AN 7.85 — A Mendicant

English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato.

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Numbered Discourses 7.85
9. An Ascetic
A Mendicant
“Mendicants, it’s because of breaking seven things that you become a mendicant. What seven? Substantialist view, doubt, misapprehension of precepts and observances, greed, hate, delusion, and conceit. It’s because of breaking these seven things that you become a mendicant.”