16. Puggalavaggo | 10 | Aṅguttara

Aṅguttara Nikāya

4. Catutthapaṇṇāsakaṃ
The Fourth Fifty

016. Puggalavaggo
I. Persons

155 (1) Associate With

Bhikkhus, one should not associate with a person who possesses 10 qualities.

What 10?

1) Wrong view,
2) wrong intention,
3) wrong speech,
4) wrong action,
5) wrong livelihood,
6) wrong effort,
7) wrong mindfulness,
8) wrong concentration,
9) wrong knowledge, and
10) wrong liberation.

- One should not associate with a person who possesses these 10 qualities.

Bhikkhus, one should associate with a person who possesses 10 qualities. What 10?

1) Right view,
2) right intention,
3) right speech,
4) right action,
5) right livelihood,
6) right effort,
7) right mindfulness,
8) right concentration,
9) right knowledge, and
10) right liberation.

- One should associate with a person who possesses these 10 qualities.

156 (2)–166 (12) Resort, Etc.

(156) Bhikkhus, one should not resort to a person who possesses 10 qualities ...one should resort to ...

(157) ...one should not attend on ...one should attend on ...
(158) ...one should not venerate ...one should venerate ...
(159) ...one should not praise ...one should praise ...
(160) ...one should not revere . . . one should revere ...

(161) ...one should not show deference to ...one should show deference to a person who possesses 10 qualities ...

(162) ...a person who possesses 10 qualities is not successful ...is successful ...
(163) ...is not purified ...is purified ...
(164) ...does not overcome conceit ...overcomes conceit  ...
(165) ...does not grow in wisdom ...grows in wisdom …

(166) ...generates much demerit ...generates much merit.

What 10?

1) Right view,
2) right intention,
3) right speech,
4) right action,
5) right livelihood,
6) right effort,
7) right mindfulness,
8) right concentration,
9) right knowledge, and
10) right liberation.

- A person who possesses these 10 qualities generates much merit.