There are these three sources that give rise to deeds.

There are two places waiting to receive an unethical person

Mendicants, someone with five qualities is cast down to hell.

What evil did you do by body, speech and mind to have come to this ghost world?

Some time later I see that they have indeed been reborn in hell, where they experience exclusively painful feelings, sharp and severe.

There are animals who are born, live, and die in darkness.

The fault apparent in the present life, and the fault to do with lives to come.

Better it is to live one day wise and meditative

Bhikkhus, there are these three eyes.

Then I was disenchanted by the body, and I became dispassionate.

How do you get wisdom?

You can get to know a person’s wisdom by discussion.

Just as a rain cloud would settle the dust blown up by the wind…

There are teachings grouped by three that have been rightly explained by the Buddha

Loss of wealth, mendicants, is a small thing.

Who can disentangle this tangle?

A female noble disciple who grows in five ways grows nobly

But what was that spectrum of noble wisdom that the Buddha praised?

I have clearly seen with wisdom just how far the gratification in form extends.

There is no light like the sun

To give up these three things you should develop three things.

How is a person who is wise, no idiot defined?

Wisdom springs from meditation

And how is a mendicant’s mind well consolidated with wisdom?

Those beings are thoroughly deprived who are deprived of noble wisdom.

Mendicants, there are these five faculties.

He has great wisdom, widespread wisdom, joyful wisdom, fast wisdom, sharp wisdom, and penetrating wisdom.

…blame and praise do not affect the wise.

One who possesses three qualities should be known as a wise person.

Mendicants, there are these four kinds of brightness.

If they’re not reborn in a heavenly realm, but return to the human realm, then wherever they’re reborn they’re very wise.

Live with a protector, monks, and not without a protector.

There are things to be abandoned … having repeatedly seen with wisdom.

Reverends, all things have what as their root?

Just as the peak is the chief part of a peaked-roof house…

The sentient beings who are wise … are few

There is no meditative concentration for him who lacks insight

They neither accept nor receive gold and currency. They have set aside gems and gold, and quit using gold and currency

A righteous life, a spiritual life, they call this the supreme treasure.

These five future dangers, unarisen at present, will arise in the future

Oh, what bliss! Oh, what bliss!

This spiritual life is lived with training as its benefit, with wisdom as its overseer, with freedom as its core, and with mindfulness as its ruler.

People tied to sensual pleasures envy them: the isolated, wandering sage

These days the mendicants live using wood blocks as pillows, and they meditate diligently and keenly.

I left behind the house and went forth.

Jute canvas is ugly, unpleasant to touch, and worthless whether it’s new, worn in, or worn out.

They should be content even with coarse food

There are these five kinds of suffering for an ascetic.

If something’s to be done, then work at it firmly

This is the ascetic life for one who has nothing.