Academic | Sutta Name | Notes | PSA Plae | Vagga | Nikaya | PTS | Keywords |
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AN.IV.181 | Yodha Sutta | Comparison between four qualities of a professional soldiers and those of a monk: 1. Just as a soldier must know strategy and vantage points, a monk must be possessed of pure Precepts [siila]; 2. Just as a soldier must be able to shoot far, a monk must be able to consider the Five Aggregates [khanda] according to their reality; 3. Just as a soldier must be able to shoot accurately, a monk must be able to have insight into suffering according to the principles of the Four Noble Truths, and; 4. Just as a soldier must be able to destroy even the large-bodied, a monk must be able to destroy even large bodies of ignorance [avijjaa]. | 35/438 | Catukanipaata Catuttha Pa.n.naasaka | A"nguttara | A.ii. |