{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti104/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti104","id":"suttacentral_iti104","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti104/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, take a mendicant who is accomplished in ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom. They advise and instruct. They educate, encourage, fire up, and inspire, and can rightly explain the true teaching. Even the sight of those mendicants is very helpful, I say. Even to hear them, approach them, pay homage to them, recollect them, or go forth after them is very helpful, I say. Why is that? For one who frequents and associates with such mendicants, their incomplete spectrum of ethics is completed. Their incomplete spectrum of immersion \u2026 wisdom \u2026 freedom \u2026 knowledge and vision of freedom is completed. Such mendicants are called \u2018teachers\u2019, \u2018caravan leaders\u2019, \u2018strife-discarders\u2019, \u2018dispellers of darkness\u2019, \u2018bringers of light\u2019, \u2018luminaries\u2019, \u2018lamps\u2019, \u2018candlebearers\u2019, \u2018beacons\u2019, \u2018noble ones\u2019, and \u2018clear-eyed ones\u2019.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cThis is a reason for joy for those who understand: that is, those who are evolved, the noble ones living righteously. They illuminate the true teaching, beacons beaming light, the attentive ones bringing light, clear-eyed ones with strife discarded. Having heard their instruction, the astute, understanding rightly, directly know the ending of rebirth, they come not back to future lives.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Accomplished in Ethics","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":230}