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Cūḷa-Assapura Sutta

Sutta

Taught at Assapura, this sutta explains that it is not the robe, dwelling under a tree, chanting texts, or bathing three times daily that makes a true recluse, but the abandonment of all evil qualities.

Taught at Assapura to the assembled monks.

It is not the robe that makes the recluse, nor living under a tree, nor intoning texts, bathing three times a day, etc.

It is by putting away all the evil qualities that a man becomes a true monk. M.i.281-4.

MN 40

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