Aṅguttara-Nikāya
III. Tika Nipāta
I. Bāla Vagga

III. The Book of the Threes

I. The Fool

Sutta 6

Akusala Suttaṃ

The Fool (6)

 

---

[89]

"Monks, by three characteristics
a fool is to be known.

What three?

By unprofitable deeds, words and thoughts.

These are the three characteristics
by which a fool may be known.

 

§

 

Monks, by three characteristics
a wise man is to be known.
What three?

By profitable deeds, words and thoughts.

These are the three characteristics
by which a wise man may be known.

■

Wherefore, monks, thus must ye train yourselves:

Abandoning those three conditions
by which the fool is to be known,
we will acquire and practice
those three conditions
by which the wise man is to be known.

That is how ye must train yourselves, monks."