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This was said by the Blessed One,
said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "A monk who has admirable virtue,
admirable qualities, & admirable discernment is called, in this
Dhamma-&-Vinaya, one who is complete, fulfilled, a superlative person.
"And how is a monk a person
with admirable virtue? There is the case where a monk is virtuous. He dwells
restrained in accordance with the Patimokkha, consummate in his behavior &
sphere of activity. He trains himself, having undertaken the training rules,
seeing danger in the slightest faults. In this way a monk is a person with
admirable virtue. Thus he is of admirable virtue.
"And how is a monk a person
with admirable qualities? There is the case where a monk lives devoted to
developing the seven [sets of] qualities that are wings to Awakening.*
In this way a monk is a person with admirable qualities. Thus he is of
admirable virtue & admirable qualities.
"And how is a monk a person
with admirable discernment? There is the case where a monk, through the ending
of fermentations, dwells in the release of awareness & release of
discernment that are free from fermentation, having known & made them
manifest for himself right in the present life. In this way a monk is a person
with admirable discernment. Thus he is of admirable virtue, admirable
qualities, admirable discernment. In this Dhamma-&-Vinaya he is called one
who is complete, fulfilled, a superlative person."
Devoid of wrong-doing
in thought, word, or deed,
he's called a person of admirable virtue:
the monk conscientious.
Well-developed in the qualities
that go to the attainment of self-awakening,
he's called a person of admirable qualities:
the monk unassuming.
Discerning right here for himself,
in himself,
the ending of stress
he's called a person of admirable discernment:
the monk with no fermentation.
Consummate in
these things,
untroubled, with doubt cut away,
unattached in all the world,
he's said to have abandoned
the All.
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