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Avannaraha Sutta: Dispraise

Avannaraha Sutta

Summary: Disprais is not good and paris is good or is even tp praise also bad? Both is good and bad, the fail to do as well as to do it.

AN 4.83 PTS: A ii 84

translated from the Pali by

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

2014-2018

- Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa -

Note of the editor: The PTS edition of the Pali-canon is mentioning this Sutta as Vaṇṇasuttaṃ (praise). I kept with in support of Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhis transaltion naming at the title given in the CSCD edition of the canon (Avaṇṇāraha Sutta).

“Bhikkhus, one possessing four qualities is deposited in hell as if brought there. What four? (1) Without investigating and scrutinizing, one speaks praise of one who deserves dispraise. (2) Without investigating and scrutinizing, one speaks dispraise of one who deserves praise. (3) Without investigating and scrutinizing, one believes a matter that merits suspicion. (4) Without investigating and scrutinizing, one is suspicious about a matter that merits belief. Possessing these four qualities one is deposited in hell as if brought there.

“Bhikkhus, one possessing four [other] qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? (1) Having investigated and scrutinized, one speaks dispraise of one who deserves dispraise. (2) Having investigated and scrutinized, one speaks praise of one who deserves praise. (3) Having investigated and scrutinized, one is suspicious about a matter that merits suspicion. (4) Having investigated and scrutinized, one believes a matter that merits belief. Possessing these four qualities one is deposited in heaven as if brought there.”

See also: AN 4.100.

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2014 Bhikkhu Bodhi, shared on the occasion ofa Dhamma teaching on 15. January 2014 on sangham.net.

Transcribed from a file provided by the translator.

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