Saṅgītisutta

Suttapiṭaka · Dīghanikāya · Pāthikavagga · Vol. 11 · Section 317

[317] Six principles of cordiality (sāraṇīyā dhammā). Here, friends, a bhikkhu maintains bodily acts of loving-kindness toward his companions in the holy life (sabrahmacārī), both in public and in private. This is a principle of cordiality, creating affection, creating respect, conducing to inclusion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity. Again, friends, a bhikkhu maintains verbal acts of loving-kindness … . He maintains mental acts of loving-kindness toward his companions in the holy life, both in public and in private. This too is a principle of cordiality … conduces to unity. Again, friends, a bhikkhu—with regard to whatever righteous gains, righteously obtained, even so much as the mere contents of the alms-bowl—is one who shares such gains without reservation, one who uses them in common with his virtuous companions in the holy life. This too is a principle of cordiality … conduces to unity. Again, friends, a bhikkhu dwells having attained to sameness of virtue, together with his companions in the holy life, both in public and in private, in such virtues as are unbroken, untorn, unblemished, unmottled, liberating, praised by the wise, ungrasped, and conducing to concentration (samādhi). This too is a principle of cordiality … conduces to unity. Again, friends, a bhikkhu dwells having attained to sameness of view, together with his companions in the holy life, both in public and in private, in such a view as is noble and emancipating, which leads the one who acts upon it to the complete destruction of suffering (dukkha). This too is a principle of cordiality, creating affection, creating respect, conducing to inclusion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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