[542] Then the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: "Bhikkhus, there are these six principles of cordiality (sāraṇīyā dhammā) that create affection and create respect, and that conduce to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity. What six? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu maintains bodily acts of loving-kindness (mettā) toward his companions in the holy life, both openly and in private. This too is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and creates respect, and that conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
Again, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu maintains verbal acts of loving-kindness toward his companions in the holy life, both openly and in private. This too is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and creates respect, and that conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
Again, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu maintains mental acts of loving-kindness toward his companions in the holy life, both openly and in private. This too is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and creates respect, and that conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
Again, bhikkhus, whatever righteous gains a bhikkhu has, righteously obtained — even if only what is contained in his alms-bowl — he does not use such gains without sharing them; he uses them in common with his virtuous companions in the holy life. This too is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and creates respect, and that conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
Again, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu dwells possessed of virtues in common with his companions in the holy life, both openly and in private — virtues that are unbroken, untorn, unblemished, unmottled, liberating, praised by the wise, ungrasped-at, conducive to concentration (samādhi). This too is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and creates respect, and that conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
Again, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu dwells possessed of a view in common with his companions in the holy life, both openly and in private — that view which is noble and emancipating, which leads the one who practices in accordance with it out to the complete destruction of suffering (dukkha). This too is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and creates respect, and that conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
These, bhikkhus, are the six principles of cordiality that create affection and create respect, and that conduce to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity. Of these six principles of cordiality, bhikkhus, this is the chief, this is the binder, this is the unifier: namely, that view which is noble and emancipating, which leads the one who practices in accordance with it out to the complete destruction of suffering. Just as, bhikkhus, in a peaked house this is the chief, this is the binder, this is the unifier — namely, the peak — even so, bhikkhus, of these six principles of cordiality, this is the chief, this is the binder, this is the unifier: namely, that view which is noble and emancipating, which leads the one who practices in accordance with it out to the complete destruction of suffering.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.