Ekanipāta

Suttapiṭaka · Aṅguttaranikāya · Ekakanipāta · Dukanipāta · Tikanipāta · Vol. 20 · Section 115

[115] Bhikkhus, I do not see even one other thing that leads so much to the decline and disappearance of the true Dhamma (saddhamma) as heedlessness (pamāda). Heedlessness, bhikkhus, leads to the decline and disappearance of the true Dhamma.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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