[283] "Bhikkhus, there are these six principles conducive to cordial remembrance (sāraṇīyā dhammā), which create affection and create respect, and which conduce to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity. What six?
Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu maintains bodily action imbued with loving-kindness (mettā) toward his fellows in the holy life, both openly and in private. This too is a principle conducive to cordial remembrance, creating affection and creating respect, which conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
"Furthermore, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu maintains verbal action imbued with loving-kindness … he maintains mental action imbued with loving-kindness toward his fellows in the holy life, both openly and in private. This too is a principle conducive to cordial remembrance, creating affection and creating respect, which conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
"Furthermore, bhikkhus, whatever righteous gains a bhikkhu has, righteously obtained — even the mere contents of his alms-bowl — he enjoys such gains without reserving them for himself, enjoying them in common with his virtuous fellows in the holy life. This too is a principle conducive to cordial remembrance, creating affection and creating respect, which conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
"Furthermore, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu dwells possessing in common with his fellows in the holy life, both openly and in private, those virtues that are unbroken, untorn, unblemished, unmottled, liberating, praised by the wise, ungrasped, conducive to concentration (samādhi). This too is a principle conducive to cordial remembrance, creating affection and creating respect, which conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
"Furthermore, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu dwells possessing in common with his fellows in the holy life, both openly and in private, that view which is noble and emancipating, which leads the one who practises in accordance with it to the complete destruction of suffering (dukkha). This too is a principle conducive to cordial remembrance, creating affection and creating respect, which conduces to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity.
"These, bhikkhus, are the six principles conducive to cordial remembrance, which create affection and create respect, and which conduce to cohesion, to non-dispute, to concord, and to unity."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.