Sutadharasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Aṅguttaranikāya · Pañcakanipāta · Chakkanipāta · Vol. 22 · Section 96

[96] Bhikkhus, a bhikkhu possessing five qualities, cultivating mindfulness of breathing (ānāpānasati), penetrates the unshakable (akuppa) in no long time. What five? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu has few undertakings and few duties; he is easy to support and easily contented with the requisites of life. He takes little food, devoted to not indulging the belly. He has little drowsiness, devoted to wakefulness. He is of great learning (bahussuta), one who retains what he has heard and accumulates what he has heard: those teachings that are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, which, with their meaning and phrasing, proclaim the holy life (brahmacariya) utterly complete and pure — such teachings he has learned much of, retained, recited verbally, examined with the mind (citta), and well penetrated by view. He reviews the mind in accordance with how it is liberated. Bhikkhus, possessing these five qualities, a bhikkhu cultivating mindfulness of breathing penetrates the unshakable in no long time.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.