Kathāsutta

Suttapiṭaka · Aṅguttaranikāya · Pañcakanipāta · Chakkanipāta · Vol. 22 · Section 97

[97] Bhikkhus, a bhikkhu possessing five qualities, while developing mindfulness of breathing (ānāpānasati), in no long time penetrates the unshakable (akuppa). What five? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu has few undertakings and few duties; he is easy to support and well content with the requisites of life. He takes little food and is devoted to not indulging the belly. He has little drowsiness and is devoted to wakefulness. He gains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, that talk which is conducive to effacement and helpful for the opening of the mind — namely, talk on wanting little, talk on contentment, talk on seclusion, talk on non-entanglement, talk on the arousing of energy, talk on virtue, talk on concentration (samādhi), talk on wisdom, talk on liberation, and talk on the knowledge and vision of liberation. He reviews the mind (citta) as it has been liberated. Bhikkhus, possessing these five qualities, a bhikkhu, while developing mindfulness of breathing, in no long time penetrates the unshakable.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.