The Word of the Buddha The Word of Another

¶ 11A shameless and morally reckless person is negligent. Being negligent, they are incapable of giving up disrespect, unruliness, and bad friendship. Being a bad friend, they are incapable of giving up disbelief, uncharitableness, and idleness. Being idle, they are incapable of giving up restlessness, lack of restraint, and unprincipled behavior. Being unprincipled, they are incapable of giving up lack of desire to see the Noble Ones, lack of desire to hear the Noble Dhamma, and a fault-finding attitude. Having a fault-finding attitude, they are incapable of giving up forgetfulness, lack of clear awareness, and scattering of mind. Being of scattered mind, they are incapable of giving up superficial attention, following a wrong path, and sluggishness of mind. Having a sluggish mind, they are incapable of giving up personal existence view, doubt, and clinging to rules and observances. Having doubt, they are incapable of giving up passion, aversion, and delusion. Without giving up passion, aversion, and delusion, they are incapable of giving up birth, old age, and death.