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reverence, a speaker of profitable things, meek, clever in admonition, in instruction, and in education, able to arouse, to incite, to gladden—such a friend should he choose as teacher. This, o king, is the first of the qualities of the monkey he ought to have.
22. “And again, O king, as the monkey wanders about, and stands and sits, always on trees, and, if he goes to sleep, spends the night on them; just so, O king, should the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, stand and walk up and down thinking, [374] and lie down, and sleep, in the forest, and there enjoy the sense of self-possession. This, o king, is the second of the qualities of the monkey he ought to bave. For it has been said, O king, by Sâriputta, the Elder, the Commander of the Faith : “Walking, or standing, sitting, lying down, 'Tis in the forest that the Bhikshu shines. To dwell in wildernesses far remote Has been exalted by the Buddhas all ?." '
Here ends the First Chapter 8.
1 For the last six words, none of which are in Childers, see Magghima Nikaya I, 145, 6, and below, VII, 2, 20.
Not traced as yet. • The Kambojan MS, in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, ends here,
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