AN 10.71 - 10.80 If You Want

AN 10.71 If a mendicant wishes to attain spiritual heights, they should begin by practicing the code of training rules.AN 10.72 When the Buddha receives noisy visitors, several monks withdraw to a nearby forest to meditate. The Buddha praises them, saying that noise is a thorn to absorption.AN 10.73 Ten desirable things that are hard to get.AN 10.74 Ten aspects of prosperity.AN 10.75 The female lay disciple Migasālā questions Ānanda how the Buddha could have declared her father and her uncle had the same level of spiritual attainment, when one was much more strict than the other. Ānanda conveys this to the Buddha, who responds that only such as he can pass judgment, since the spiritual faculties of individuals are complex and hard to understand.AN 10.76 Without rebirth, old age, and death, there would be no teaching of Dhamma. The Buddha teaches a series of sets of three things leading to liberation.AN 10.77 A bad monk has ten bad qualities, like a crow.AN 10.78 Jain ascetics have ten bad qualities.AN 10.79 Ten ground for resentment.AN 10.80 Ten ways of removing resentment.