“Mendicants, a mendicant with seven qualities shines as an expert in the monastic law. What seven? They know what is an offence. They know what is not an offence. They know what is a light offence. They know what is a serious offence. They’re ethical, restrained in the code of conduct, with appropriate behavior and means of collecting alms; seeing danger in the slightest flaw, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken. They get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in the present life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty. They realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom in this very life, and live having realized it with their own insight due to the end of defilements. A mendicant with these seven qualities shines as an expert in the monastic law.”