“When a foolish, incompetent, untrue person has three qualities they keep themselves broken and damaged. They deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much wickedness. What three? Bad conduct by way of body, speech, and mind.

When a foolish, incompetent untrue person has these three qualities they keep themselves broken and damaged. They deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much wickedness.

When an astute, competent true person has three qualities they keep themselves intact and unscathed. They don’t deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much merit. What three? Good conduct by way of body, speech, and mind.

When an astute, competent true person has these three qualities they keep themselves intact and unscathed. They don’t deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much merit.”

The Numbered Discourses

|_【3】 The Book of the Threes

|__A. The First Fifty

|___I. The Chapter on Fools

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