Numbered Discourses 10.12

2. A Protector

Five Factors

“Bhikkhus, in this teaching and training a bhikkhu who has given up five factors and possesses five factors is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person.

And how has a bhikkhu given up five factors? It’s when a bhikkhu has given up sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt. That’s how a bhikkhu has given up five factors.

And how does a bhikkhu have five factors? It’s when a bhikkhu has the entire spectrum of an adept’s ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and knowledge and vision of freedom. That’s how a bhikkhu has five factors.

In this teaching and training a bhikkhu who has given up five factors and possesses five factors is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person.

Sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness, and doubt are not found in a bhikkhu at all.

One like this is accomplished in an adept’s ethics, an adept’s immersion, and freedom and knowledge.

Possessing these five factors, and rid of five factors, in this teaching and training they’re called ‘consummate’.”