AN5.114 — Andhakavindasutta

At one time, the Blessed One was staying in Andhakavinda in the land of the Magadhans.

Ānanda, those disciples who are new, recently gone forth, and have come to this Dhamma and Discipline, should be encouraged, settled, and established in five things. What five?

Come, friends, be virtuous, live restrained by the restraint of the Pātimokkha, be perfect in conduct and resort, and seeing danger in the slightest faults, train by undertaking the training precepts: thus they should be encouraged, settled, and established in the restraint of the Pātimokkha.

Come, friends, guard the doors of your sense faculties, be possessed of mindfulness and full awareness, and be endowed with careful attention and mindfulness: thus they should be encouraged, settled, and established in the restraint of the sense faculties.

Ānanda, those disciples who are new, recently gone forth, and have come to this Dhamma and Discipline, should also be encouraged, settled, and established in moderation in eating. Come, friends, be moderate in eating, and be content with what you receive: thus they should be encouraged, settled, and established.

In addition, they should be devoted to wakefulness, frequenting remote lodgings in forests and jungle groves, and be devoted to solitude. Come, friends, be devoted to wakefulness, frequenting remote lodgings in forests and jungle groves, and be devoted to solitude: thus they should be encouraged, settled, and established.

Finally, Ānanda, those disciples who are new, recently gone forth, and have come to this Dhamma and Discipline, should be possessed of right view, and be endowed with right vision. Come, friends, be possessed of right view, and be endowed with right vision: thus they should be encouraged, settled, and established in right vision.

Ānanda, those disciples who are new, recently gone forth, and have come to this Dhamma and Discipline, should be encouraged, settled, and established in these five things.