SN55.53 — Dhammadinna Sutta
At one time, the Blessed One was dwelling in Benares, at the Deer Park in Isipatana. Then, the lay follower Dhammadinna, along with five hundred lay followers, approached the Blessed One. Having approached, they paid homage to the Blessed One and sat down to one side. While seated to one side, the lay follower Dhammadinna said to the Blessed One, Venerable sir, may the Blessed One advise us, may the Blessed One instruct us, for our long-term welfare and happiness.
Therefore, Dhammadinna, you should train yourselves thus: From time to time, we will enter and dwell upon those discourses spoken by the Tathāgata that are deep, profound in meaning, transcendent, and connected with emptiness. Thus should you train yourselves, Dhammadinna.
Venerable sir, it is not easy for us, living in a home crowded with children, enjoying the use of sandalwood from Kāsi, wearing garlands, scents, and unguents, and accepting gold and silver, to enter and dwell upon those discourses spoken by the Tathāgata that are deep, profound in meaning, transcendent, and connected with emptiness. Venerable sir, may the Blessed One teach us further Dhamma while we remain established in the five precepts.
Therefore, Dhammadinna, you should train yourselves thus: We will be endowed with unwavering confidence in the Buddha: Indeed, the Blessed One is the Arahant, the Perfectly Enlightened One, the Teacher of gods and humans, the Buddha, the Blessed One. We will be endowed with unwavering confidence in the Dhamma... in the Sangha... We will be endowed with the virtues dear to the noble ones, unbroken... conducive to concentration. Thus should you train yourselves, Dhammadinna.
Venerable sir, the four factors of stream-entry that have been taught by the Blessed One are present in us, and we are seen in those qualities. For we, venerable sir, are endowed with unwavering confidence in the Buddha: Indeed, the Blessed One is the Arahant, the Perfectly Enlightened One, the Teacher of gods and humans, the Buddha, the Blessed One. We are endowed with unwavering confidence in the Dhamma... in the Sangha... We are endowed with the virtues dear to the noble ones, unbroken... conducive to concentration.
Fortunate are you, Dhammadinna, well-gained are you, Dhammadinna. You have declared the fruit of stream-entry.