(Another Discourse)

Monks, I am content with this progress. My mind is content with this progress. So arouse still more energy to attain the unattained, to achieve the unachieved, to realize the unrealized. I shall wait here at Sāvatthī for the Komudi full moon of the fourth month.

The Monks of the countryside heard: The Perfectly Enlightened One will wait there at the Sāvatthī for the Komudi full moon of the fourth month. And the Monks of the countryside left in due course for Sāvatthī to see The Perfectly Enlightened One.

And elder Monks - the Venerable Sāriputta, the Venerable Mahā Moggallāna, the Venerable Mahā Kassapa, the Venerable Mahā Kaccāna, the Venerable Mahā Koțthita, the Venerable Mahā Kappina, the Venerable Mahā Cunda, the Venerable Anuruddha, the Venerable Revata, the Venerable Ānanda, and other very well-known elder disciples - intensively taught and instructed new Monks; some elder Monks taught and instructed ten new Monks, some elder Monks taught and instructed twenty .. thirty ... forty Monks. And the new Monks, taught and instructed by the elder Monks, achieved successive stages of high distinction.

On that occasion — the Uposatha day of the fifteenth the full-moon night of the Komudī full moon of the fourth month - The Perfectly Enlightened One ... addressed them thus:

Monks, this assembly is free from unbeneficial speech, this assembly is free from idle chatter. It consists purely of heartwood. Such is this Community of Monks, such is this assembly.

Such an assembly as is worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of respectful salutation, an incomparable field of merit for the world - such is this Community of Monks, such is this assembly.

Such an assembly that a small gift given to it becomes great and a great gift greater - such is this Community of Monks, such is this assembly.

Such an assembly as is rare for the world to see - such is this Community of Monks, such is this assembly.

Such an assembly as would be worth journeying many leagues with a travel bag to see - such is this Community of Monks, such is this assembly.