Good friendship
Keeping company with people who encourage confidence, ethics, generosity and wisdom. The canon calls good friendship a load-bearing condition of the whole path.
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Passages where kalyāṇamittatā occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.
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Tipiṭaka · Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.54 Primary passage
Da besitzt ein ehrbarer Mensch rechtmäßig erworbenes Vermögen, das er mit seiner Anstrengung und seinem Unternehmungsgeist erarbeitet, mit seinen Händen aufgebaut und im Schweiß seines Angesichts zusammengetragen hat. Er stellt sicher, dass es bewacht und gehütet wird: ‚Wie kann ich verhindern, dass mein Vermögen von Herrschern oder Räubern weggenommen, von Feuer verzehrt, von einer Flut fortgerissen oder von ungeliebten Erben genommen wird?‘ Das nennt man die Vervollkommnung des Bewachens. Und was ist die Vervollkommnung der guten Freundschaft?
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Uṭṭhānasampadā, ārakkhasampadā, kalyāṇamittatā, samajīvitā. Katamā ca, byagghapajja, uṭṭhānasampadā? Idha, byagghapajja, kulaputto yena kammaṭṭhānena jīvikaṁ kappeti— yadi kasiyā, yadi vaṇijjāya, yadi gorakkhena, yadi issattena, yadi rājaporisena, yadi sippaññatarena— tattha dakkho hoti analaso, tatrupāyāya vīmaṁsāya samannāgato, alaṁ kātuṁ alaṁ saṁvidhātuṁ. Ayaṁ vuccati, byagghapajja, uṭṭhānasampadā. Katamā ca, byagghapajja, ārakkhasampadā? Idha, byagghapajja, kulaputtassa bhogā honti uṭṭhānavīriyādhigatā bāhābalaparicitā, sedāvakkhittā, dhammikā dhammaladdhā. Te ārakkhena guttiyā sampādeti: ‘kinti me ime bhoge neva rājāno hareyyuṁ, na corā hareyyuṁ, na aggi ḍaheyya, na udakaṁ vaheyya, na …
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Pāli commentaries · sagāthāvagga-aṭṭhakathā · Pāli
upaḍḍhamida nti thero kira rahogato cintesi – ‘‘ayaṃ samaṇadhammo nāma ovādake anusāsake kalyāṇamitte sati paccattapurisakāre ṭhitassa sampajjati, upaḍḍhaṃ kalyāṇamittato hoti, upaḍḍhaṃ paccattapurisakārato’’ti| athassa etadahosi – ‘‘ahaṃ padesañāṇe ṭhito nippadesaṃ cintetuṃ na sakkomi, satthāraṃ pucchitvā nikkaṅkho bhavissāmī’’ti| tasmā satthāraṃ upasaṅkamitvā evamāha| brahmacariyassā ti ariyamaggassa| yadidaṃ kalyāṇamittatā ti yā esā kalyāṇamittatā nāma, sā upaḍḍhaṃ, tato upaḍḍhaṃ āgacchatīti attho| iti therena ‘‘upaḍḍhupaḍḍhā sammādiṭṭhiādayo kalyāṇamittato āgacchanti, upaḍḍhupaḍḍhā paccatt
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Narrative literature · Mahāvastu-avādana · Sanskrit
kalyāṇamitrā pi taṃ dhārayensuḥ mā aprasādaṃ janaye bahubuddheḥ / na śakya eṣo vimalaprabho mahātmā cāletuṃ bhūyo munim āsanāto //
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Tipiṭaka · srm1 · Pāli
8. Kalyāṇamittādivaggavaṇṇanā 71 . Aṭṭhamassa paṭhame buddhā, sāriputtādayo vā kalyāṇamittā. Vuttapaṭipakkhanayenā ti ‘‘pāpamittatā’’ti pade vuttassa paṭipakkhanayena.
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Śaivism · āryamañjuśrīmūlakalpam Part 2 · Sanskrit
336) ālasyā mithunasaṃyogī asya siddhiḥ kuto bhavet | surāṇāṃ guravo yadya asurāṇāṃ ca yestadā || te'pi sādhayituṃ mantraṃ na śakto vidhivarjitam | vidhihīnaṃ tathā karma cittavibhramakārakam || tasmāt taṃ japenmantraṃ ayuktaṃ vidhinā vinā | bālānāṃ dṛṣṭisammohaṃ janayanti tathāvidhā || saṃmūḍhāstu tato bālā patante kaṣṭatamāṃ gatim | tataste mantradharāstasmādujjahāra tataḥ punaḥ || anupūrvyā tatah siddhiṃ prayacchanti śubhāṃ gatim | tato taṃ japinaṃ mantrā sthāpayanti śivācale || evamamoghaṃ mantrāṇāṃ japamuktaṃ tathāgataiḥ | dṛṣṭibhrānte'pi cittasya anugrahāyaiva yujyate || ete kalyāṇamitrā
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