Will the Real Chief Please Stand Up by Bhante Aggacitta

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Will the Real Chief Please Stand Upby Bhante Aggacitta

Āyasmā Ānanda explained, “The bhikkhu whom other bhikkhus now venerate, respect, esteem and honour, on whom they live in dependence, venerating and respecting him, is anyone who possesses the ten qualities inspiring confidence declared by the Buddha, i.e.

1. moral purity according to monastic standards,

2. being learned, well-versed and experienced in the Dhamma,

3. contentment with the four requisites,

4. skill in attaining the four jhānas,

5. psychic powers,

6. divine ear,

7. ability to read others’ minds,

8. recollection of one’s own past lives,

9. divine eye that sees the continual deaths and rebirths of other beings according to their kamma, and

10. arahantship.”

Sukhi Hotu,

Terence