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# AN 4.259 · A Wilderness Dweller (Araññika Sutta)
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/an-4-259/
- Published: 2026-06-20T01:54:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:51:19.000Z
- Description: Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 4.259. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
- Tags: Buddhism, Sutta Piṭaka, Text, Indian, The Buddha, Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, Aṅguttara Nikāya, Discourse, English, Early Buddhist, Library

"Endowed with \[any of\] four qualities, a monk isn't fit to stay in isolated forest & wilderness dwellings. Which four? \[He is endowed\] with thoughts of sensuality, with thoughts of ill will, with thoughts of harmfulness, and he is a person of weak discernment, dull, a drooling idiot. Endowed with \[any of\] these four qualities, a monk isn't fit to stay in isolated forest & wilderness dwellings.

"Endowed with four qualities, a monk is fit to stay in isolated forest & wilderness dwellings. Which four? \[He is endowed\] with thoughts of renunciation, with thoughts of non-ill will, with thoughts of harmlessness, and he is a discerning person, not dull, not a drooling idiot. Endowed with these four qualities, a monk is fit to stay in isolated forest & wilderness dwellings."

See also: [MN 19](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/mn-19/); [Ud 2.10](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/ud-2-10/); [Thag 18](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/thag-18/).

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*Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.* From [Access to Insight](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.259.than.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) (BCBS Edition). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) — for free distribution only. Never sold.