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# SN 2.3 · Conscience (Hiri Sutta)
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-2-3/
- Published: 2026-06-20T00:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:57:18.000Z
- Description: Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 2.3. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
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One who, flouting, despising a sense of conscience, saying, "I am your friend," but not grasping what he could do \[to help\]: know him as "Not my friend." One who, among friends, speaks endearing words to which he doesn't conform, the wise recognize as speaking without doing. He's not a friend who's always wary, suspecting a split, focusing just on your weakness. But him on whom you can depend, like a child on its parent's breast: that's a true friend whom others can't split from you. Carrying one's manly burden, the fruits & rewards develop the conditions that make for joy, the bliss that brings praise. Drinking the nourishment, the flavor, of seclusion & calm, one is freed from evil, devoid of distress, refreshed with the nourishment of rapture in the Dhamma.\[1\] 

# Note

1.

This last verse = Dhp 205.

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