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Expressions (3rd)

Tatiyavohārasutta

Four kinds of ignoble expression by saying you do know what you don’t know.

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0.3TatiyavohārasuttaExpressions (3rd)

1.1“Cattārome, bhikkhave, anariyavohārā.“Mendicants, there are these four ignoble expressions.1.2Katame cattāro?What four?1.3Diṭṭhe adiṭṭhavāditā, sute asutavāditā, mute amutavāditā, viññāte aviññātavāditā—Saying you haven’t seen, heard, thought, or known something, and you have.1.4Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro anariyavohārā”ti.These are the four ignoble expressions.”

1.5Dasamaṁ.