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 There are these ten things that a person gone-forth should reflect on often. Which ten?  | 
          
      
       
 
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 'I have become casteless': a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
          
      
       
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 'My life is dependent on others': a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
          
      
       
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 'My behavior should be different [from that of householders]' : a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
          
      
       
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 'Can I fault myself with regard to my virtue? : a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
      
       
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 'Can my knowledgeable fellows in the holy life, on close examination, fault me with regard to my virtue?' : a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 'I will grow different, separate from all that is dear & appealing to me': a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 'I am the owner of my actions (kamma), heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir': a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 'What am I becoming as the days & nights fly past?': a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 'Do I delight in an empty dwelling?': a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 'Have I attained a superior human attainment, a truly noble distinction of knowledge & vision, such that — when my fellows in the holy life question me in the last days of my life — I won't feel abashed?': a person gone forth should often reflect on this.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 These are the ten things that a person gone-forth should reflect on often.  | 
         
 
      
       
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