Eight Marvelous Qualities – One
“Similarly, bhikkhus, there are eight wonderful and marvellous qualities in this Dhamma and Discipline, seeing which bhikkhus delight in this Dhamma and Discipline. What are the eight?
(1) “Just as the great ocean gradually shelves, slopes, and inclines, and there is no sudden precipice, so also in this Dhamma and Discipline there is a gradual training, a gradual course, a gradual progression, and there is no sudden penetration to final knowledge. Since, in this Dhamma and Discipline there is a gradual training,… this is the first wonderful and marvellous quality in this Dhamma and Discipline, seeing which bhikkhus delight in this Dhamma and Discipline.
“Uposatha Sutta: The Observance Day” (Ud 5.5), translated from the Pali by John D. Ireland. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 13 June 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.5.05.irel.html .