“Bhikkhus, someone with five qualities is unable to enter the sure path in regard to beneficial qualities even when listening to the true teaching. What five? They discredit the talk, the speaker, or themselves. They listen with a scattered and distracted mind. They attend not-through-the-origin. Someone with these five qualities is unable to enter the sure path in regard to beneficial qualities even when listening to the true teaching.
Someone with five qualities is able to enter the sure path in regard to beneficial qualities when listening to the true teaching. What five? They don’t discredit the talk, the speaker, or themselves. They listen with an unscattered and unified mind. They attend through-the-origin. *As stated [here](https://suttas.hillsidehermitage.org/?q=mn43#mn43:13.1-mn43:13.4), right view can only arise when the utterance of another is paired with _yoniso manasikāra_, on which see [MN 2](https://suttas.hillsidehermitage.org/?q=mn2). Someone with these five qualities is able to enter the sure path in regard to beneficial qualities when listening to the true teaching.”
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