A master thief with eight factors is not soon executed, and lives long. What eight? He doesn’t attack unprovoked. He doesn’t steal everything without exception. He doesn’t kill a woman. He doesn’t rape a girl. He doesn’t rob a monk. He doesn’t rob the royal treasury. He doesn’t work close to home. He’s skilled at hiding his booty. A master thief with these eight factors is not soon executed, and lives long.”

Numbered Discourses 8.85 9. Mindfulness Terms for the Realized One

“‘Ascetic’ is a term for the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. ‘Brahmin’, ‘Knowledge Master’, ‘Healer’, ‘Unstained’, ‘Immaculate’, ‘Knower’, and ‘Freed’ are terms for the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha.

The supreme should be attained by an ascetic,

a brahmin who has lived the life;

it should be attained by a knowledge master,

a healer.

The supreme should be attained by the unstained,

stainless and pure;

it should be attained by a knower,

who is free.

I am victorious in battle!

Released, I release others from their chains.

I am a giant completely tamed,

an adept, I am quenched.”

Numbered Discourses 8.86 9. Mindfulness With Nāgita