# 93 (2) Solitude Anguttara nikaya book of threes

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> **This is what wanderers of other sects** prescribe as solitude with respect to lodgings: a forest, the foot of a tree, a charnel ground, remote lodgings in forests and jungle groves, the open air, a heap of straw, a chaff-house. That is what wanderers of other sects prescribe as solitude with respect to lodgings. These are the three kinds of solitude that wanderers of other sects prescribe.
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> **In this Dhamma and Discipline, bhikkhus,** there are these three kinds of solitude for a bhikkhu. What three? Here, (1) a bhikkhu is virtuous; he has abandoned immorality and remains secluded from it. (2) He holds right view; he has abandoned wrong view and remains secluded from it. (3) He is one whose taints are destroyed: he has abandoned the taints and remains secluded from them