{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.11/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.11","id":"suttacentral_an10.11","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.11/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a mendicant with five factors, using and frequenting lodgings with five factors, will soon realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they will live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. And how does a mendicant have five factors? It\u2019s when a noble disciple has faith in the Realized One\u2019s awakening: \u2018That Blessed One is perfected, a fully awakened Buddha, accomplished in knowledge and conduct, holy, knower of the world, supreme guide for those fit for training, teacher of gods and humans, awakened, blessed.\u2019 They are rarely ill or unwell. Their stomach digests well, being neither too hot nor too cold, but just right, and fit for meditation. They\u2019re not devious or deceitful. They reveal themselves honestly to the Teacher or sensible spiritual companions. They live with energy roused up for giving up unskillful qualities and embracing skillful qualities. They\u2019re strong, staunchly vigorous, not slacking off when it comes to developing skillful qualities. They\u2019re wise. They have the wisdom of arising and passing away which is noble, penetrative, and leads to the complete ending of suffering. That\u2019s how a mendicant has five factors. And how does a lodging have five factors? It\u2019s when a lodging is neither too far nor too near, but convenient for coming and going. It\u2019s not bothered by people by day, and at night it\u2019s quiet and still. There\u2019s little disturbance from flies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, and reptiles. While staying in that lodging the necessities of life\u2014robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick\u2014are easy to come by. And in that lodging there are several senior mendicants who are very learned, inheritors of the heritage, who have memorized the teachings, the monastic law, and the outlines. From time to time they go up to those mendicants and ask them questions: \u2018Why, sir, does it say this? What does that mean?\u2019 Those venerables reveal what is hidden, clarify what is unclear, and dispel doubt regarding the many doubtful matters. That\u2019s how a lodging has five factors. A mendicant with five factors, using and frequenting lodgings with five factors, will soon realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they will live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\u201d","title":"Lodgings","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":391}