{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an2.62/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an2.62","id":"suttacentral_an2.62","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an2.62/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, I will teach you about living with bad people and living with good people. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cWhat is it like living with bad people? How do bad people live together? It\u2019s when a senior mendicant thinks: \u2018No mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior, should admonish me; and I shouldn\u2019t admonish any mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior. If a mendicant\u2014whether senior, middle, or junior\u2014were to admonish me, they wouldn\u2019t be sympathetic, and I\u2019d bother them by saying \u201cNo!\u201d And anyway I wouldn\u2019t deal with it even if I saw what I did wrong.\u2019 And a middle or a junior mendicant also thinks: \u2018No mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior, should admonish me; and I shouldn\u2019t admonish any mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior. If a mendicant\u2014whether senior, middle, or junior\u2014were to admonish me, they wouldn\u2019t be sympathetic, and I\u2019d bother them by saying \u201cNo!\u201d And anyway I wouldn\u2019t deal with it even if I saw what I did wrong.\u2019 That\u2019s what it\u2019s like living with bad people; that\u2019s how bad people live together. What is it like living with good people? How do good people live together? It\u2019s when a senior mendicant thinks: \u2018Any mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior, should admonish me; and I should admonish any mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior. If a mendicant\u2014whether senior, middle, or junior\u2014were to admonish me, they\u2019d be sympathetic, so I wouldn\u2019t bother them, but say \u201cThank you!\u201d And I\u2019d deal with it when I saw what I did wrong.\u2019 And a middle or a junior mendicant also thinks: \u2018Any mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior, may admonish me; and I\u2019ll admonish any mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior. If a mendicant\u2014whether senior, middle, or junior\u2014were to admonish me, they\u2019d be sympathetic, so I wouldn\u2019t bother them, but say \u201cThank you!\u201d And I\u2019d deal with it when I saw what I did wrong.\u2019 That\u2019s what it\u2019s like living with good people; that\u2019s how good people live together.\u201d","title":"62","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":341}