{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.104/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.104","id":"suttacentral_an5.104","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.104/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is a delicate ascetic of ascetics. What five? It\u2019s when a mendicant usually uses only what they\u2019ve been invited to accept\u2014robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick\u2014rarely using them without invitation. When living with other spiritual practitioners, they usually find themselves treated agreeably by them by way of body, speech, and mind, and rarely disagreeably. And they are usually presented with agreeable things by them, rarely with disagreeable ones. They\u2019re healthy, so the various unpleasant feelings\u2014stemming from disorders of bile, phlegm, wind, or their conjunction; or caused by change in weather, by not taking care of themselves, by exertion, or as the result of past deeds\u2014usually don\u2019t come up. They get the four absorptions\u2014blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind\u2014when they want, without trouble or difficulty. And they realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. A mendicant with these five qualities is a delicate ascetic of ascetics. And if anyone should be rightly called a delicate ascetic of ascetics, it\u2019s me. For I usually use only what I\u2019ve been invited to accept. When living with other mendicants, I am usually treated agreeably by them. And I usually present them with agreeable things. I\u2019m healthy. I get the four absorptions when I want, without trouble or difficulty. And I\u2019ve realized the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom \u2026 in this very life \u2026 So if anyone should be rightly called a delicate ascetic of ascetics, it\u2019s me.\u201d","title":"A Delicate Ascetic of Ascetics","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":274}