{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.146/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.146","id":"suttacentral_an5.146","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.146/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, you shouldn\u2019t associate with a mendicant friend who has five qualities. What five? They start up work projects. They take up disciplinary issues. They conflict with leading mendicants. They like long and aimless wandering. They\u2019re unable to educate, encourage, fire up, and inspire you from time to time with a Dhamma talk. Mendicants, you shouldn\u2019t associate with a mendicant friend who possesses these five qualities. You should associate with a mendicant friend who has five qualities. What five? They don\u2019t start up work projects. They don\u2019t take up disciplinary issues. They don\u2019t conflict with leading mendicants. They don\u2019t like long and aimless wandering. They\u2019re able to educate, encourage, fire up, and inspire you from time to time with a Dhamma talk. You should associate with a mendicant friend who possesses these five qualities.\u201d","title":"A Friend","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":134}