{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.154/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.154","id":"suttacentral_an5.154","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.154/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, these five things lead to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching. What five? It\u2019s when mendicants don\u2019t carefully listen to the teachings, memorize them, and remember them. They don\u2019t carefully examine the meaning of teachings that they remember. And they don\u2019t carefully practice in line with the meaning and the teaching they\u2019ve understood. These five things lead to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching. These five things lead to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching. What five? It\u2019s when mendicants carefully listen to the teachings, memorize them, and remember them. They carefully examine the meaning of teachings that they remember. And they carefully practice in line with the meaning and the teaching they\u2019ve understood. These five things lead to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching.\u201d","title":"The Decline of the True Teaching (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":136}