{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.165/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.165","id":"suttacentral_an5.165","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.165/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"There Venerable S\u0101riputta addressed the mendicants: \u2026 \u201cWhoever asks a question of another, does so for one or other of these five reasons. What five? Someone asks a question of another from stupidity and folly. Or they ask from corrupt wishes, being of wishful temperament. Or they ask in order to disparage. Or they ask wanting to understand. Or they ask with the thought, \u2018If they correctly answer the question I ask it\u2019s good. If not, I\u2019ll correctly answer it for them.\u2019 Whoever asks a question of another, does so for one or other of these five reasons. As for myself, I ask with the thought, \u2018If they correctly answer the question I ask it\u2019s good. If not, I\u2019ll correctly answer it for them.\u2019\u201d","title":"Asking Questions","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":124}