{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.223/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.223","id":"suttacentral_an5.223","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.223/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these five drawbacks of overstaying. What five? You have a lot of stuff and store it up. You have a lot of medicine and store it up. You have a lot of duties and responsibilities, and become capable in whatever needs to be done. You mix closely with laypeople and renunciates, socializing inappropriately like a layperson. And when you leave that monastery, you miss it. These are the five drawbacks of overstaying. There are these five benefits of staying for a reasonable length of time. What five? You don\u2019t have a lot of stuff and store it up. You don\u2019t have a lot of medicine and store it up. You don\u2019t have a lot of duties and responsibilities, or become capable in whatever needs to be done. You don\u2019t mix closely with laypeople and renunciates, socializing inappropriately like a layperson. And when you leave that monastery, you don\u2019t miss it. These are the five benefits of staying for a reasonable length of time.\u201d","title":"Overstaying","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":166}