{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.233/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.233","id":"suttacentral_an5.233","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.233/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities graces the monastery. What five? They\u2019re ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they\u2019ve undertaken. They\u2019re very learned, remembering and keeping what they\u2019ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that\u2019s totally full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, reciting them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically. They\u2019re a good speaker who enunciates well, with a polished, clear, and articulate voice that expresses the meaning. They\u2019re able to educate, encourage, fire up, and inspire those who approach them with a Dhamma talk. They get the four absorptions\u2014blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind\u2014when they want, without trouble or difficulty. A resident mendicant with these five qualities graces the monastery.\u201d","title":"Grace","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":162}