{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.235/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.235","id":"suttacentral_an5.235","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.235/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities shows sympathy to the lay people. What five? They encourage them in higher ethics. They equip them to see the truth of the teachings. When they are sick, they go to them and prompt their mindfulness, saying: \u2018Establish your mindfulness, good fellows, in what is worthy.\u2019 When a large mendicant Sa\u1e45gha is arriving with mendicants from abroad, they go to the lay people and announce: \u2018A large mendicant Sa\u1e45gha is arriving with mendicants from abroad. Make merit! Now is the time to make merit!\u2019 And they eat whatever food they give them, coarse or fine, not wasting a gift given in faith. A resident mendicant with these five qualities shows sympathy to the lay people.\u201d","title":"A Sympathetic Mendicant","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":122}