{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.250/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.250","id":"suttacentral_an5.250","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.250/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these five drawbacks of placing faith in an individual. What five? The individual to whom an individual is devoted falls into an offense such that the Sa\u1e45gha suspends them. It occurs to them: \u2018This individual dear and beloved to me has been suspended by the Sa\u1e45gha.\u2019 They lose much of their faith in mendicants. So they don\u2019t frequent other mendicants, they don\u2019t hear the true teaching, and they fall away from the true teaching. This is the first drawback in placing faith in an individual. Furthermore, the individual to whom an individual is devoted falls into an offense such that the Sa\u1e45gha makes them sit at the end of the line. \u2026 This is the second drawback in placing faith in an individual. Furthermore, the individual to whom an individual is devoted leaves for another region \u2026 disrobes \u2026 passes away. It occurs to them: \u2018This individual dear and beloved to me has passed away.\u2019 So they don\u2019t frequent other mendicants, they don\u2019t hear the true teaching, and they fall away from the true teaching. This is the fifth drawback in placing faith in an individual. These are the five drawbacks of placing faith in an individual.\u201d","title":"Faith in Individuals","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":200}