{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.88/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.88","id":"suttacentral_an5.88","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.88/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a senior mendicant who has five qualities is acting for the detriment and unhappiness of the people, against the people, for the harm, detriment, and suffering of of gods and humans. What five? They are long standing and have long gone forth. They\u2019re well-known, famous, with a large following that includes both laypeople and renunciates. They receive robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. 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 entirely full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, rehearsing them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically. But they have wrong view and distorted perspective. They draw many people away from the true teaching and establish them in false teachings. People follow their example, thinking that the senior mendicant is long standing and has long gone forth. Or that they\u2019re well-known, famous, with a large following that includes both laypeople and renunciates. Or that they receive robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. Or that they\u2019re very learned, remembering and keeping what they\u2019ve learned. A senior mendicant who possesses these five qualities is acting for the detriment and unhappiness of the people, against the people, for the harm, detriment, and suffering of gods and humans. A senior mendicant who has five qualities is acting for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans. What five? They are long standing and have long gone forth. They\u2019re well-known, famous, with a large following, including both laypeople and renunciates. They receive robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. 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 entirely full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, rehearsing them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically. And they have right view and an undistorted perspective. They draw many people away from false teachings and establish them in the true teaching. People follow their example, thinking that the senior mendicant is long standing and has long gone forth. Or that they\u2019re well-known, famous, with a large following that includes both laypeople and renunciates. Or that they receive robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. Or that they\u2019re very learned, remembering and keeping what they\u2019ve learned. A senior mendicant who possesses these five qualities is acting for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans.\u201d","title":"Senior Mendicants","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":466}