{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.59/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.59","id":"suttacentral_an6.59","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.59/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying at \u00d1\u0101tika in the brick house. Then the householder D\u0101rukammika went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him, \u201cHouseholder, I wonder whether your family gives gifts?\u201d \u201cIt does, sir. Gifts are given to those mendicants who are perfected or on the path to perfection; they live in the wilderness, eat only almsfood, and wear rag robes.\u201d \u201cHouseholder, as a layman enjoying sensual pleasures, living at home with your children, using sandalwood imported from K\u0101si, wearing garlands, fragrance, and makeup, and accepting gold and currency, it\u2019s hard for you to know who is perfected or on the path to perfection. If a mendicant living in the wilderness is haughty, insolent, fickle, scurrilous, loose-tongued, unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying mind and undisciplined faculties, then in this respect they\u2019re reprehensible. If a mendicant living in the wilderness is not haughty, insolent, fickle, scurrilous, or loose-tongued, but has established mindfulness, situational awareness and immersion, with unified mind and restrained faculties, then in this respect they\u2019re praiseworthy. If a mendicant who lives within a village is restless \u2026 then in this respect they\u2019re reprehensible. If a mendicant who lives within a village is not restless \u2026 then in this respect they\u2019re praiseworthy. If a mendicant who eats only almsfood is restless \u2026 then in this respect they\u2019re reprehensible. If a mendicant who eats only almsfood is not restless \u2026 then in this respect they\u2019re praiseworthy. If a mendicant who accepts invitations is restless \u2026 then in this respect they\u2019re reprehensible. If a mendicant who accepts invitations is not restless \u2026 then in this respect they\u2019re praiseworthy. If a mendicant who wears rag robes is restless \u2026 then in this respect they\u2019re reprehensible. If a mendicant who wears rag robes is not restless \u2026 then in this respect they\u2019re praiseworthy. If a mendicant who wears robes offered by householders is haughty, insolent, fickle, scurrilous, loose-tongued, unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying mind and undisciplined faculties, then in this respect they\u2019re reprehensible. If a mendicant who wears robes offered by householders is not haughty, insolent, fickle, scurrilous, or loose-tongued, but has established mindfulness, situational awareness and immersion, with unified mind and restrained faculties, then in this respect they\u2019re praiseworthy. Go ahead, householder, give gifts to the Sa\u1e45gha. Your mind will become bright and clear, and when your body breaks up, after death, you\u2019ll be reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.\u201d \u201cSir, from this day forth I will give gifts to the Sa\u1e45gha.\u201d","title":"With D\u0101rukammika","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":432}