{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.67/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.67","id":"suttacentral_an6.67","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.67/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, it is quite impossible that a mendicant with bad friends, companions, and associates, while frequenting, accompanying, and attending, and following their example, will fulfill the practice dealing with the supplementary regulations. Without fulfilling the practice dealing with supplementary regulations, it\u2019s impossible to fulfill the practice of a trainee. Without fulfilling the practice of a trainee, it\u2019s impossible to fulfill ethics. Without fulfilling ethics, it\u2019s impossible to give up sensual desire, or desire to be reborn in the realm of luminous form or in the formless realm. It\u2019s quite possible that a mendicant with good friends, companions, and associates, while frequenting, accompanying, and attending, and following their example, will fulfill the practice dealing with the supplementary regulations. Having fulfilled the practice dealing with supplementary regulations, it\u2019s possible to fulfill the practice of a trainee. Having fulfilled the practice of a trainee, it\u2019s possible to fulfill ethics. Having fulfilled ethics, it\u2019s possible to give up sensual desire, and desire to be reborn in the realm of luminous form and in the formless realm.\u201d","title":"Friends","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":172}