{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.79/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.79","id":"suttacentral_an6.79","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.79/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a mendicant who has six qualities is unable to acquire more skillful qualities or to increase the skillful qualities they\u2019ve already acquired. What six? It\u2019s when a mendicant is not skilled in progress, skilled in regress, or skilled in means. They don\u2019t generate enthusiasm to achieve skillful qualities not yet achieved. They don\u2019t protect skillful qualities they have achieved. And they don\u2019t try to persist in the task. A mendicant who possesses these six qualities is unable to acquire more skillful qualities or to increase the skillful qualities they\u2019ve already acquired. A mendicant who has six qualities is able to acquire more skillful qualities or to increase the skillful qualities they\u2019ve already acquired. What six? It\u2019s when a mendicant is skilled in progress, skilled in regress, and skilled in means. They generate enthusiasm to achieve skillful qualities not yet achieved. They protect skillful qualities they have achieved. And they try to persist in the task. A mendicant who possesses these six qualities is able to acquire more skillful qualities or to increase the skillful qualities they\u2019ve already acquired.\u201d","title":"Achievement","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":179}