{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.84/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.84","id":"suttacentral_an6.84","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.84/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a mendicant with six qualities can expect decline, not growth, in skillful qualities, whether by day or by night. What six? It\u2019s when a mendicant has many desires\u2014they\u2019re frustrated and not content with any kind of robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. And they\u2019re faithless, unethical, unmindful, and witless. A mendicant with these six qualities can expect decline, not growth, in skillful qualities, whether by day or by night. A mendicant with six qualities can expect growth, not decline, in skillful qualities, whether by day or by night. What six? It\u2019s when a mendicant doesn\u2019t have many desires\u2014they\u2019re not frustrated but content with any kind of robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. And they\u2019re faithful, ethical, mindful, and wise. A mendicant with these six qualities can expect growth, not decline, in skillful qualities, whether by day or by night.\u201d","title":"Day and Night","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":148}