{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti78/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti78","id":"suttacentral_iti78","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti78/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, sentient beings join together and converge because of an element: Those who have inferior convictions join together and converge with those who have inferior convictions. Those who have good convictions join together and converge with those who have good convictions. In the past \u2026 In the future \u2026 At present, too, sentient beings join together and converge because of an element. Those who have inferior convictions join together and converge with those who have inferior convictions. Those who have good convictions join together and converge with those who have good convictions.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cSocializing creates a snarl; they\u2019re cut off by being aloof. If you\u2019re lost in the middle of a great sea, and you clamber up on a little log, you\u2019ll sink. So too, a person who lives well sinks by relying on a lazy person. Hence you should avoid such a lazy person who lacks energy. Dwell with the noble ones who are secluded and determined constantly energetic, the astute who practice absorption.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Converging Elements","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":205}