{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn14.16/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn14.16","id":"suttacentral_sn14.16","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn14.16/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \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. 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. It\u2019s like how dung joins together with dung, urine with urine, spit with spit, pus with pus, and blood with blood. In the same way, 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. 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. Sentient beings join together and converge because of an element. 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 good convictions join together and converge with those who have good convictions. It\u2019s like how milk joins together with milk, oil with oil, ghee with ghee, honey with honey, and molasses with molasses. In the same way, sentient beings join together and converge because of an element. 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 good convictions join together and converge with those who have good convictions.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \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 and always energetic; the astute who practice absorption.\u201d","title":"With Verses","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":386}