{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn16.8/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn16.8","id":"suttacentral_sn16.8","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn16.8/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"Near R\u0101jagaha, in the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. Then Venerable Mah\u0101kassapa went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201cKassapa, advise the mendicants! Give them a Dhamma talk! Either you or I should advise the mendicants and give them a Dhamma talk.\u201d \u201cSir, the mendicants these days are hard to admonish, having qualities that make them hard to admonish. They\u2019re impatient, and don\u2019t take instruction respectfully.\u201d \u201cKassapa, that\u2019s because formerly the senior mendicants lived in the wilderness, ate only almsfood, wore rag robes, and owned just three robes; and they praised these things. They were of few wishes, content, secluded, aloof, and energetic; and they praised these things. The senior mendicants invite such a mendicant to a seat, saying: \u2018Welcome, mendicant! What is this mendicant\u2019s name? This mendicant is good-natured; he\u2019s really eager to train. Please, mendicant, here, take a seat.\u2019 Then the junior mendicants think: \u2018It seems that when a mendicant lives in the wilderness \u2026 and is energetic, and praises these things, senior mendicants invite them to a seat \u2026\u2019 They practice accordingly. That is for their lasting welfare and happiness. But these days, Kassapa, the senior mendicants don\u2019t live in the wilderness \u2026 and aren\u2019t energetic; and they don\u2019t praise these things. When a mendicant is well-known and famous, a recipient of robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick, senior mendicants invite them to a seat: \u2018Welcome, mendicant! What is this mendicant\u2019s name? This mendicant is good-natured; he\u2019s fond of his fellow monks. Please, mendicant, here, take a seat.\u2019 Then the junior mendicants think: \u2018It seems that when a mendicant is well-known and famous, a recipient of robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick, senior mendicants invite them to a seat \u2026\u2019 They practice accordingly. That is for their lasting harm and suffering. And if it could ever be rightly said that spiritual practitioners have been imperiled by the peril of a spiritual practitioner, and vanquished by the vanquishing of a spiritual practitioner, it is these days that this could be rightly said.\u201d","title":"Advice (3rd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":350}