{"id":"an5.234","title":"Very Helpful","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.234","title":"Very Helpful","units":[{"id":"an5.234:0","sourceIds":["an5.234:0.1","an5.234:0.2","an5.234:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.234\n24. Āvāsikavagga\nBahūpakārasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.234\n24. A Resident Mendicant\nVery Helpful"}},{"id":"an5.234:1","sourceIds":["an5.234:1.1","an5.234:1.2","an5.234:1.3","an5.234:1.4","an5.234:1.5","an5.234:1.6","an5.234:1.7","an5.234:1.8","an5.234:1.9","an5.234:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato āvāsiko bhikkhu āvāsassa bahūpakāro hoti.\nKatamehi pañcahi?\nSīlavā hoti …pe… samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu;\nbahussuto hoti …pe… diṭṭhiyā suppaṭividdhā;\nkhaṇḍaphullaṁ paṭisaṅkharoti;\nmahā kho pana bhikkhusaṅgho abhikkanto nānāverajjakā bhikkhū gihīnaṁ upasaṅkamitvā āroceti:\n‘mahā kho, āvuso, bhikkhusaṅgho abhikkanto nānāverajjakā bhikkhū, karotha puññāni, samayo puññāni kātun’ti;\ncatunnaṁ jhānānaṁ ābhicetasikānaṁ diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārānaṁ nikāmalābhī hoti akicchalābhī akasiralābhī.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato āvāsiko bhikkhu āvāsassa bahūpakāro hotī”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities is very helpful to the monastery.\nWhat five?\nThey’re ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.\nThey’re very learned, remembering and keeping what they’ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that’s totally full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, reciting them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically.\nThey repair what is decayed and damaged.\nWhen a large mendicant Saṅgha is arriving with mendicants from abroad, they go to the lay people and announce:\n‘A large mendicant Saṅgha is arriving with mendicants from abroad. Make merit! Now is the time to make merit!’\nThey get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty.\nA resident mendicant with these five qualities is very helpful to the monastery.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.234/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}