{"id":"an5.235","title":"A Sympathetic Mendicant","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.235","title":"A Sympathetic Mendicant","units":[{"id":"an5.235:0","sourceIds":["an5.235:0.1","an5.235:0.2","an5.235:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.235\n24. Āvāsikavagga\nAnukampasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.235\n24. A Resident Mendicant\nA Sympathetic Mendicant"}},{"id":"an5.235:1","sourceIds":["an5.235:1.1","an5.235:1.2","an5.235:1.3","an5.235:1.4","an5.235:1.5","an5.235:1.6","an5.235:1.7","an5.235:1.8","an5.235:1.9","an5.235:1.10","an5.235:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato āvāsiko bhikkhu gihīnaṁ anukampati.\nKatamehi pañcahi?\nAdhisīle samādapeti;\ndhammadassane niveseti;\ngilānake upasaṅkamitvā satiṁ uppādeti:\n‘arahaggataṁ āyasmanto satiṁ upaṭṭhāpethā’ti;\nmahā kho pana bhikkhusaṅgho abhikkanto nānāverajjakā bhikkhū gihīnaṁ upasaṅkamitvā āroceti:\n‘mahā kho, āvuso, bhikkhusaṅgho abhikkanto nānāverajjakā bhikkhū, karotha puññāni, samayo puññāni kātun’ti;\nyaṁ kho panassa bhojanaṁ denti lūkhaṁ vā paṇītaṁ vā taṁ attanā paribhuñjati, saddhādeyyaṁ na vinipāteti.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato āvāsiko bhikkhu gihīnaṁ anukampatī”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities shows sympathy to the lay people.\nWhat five?\nThey encourage them in higher ethics.\nThey equip them to see the truth of the teachings.\nWhen they are sick, they go to them and prompt their mindfulness, saying:\n‘Establish your mindfulness, good fellows, in what is worthy.’\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!’\nAnd they eat whatever food they give them, coarse or fine, not wasting a gift given in faith.\nA resident mendicant with these five qualities shows sympathy to the lay people.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.235/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."}