{"id":"an5.250","title":"Faith in Individuals","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.250","title":"Faith in Individuals","units":[{"id":"an5.250:0","sourceIds":["an5.250:0.1","an5.250:0.2","an5.250:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.250\n25. Duccaritavagga\nPuggalappasādasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.250\n25. Bad Conduct\nFaith in Individuals"}},{"id":"an5.250:1","sourceIds":["an5.250:1.1","an5.250:1.2","an5.250:1.3","an5.250:1.4","an5.250:1.5","an5.250:1.6","an5.250:1.7","an5.250:1.8","an5.250:1.9","an5.250:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcime, bhikkhave, ādīnavā puggalappasāde.\nKatame pañca?\nYasmiṁ, bhikkhave, puggale puggalo abhippasanno hoti, so tathārūpaṁ āpattiṁ āpanno hoti yathārūpāya āpattiyā saṅgho ukkhipati.\nTassa evaṁ hoti:\n‘yo kho myāyaṁ puggalo piyo manāpo so saṅghena ukkhitto’ti.\nBhikkhūsu appasādabahulo hoti.\nBhikkhūsu appasādabahulo samāno aññe bhikkhū na bhajati.\nAññe bhikkhū abhajanto saddhammaṁ na suṇāti.\nSaddhammaṁ asuṇanto saddhammā parihāyati.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, paṭhamo ādīnavo puggalappasāde.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these five drawbacks of placing faith in an individual.\nWhat five?\nThe individual to whom an individual is devoted falls into an offense such that the Saṅgha suspends them.\nIt occurs to them:\n‘This individual dear and beloved to me has been suspended by the Saṅgha.’\nThey lose much of their faith in mendicants.\nSo they don’t frequent other mendicants,\nthey don’t hear the true teaching,\nand they fall away from the true teaching.\nThis is the first drawback in placing faith in an individual."}},{"id":"an5.250:2","sourceIds":["an5.250:2.1","an5.250:2.2","an5.250:2.3","an5.250:2.4","an5.250:2.5","an5.250:2.6","an5.250:2.7","an5.250:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, yasmiṁ puggale puggalo abhippasanno hoti, so tathārūpaṁ āpattiṁ āpanno hoti yathārūpāya āpattiyā saṅgho ante nisīdāpeti.\nTassa evaṁ hoti:\n‘yo kho myāyaṁ puggalo piyo manāpo so saṅghena ante nisīdāpito’ti.\nBhikkhūsu appasādabahulo hoti.\nBhikkhūsu appasādabahulo samāno aññe bhikkhū na bhajati.\nAññe bhikkhū abhajanto saddhammaṁ na suṇāti.\nSaddhammaṁ asuṇanto saddhammā parihāyati.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, dutiyo ādīnavo puggalappasāde.","en":"Furthermore, the individual to whom an individual is devoted falls into an offense such that the Saṅgha makes them sit at the end of the line. …\nThis is the second drawback in placing faith in an individual."}},{"id":"an5.250:3","sourceIds":["an5.250:3.1","an5.250:3.2","an5.250:3.3","an5.250:3.4","an5.250:3.5","an5.250:3.6","an5.250:3.7","an5.250:3.8","an5.250:3.9","an5.250:3.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, yasmiṁ puggale puggalo abhippasanno hoti, so disāpakkanto hoti …pe… so vibbhanto hoti …pe… so kālaṅkato hoti.\nTassa evaṁ hoti:\n‘yo kho myāyaṁ puggalo piyo manāpo so kālaṅkato’ti.\nAññe bhikkhū na bhajati.\nAññe bhikkhū abhajanto saddhammaṁ na suṇāti.\nSaddhammaṁ asuṇanto saddhammā parihāyati.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, pañcamo ādīnavo puggalappasāde.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, pañca ādīnavā puggalappasāde”ti.\nDasamaṁ.\nDuccaritavaggo pañcamo.","en":"Furthermore, the individual to whom an individual is devoted leaves for another region … disrobes … passes away.\nIt occurs to them:\n‘This individual dear and beloved to me has passed away.’\nSo they don’t frequent other mendicants,\nthey don’t hear the true teaching,\nand they fall away from the true teaching.\nThis is the fifth drawback in placing faith in an individual.\nThese are the five drawbacks of placing faith in an individual.”"}},{"id":"an5.250:4","sourceIds":["an5.250:4.0","an5.250:4.1","an5.250:4.2","an5.250:4.3","an5.250:4.4","an5.250:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nDuccaritaṁ kāyaduccaritaṁ,\nVacīduccaritaṁ manoduccaritaṁ;\nCatūhi pare dve sivathikā,\nPuggalappasādena cāti.\nPañcamo paṇṇāsako samatto."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.250/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."}