{"id":"an7.31","title":"Downfalls for a Lay Follower","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an7.31","title":"Downfalls for a Lay Follower","units":[{"id":"an7.31:0","sourceIds":["an7.31:0.1","an7.31:0.2","an7.31:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.31\n3. Vajjisattakavagga\nParābhavasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 7.31\n3. The Vajji Seven\nDownfalls for a Lay Follower"}},{"id":"an7.31:1","sourceIds":["an7.31:1.1","an7.31:1.2","an7.31:1.3","an7.31:1.4","an7.31:1.5","an7.31:1.6","an7.31:1.7","an7.31:1.8","an7.31:1.9","an7.31:1.10","an7.31:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sattime, bhikkhave, upāsakassa parābhavā …pe…\nsattime, bhikkhave, upāsakassa sambhavā.\nKatame satta?\nBhikkhudassanaṁ na hāpeti,\nsaddhammassavanaṁ nappamajjati,\nadhisīle sikkhati,\npasādabahulo hoti,\nbhikkhūsu theresu ceva navesu ca majjhimesu ca anupārambhacitto dhammaṁ suṇāti na randhagavesī,\nna ito bahiddhā dakkhiṇeyyaṁ gavesati,\nidha ca pubbakāraṁ karoti.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, satta upāsakassa sambhavāti.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these seven downfalls for a lay follower …\nThere are these seven successes for a lay follower.\nWhat seven?\nThey don’t miss out on seeing the mendicants.\nThey don’t neglect listening to the true teaching.\nThey train in higher ethical conduct.\nThey’re very confident about mendicants, whether senior, junior, or middle.\nThey don’t listen to the teaching with a hostile, fault-finding mind.\nThey don’t seek outside of the Buddhist community for those worthy of religious donations.\nAnd they serve the Buddhist community first.\nThese are the seven successes for a lay follower."}},{"id":"an7.31:2","sourceIds":["an7.31:2.1","an7.31:2.2","an7.31:2.3","an7.31:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dassanaṁ bhāvitattānaṁ,\nYo hāpeti upāsako;\nSavanañca ariyadhammānaṁ,\nAdhisīle na sikkhati.","en":"A lay follower misses out on seeing\nthose who are evolved\nand listening to the teachings of the Noble One.\nThey don’t train in higher ethical conduct,"}},{"id":"an7.31:3","sourceIds":["an7.31:3.1","an7.31:3.2","an7.31:3.3","an7.31:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Appasādo ca bhikkhūsu,\nbhiyyo bhiyyo pavaḍḍhati;\nUpārambhakacitto ca,\nsaddhammaṁ sotumicchati.","en":"and their suspicion about mendicants\njust grows and grows.\nThey want to listen to the true teaching\nwith a fault-finding mind."}},{"id":"an7.31:4","sourceIds":["an7.31:4.1","an7.31:4.2","an7.31:4.3","an7.31:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ito ca bahiddhā aññaṁ,\ndakkhiṇeyyaṁ gavesati;\nTattheva ca pubbakāraṁ,\nyo karoti upāsako.","en":"They seek outside the Buddhist community\nfor someone else worthy of religious donations,\nand that lay follower\nserves them first."}},{"id":"an7.31:5","sourceIds":["an7.31:5.1","an7.31:5.2","an7.31:5.3","an7.31:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ete kho parihāniye,\nsatta dhamme sudesite;\nUpāsako sevamāno,\nsaddhammā parihāyati.","en":"These seven principles leading to decline\nhave been well taught.\nA lay follower who practices these\nfalls away from the true teaching."}},{"id":"an7.31:6","sourceIds":["an7.31:6.1","an7.31:6.2","an7.31:6.3","an7.31:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dassanaṁ bhāvitattānaṁ,\nYo na hāpeti upāsako;\nSavanañca ariyadhammānaṁ,\nAdhisīle ca sikkhati.","en":"A lay follower doesn’t miss out on seeing\nthose who are evolved\nand listening to the teachings of the Noble One.\nThey train in higher ethical conduct,"}},{"id":"an7.31:7","sourceIds":["an7.31:7.1","an7.31:7.2","an7.31:7.3","an7.31:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pasādo cassa bhikkhūsu,\nbhiyyo bhiyyo pavaḍḍhati;\nAnupārambhacitto ca,\nsaddhammaṁ sotumicchati.","en":"and their confidence in mendicants\njust grows and grows.\nThey want to listen to the true teaching\nwithout a fault-finding mind."}},{"id":"an7.31:8","sourceIds":["an7.31:8.1","an7.31:8.2","an7.31:8.3","an7.31:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na ito bahiddhā aññaṁ,\ndakkhiṇeyyaṁ gavesati;\nIdheva ca pubbakāraṁ,\nyo karoti upāsako.","en":"They don’t seek outside the Buddhist community\nfor someone else worthy of religious donations,\nand that lay follower\nserves the Buddhist community first."}},{"id":"an7.31:9","sourceIds":["an7.31:9.1","an7.31:9.2","an7.31:9.3","an7.31:9.4","an7.31:9.5","an7.31:9.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ete kho aparihāniye,\nSatta dhamme sudesite;\nUpāsako sevamāno,\nSaddhammā na parihāyatī”ti.\nEkādasamaṁ.\nVajjisattakavaggo tatiyo.","en":"These seven principles that prevent decline\nhave been well taught.\nA lay follower who practices them\ndoesn’t fall away from the true teaching.”"}},{"id":"an7.31:10","sourceIds":["an7.31:10.0","an7.31:10.1","an7.31:10.2","an7.31:10.3","an7.31:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nSāranda vassakāro ca,\ntisattakāni bhikkhukā;\nBodhisaññā dve ca hāni,\nvipatti ca parābhavoti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an7.31/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."}