{"id":"an8.87","title":"Turning the Bowl Upside Down","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.87","title":"Turning the Bowl Upside Down","units":[{"id":"an8.87:0","sourceIds":["an8.87:0.1","an8.87:0.2","an8.87:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.87\n9. Sativagga\nPattanikujjanasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.87\n9. Mindfulness\nTurning the Bowl Upside Down"}},{"id":"an8.87:1","sourceIds":["an8.87:1.1","an8.87:1.2","an8.87:1.3","an8.87:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aṭṭhahi, bhikkhave, aṅgehi samannāgatassa upāsakassa ākaṅkhamāno saṅgho pattaṁ nikkujjeyya.\nKatamehi aṭṭhahi?\nBhikkhūnaṁ alābhāya parisakkati, bhikkhūnaṁ anatthāya parisakkati, bhikkhūnaṁ avāsāya parisakkati, bhikkhū akkosati paribhāsati, bhikkhū bhikkhūhi bhedeti, buddhassa avaṇṇaṁ bhāsati, dhammassa avaṇṇaṁ bhāsati, saṅghassa avaṇṇaṁ bhāsati.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, aṭṭhahaṅgehi samannāgatassa upāsakassa ākaṅkhamāno saṅgho pattaṁ nikkujjeyya.","en":"“Mendicants, the Saṅgha may, if it wishes, turn the bowl upside down for a lay follower on eight grounds.\nWhat eight?\nThey try to prevent the mendicants from getting material things. They try to harm mendicants. They try to drive mendicants from a monastery. They insult and abuse mendicants. They divide mendicants against each other. They criticize the Buddha, the teaching, and the Saṅgha.\nThe Saṅgha may, if it wishes, turn the bowl upside down for a lay follower on these eight grounds."}},{"id":"an8.87:2","sourceIds":["an8.87:2.1","an8.87:2.2","an8.87:2.3","an8.87:2.4","an8.87:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṭṭhahi, bhikkhave, aṅgehi samannāgatassa upāsakassa ākaṅkhamāno saṅgho pattaṁ ukkujjeyya.\nKatamehi aṭṭhahi?\nNa bhikkhūnaṁ alābhāya parisakkati, na bhikkhūnaṁ anatthāya parisakkati, na bhikkhūnaṁ avāsāya parisakkati, na bhikkhū akkosati paribhāsati, na bhikkhū bhikkhūhi bhedeti, buddhassa vaṇṇaṁ bhāsati, dhammassa vaṇṇaṁ bhāsati, saṅghassa vaṇṇaṁ bhāsati.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, aṭṭhahaṅgehi samannāgatassa upāsakassa ākaṅkhamāno saṅgho pattaṁ ukkujjeyyā”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"The Saṅgha may, if it wishes, turn the bowl upright for a lay follower on eight grounds.\nWhat eight?\nThey don’t try to prevent the mendicants from getting material things. They don’t try to harm mendicants. They don’t try to drive mendicants from a monastery. They don’t insult and abuse mendicants. They don’t divide mendicants against each other. They don’t criticize the Buddha, the teaching, and the Saṅgha.\nThe Saṅgha may, if it wishes, turn the bowl upright for a lay follower on these eight grounds.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.87/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."}