Numbered Discourses 5.127
- Sick
Living Apart
“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is not fit to live apart from a Saṅgha community.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is not content with any kind of robe, almsfood, lodging, and medicines and supplies for the sick. And they have a lot of sensual thoughts.
A mendicant with these five qualities is not fit to live apart from a Saṅgha community.
A mendicant with five qualities is fit to live apart from a Saṅgha community.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant is content with any kind of robe, almsfood, lodging, and medicines and supplies for the sick. And they think a lot about renunciation.
A mendicant with these five qualities is fit to live apart from a Saṅgha community.”