Numbered Discourses 5.253

1. Ordination

Who Should Have a Novice as Attendant

“Mendicants, a novice should attend on a mendicant with five qualities.

What five?

It’s a mendicant who has the entire spectrum of an adept’s ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom.

A novice should attend on a mendicant with these five qualities.”