Numbered Discourses 5.272
- Abbreviated Texts on Appointments
A Meal Assigner
“Mendicants, someone with five qualities should not be appointed as meal assigner.
What five?
They make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they don’t know if a meal has been assigned or not.
Someone with these five qualities should not be appointed as meal assigner.
Someone with five qualities should be appointed as meal assigner.
What five?
They don’t make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they know if a meal has been assigned or not.
Someone with these five qualities should be appointed as meal assigner.
Someone with five qualities who has been appointed as meal assigner should not be called upon … should be called upon … should be known as a fool … should be known as astute … they keep themselves broken and damaged … they keep themselves unbroken and undamaged … is placed in hell as if delivered there … is placed in heaven as if delivered there.
What five?
They don’t make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they know if a meal has been assigned or not.
A meal assigner with these five qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”