Numbered Discourses 5.84
- Senior Mendicants
Faithless
“Mendicants, a senior mendicant with five qualities is unlikable and disagreeable to their spiritual companions, not respected or admired.
What five?
They’re faithless, shameless, imprudent, lazy, and witless.
A senior mendicant with these five qualities is unlikable and disagreeable to their spiritual companions, not respected or admired.
A senior mendicant with five qualities is dear and beloved to their spiritual companions, respected and admired.
What five?
They’re faithful, conscientious, prudent, energetic, and wise.
A senior mendicant with these five qualities is dear and beloved to their spiritual companions, respected and admired.”