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“At a time when bandits are strong, kings are weak. Then the king is not at ease when going out or coming back or when touring the provinces. The brahmins and householders, likewise, are not at ease when going out or coming back, or when inspecting their business activities.
In the same way, at a time when bad mendicants are strong, good-hearted mendicants are wea...
This was said by the Lord, said by the Arahant, so I heard:
“Bhikkhus, there are four things that arouse craving whereby the craving that has arisen in a bhikkhu arises. What are the four? Because of robes, because of almsfood, because of a dwelling place, because of gaining this or losing that the craving that has arisen in a bhikkhu arises. These, bhikkhus, are t...
“Mendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities shows compassion to the lay people. What five?
They encourage them in higher ethics. They equip them to see the truth of the teachings. When they are sick, they go to them and prompt their mindfulness, saying: ‘Establish your mindfulness, good sirs, in what is worthy.’ When a large mendicant Saṅgha is...“Mendicants, a mendicant with five qualities is an exquisite ascetic of ascetics.
What five?
It’s when a mendicant usually uses only what they’ve been invited to accept—robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick—rarely using them without invitation.
When living with other spiritual practitioners, they usually treat them a...
[Note: Ven. Upāli was the foremost monk with knowledge of the Vinaya, the monastic code. The Pātimokkha is a subset of all the monastic rules that is recited by groups of monastics on the full and new mood days.]
Then the Venerable Upāli approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him:
“Bhante, on how many grounds has...