“Mendicants, a senior mendicant with five qualities is unlikable and disagreeable to their spiritual companions, not respected or admired. What five? They use deceit, flattery, hinting, and belittling, and they use material things to chase after other material things. 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 don’t use deceit, flattery, hinting, or belittling, and they don’t use material things to chase after other material things. A senior mendicant with these five qualities is dear and beloved to their spiritual companions, respected and admired.”

The Numbered Discourses

|_【5】 The Book of the Fives

|__B. The Second Fifty

|___IV. The Chapter on Senior Mendicants

AN5.83 Deceiver

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