Numbered Discourses 5.231

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1. Numbered Discourses 5.231
2. 24. A Resident Mendicant
3. A Resident Mendicant
4. “Mendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities is not admirable.
5. What five?
6. They’re not accomplished in being well-presented and doing their duties.
7. They’re not very learned and don’t remember what they’ve learned.
8. They’re not self-effacing and don’t enjoy self-effacement.
9. They’re not a good speaker and do not enunciate well.
10. They’re witless, dull, and idiotic.
11. A resident mendicant with these five qualities is not admirable.
12. A resident mendicant with these five qualities is admirable.
13. What five?
14. They’re accomplished in being well-presented and doing their duties.
15. They’re very learned and remember what they’ve learned.
16. They’re self-effacing and enjoy self-effacement.
17. They’re a good speaker who enunciates well.
18. They’re wise, bright, and clever.
19. A resident mendicant with these five qualities is admirable.”