Numbered Discourses 5.272

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1. Numbered Discourses 5.272
2. 27. Abbreviated Texts on Appointments
3. A Meal Designator
4. “Mendicants, a person with five qualities should not be appointed as meal designator.
5. What five?
6. They make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they don’t know if a meal has been assigned or not.
7. A person with these five qualities should not be appointed as meal designator.
8. A person with five qualities should be appointed as meal designator.
9. What five?
10. They don’t make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they know if a meal has been assigned or not.
11. A person with these five qualities should be appointed as meal designator.
12. A person with five qualities who has been appointed as meal designator 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 cast down to hell … is raised up to heaven.
13. What five?
14. They don’t make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they know if a meal has been assigned or not.
15. A meal designator with these five qualities is raised up to heaven.”