Numbered Discourses 5.84

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1. Numbered Discourses 5.84
2. 9. Senior Mendicants
3. Faithless
4. “Mendicants, a senior mendicant with five qualities is unlikable and disagreeable to their spiritual companions, not respected or admired.
5. What five?
6. They’re faithless, shameless, imprudent, lazy, and witless.
7. A senior mendicant with these five qualities is unlikable and disagreeable to their spiritual companions, not respected or admired.
8. A senior mendicant with five qualities is dear and beloved to their spiritual companions, respected and admired.
9. What five?
10. They’re faithful, conscientious, prudent, energetic, and wise.
11. A senior mendicant with these five qualities is dear and beloved to their spiritual companions, respected and admired.”