← Aṅguttara NikāyaAN5.9Numbered Discourses 5.9SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Numbered Discourses 5.91. Powers of a TraineeDisrespect (1st)“Mendicants, a disrespectful and irreverent mendicant with five qualities fails, and doesn’t establish themselves in the true teaching.What five?A disrespectful and irreverent mendicant who is faithless …shameless …imprudent …lazy …witless fails, and doesn’t establish themselves in the true teaching.A disrespectful and irreverent mendicant with these five qualities fails, and doesn’t establish themselves in the true teaching.A respectful and reverent mendicant with five qualities doesn’t fail, and establishes themselves in the true teaching.What five?A respectful and reverent mendicant who is faithful …conscientious …prudent …energetic …wise doesn’t fail, and establishes themselves in the true teaching.A respectful and reverent mendicant with these five qualities doesn’t fail, and establishes themselves in the true teaching.”