← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN14.14Connected Discourses 14.14SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 14.14Chapter TwoBad ConvictionsAt Sāvatthī.“Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element.Those who have bad convictions come together and converge with those who have bad convictions.Those who have good convictions come together and converge with those who have good convictions.In the past, too, sentient beings came together and converged because of an element. …In the future, too, sentient beings will come together and converge because of an element. …At present, too, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element.Those who have bad convictions come together and converge with those who have bad convictions.Those who have good convictions come together and converge with those who have good convictions.”