an2.62:2.1 “What is it like living with bad people? How do bad people live together?
an2.62:2.2 It’s when a senior mendicant thinks:
an2.62:2.3 ‘No mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior, should admonish me;
an2.62:2.4 and I shouldn’t admonish any mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior.
an2.62:2.5 If a mendicant—whether senior, middle, or junior—were to admonish me, they wouldn’t be sympathetic, and I’d bother them by saying “No!” And anyway I wouldn’t deal with it even if I saw what I did wrong.’
an2.62:2.7 And a middle or a junior mendicant also thinks:
an2.62:2.8 ‘No mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior, should admonish me;
an2.62:2.9 and I shouldn’t admonish any mendicant, whether senior, middle, or junior.
an2.62:2.10 If a mendicant—whether senior, middle, or junior—were to admonish me, they wouldn’t be sympathetic, and I’d bother them by saying “No!” And anyway I wouldn’t deal with it even if I saw what I did wrong.’
an2.62:2.12 That’s what it’s like living with bad people; that’s how bad people live together.
an2.63:2.1 In any disciplinary issue where on both sides the endless talk, contempt for each other’s views, resentment, bitterness, and exasperation is well settled, you can expect that this disciplinary issue
an2.63:2.2 won’t lead to lasting acrimony and enmity, and the mendicants will live comfortably.”
