an5.234:1.1 “Mendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities is very helpful to the monastery.
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an5.234:1.2 What five?
an5.234:1.3 They’re ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.
an5.234:1.4 They’re very learned, remembering and keeping what they’ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that’s totally full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, reciting them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically.
an5.234:1.5 They repair what is decayed and damaged.
an5.234:1.6 When a large mendicant Saṅgha is arriving with mendicants from abroad, they go to the lay people and announce:
an5.234:1.7 ‘A large mendicant Saṅgha is arriving with mendicants from abroad. Make merit! Now is the time to make merit!’
an5.234:1.8 They get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty.
an5.234:1.9 A resident mendicant with these five qualities is very helpful to the monastery.”