A Sympathetic Mendicant

“Mendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities shows sympathy to the lay people.What five?They encourage them in higher ethics.They equip them to see the truth of the teachings.When they are sick, they go to them and prompt their mindfulnesssatiAtención plena, memoria, poderes de referencia y retención. En algunos contextos, la palabra sati cuando se usa sola cubre también la alerta (sampajañña).Ver en el glosario, saying:‘Establish your mindfulness, good fellows, in what is worthy.’When a large mendicant SaṅghaSaṅghaEste término denota tanto: la «comunidad monástica» (comunidades de monjes y monjas budistas) en quienes los seguidores laicos toman refugio; como aquellos seguidores del Buddha, laicos u ordenados, que han alcanzado al menos la entrada en la corriente (ver sotāpanna), el primero de los senderos transcendentes (ver magga) que culmina en nibbāna. Recientemente en EE.UU., el término «sangha» se ha transformado para significar el sentido más amplio de «comunidad de seguidores en el sendero budista», aunque este uso no tiene base en el canon pali. El término parisā se usa en este sentido más amplio en los textos tempranos.Ver en el glosario is arriving with mendicants from abroad, they go to the lay people and announce:‘A large mendicant Saṅgha is arriving with mendicants from abroad. Make merit! Now is the time to make merit!’And they eat whatever food they give them, coarse or fine, not wasting a gift given in faith.A resident mendicant with these five qualities shows sympathy to the lay people.”

“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato āvāsiko bhikkhu gihīnaṁ anukampati. *gihīnaṁ → gihiṁ (sya-all); gihī (katthaci)Katamehi pañcahi? Adhisīle samādapeti; *Adhisīle → adhisīlesu (sya-all)dhammadassane niveseti; gilānake upasaṅkamitvā satiṁ uppādeti: ‘arahaggataṁ āyasmanto satiṁ upaṭṭhāpethā’ti; mahā kho pana bhikkhusaṅgho abhikkanto nānāverajjakā bhikkhū gihīnaṁ upasaṅkamitvā āroceti: ‘mahā kho, āvuso, bhikkhusaṅgho abhikkanto nānāverajjakā bhikkhū, karotha puññāni, samayo puññāni kātun’ti; yaṁ kho panassa bhojanaṁ denti lūkhaṁ vā paṇītaṁ vā taṁ attanā paribhuñjati, saddhādeyyaṁ na vinipāteti. Imehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato āvāsiko bhikkhu gihīnaṁ anukampatī”ti.

“Mendicants, a resident mendicant with five qualities shows sympathy to the lay people.“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato āvāsiko bhikkhu gihīnaṁ anukampati. *gihīnaṁ → gihiṁ (sya-all); gihī (katthaci)What five?Katamehi pañcahi? They encourage them in higher ethics.Adhisīle samādapeti; *Adhisīle → adhisīlesu (sya-all)They equip them to see the truth of the teachings.dhammadassane niveseti; When they are sick, they go to them and prompt their mindfulness, saying:gilānake upasaṅkamitvā satiṁ uppādeti: ‘Establish your mindfulness, good fellows, in what is worthy.’‘arahaggataṁ āyasmanto satiṁ upaṭṭhāpethā’ti; When a large mendicant Saṅgha is arriving with mendicants from abroad, they go to the lay people and announce:mahā kho pana bhikkhusaṅgho abhikkanto nānāverajjakā bhikkhū gihīnaṁ upasaṅkamitvā āroceti: ‘A large mendicant Saṅgha is arriving with mendicants from abroad. Make merit! Now is the time to make merit!’‘mahā kho, āvuso, bhikkhusaṅgho abhikkanto nānāverajjakā bhikkhū, karotha puññāni, samayo puññāni kātun’ti; And they eat whatever food they give them, coarse or fine, not wasting a gift given in faith.yaṁ kho panassa bhojanaṁ denti lūkhaṁ vā paṇītaṁ vā taṁ attanā paribhuñjati, saddhādeyyaṁ na vinipāteti. A resident mendicant with these five qualities shows sympathy to the lay people.”Imehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato āvāsiko bhikkhu gihīnaṁ anukampatī”ti.