Giving Up Stinginess

Aṅguttara Nikāya

26. Upasampadāvagga

Macchariyappahānasutta

Numbered Discourses

26. The Chapter on Ordination

Giving Up Stinginess

Aṅguttara Nikāya

26. Upasampadāvagga

Macchariyappahānasutta

Getting rid of the five kinds of stinginess.

Ruta suttaAN 5.255Sutta PiṭakaAṅguttara Nikāya5. Pañcakanipāta6. Chaṭṭhapaṇṇāsaka26. UpasampadāvaggaMacchariyappahānasutta

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Vista:

“Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess. What five? Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teachings. The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess.”

“Pañcannaṁ, bhikkhave, macchariyānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. Katamesaṁ pañcannaṁ? Āvāsamacchariyassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati; kulamacchariyassa … lābhamacchariyassa … vaṇṇamacchariyassa … dhammamacchariyassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ macchariyānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti.

“Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess.

“Pañcannaṁ, bhikkhave, macchariyānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.

What five?

Katamesaṁ pañcannaṁ?

Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teachings.

Āvāsamacchariyassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati;

kulamacchariyassa … lābhamacchariyassa … vaṇṇamacchariyassa … dhammamacchariyassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.

The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess.”

Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ macchariyānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti.

“Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess. “Pañcannaṁ, bhikkhave, macchariyānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. What five? Katamesaṁ pañcannaṁ? Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teachings. Āvāsamacchariyassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati; kulamacchariyassa … lābhamacchariyassa … vaṇṇamacchariyassa … dhammamacchariyassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess.” Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ macchariyānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti.

Pañcamaṁ.