an.2.63 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)
63
“In a disciplinary issue, when the tale-bearing on both sides—with contempt for each other’s views, resentful, bitter, and exasperated—is not settled internally, you can expect that this disciplinary issue will be
long, fractious, and troublesome, and the mendicants won’t live comfortably.
In a disciplinary issue, when the tale-bearing on both sides—with contempt for each other’s views, resentful, bitter, and exasperated—is well settled internally, you can expect that this disciplinary issue
won’t lead to lasting acrimony and enmity, and the mendicants will live comfortably.”
“In a disciplinary issue, when the tale-bearing on both sides—with contempt for each other’s views, resentful, bitter, and exasperated—is not settled internally, you can expect that this disciplinary issue will be
long, fractious, and troublesome, and the mendicants won’t live comfortably.
In a disciplinary issue, when the tale-bearing on both sides—with contempt for each other’s views, resentful, bitter, and exasperated—is well settled internally, you can expect that this disciplinary issue
won’t lead to lasting acrimony and enmity, and the mendicants will live comfortably.”