an.5.89 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

A Trainee (1st)

“These five things lead to the decline of a mendicant trainee.
What five?
They relish work, talk, sleep, and company. And they don’t review the extent of their mind’s freedom.
These five things lead to the decline of a mendicant trainee.
These five things don’t lead to the decline of a mendicant trainee.
What five?
They don’t relish work, talk, sleep, and company. And they review the extent of their mind’s freedom.
These five things don’t lead to the decline of a mendicant trainee.”