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Numbered Discourses · AN 5.254

  • Numbered Discourses 5.254Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.254
  • 26. Ordination26. Upasampadāvagga

Five Kinds of StinginessPañcamacchariyasutta

“Mendicants, there are these five kinds of stinginess.“Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, macchariyāni. What five?Katamāni pañca? Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teachings.Āvāsamacchariyaṁ, kulamacchariyaṁ, lābhamacchariyaṁ, vaṇṇamacchariyaṁ, dhammamacchariyaṁ— These are the five kinds of stinginess.imāni kho, bhikkhave, pañca macchariyāni. The most contemptible of these five kinds of stinginess is stinginess with the teaching.”Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ macchariyānaṁ etaṁ paṭikuṭṭhaṁ, yadidaṁ dhammamacchariyan”ti.

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