{"id":"an5.154","title":"The Decline of the True Teaching (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.154","title":"The Decline of the True Teaching (1st)","units":[{"id":"an5.154:0","sourceIds":["an5.154:0.1","an5.154:0.2","an5.154:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.154\n16. Saddhammavagga\nPaṭhamasaddhammasammosasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.154\n16. The True Teaching\nThe Decline of the True Teaching (1st)"}},{"id":"an5.154:1","sourceIds":["an5.154:1.1","an5.154:1.2","an5.154:1.3","an5.154:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcime, bhikkhave, dhammā saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattanti.\nKatame pañca?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhū na sakkaccaṁ dhammaṁ suṇanti, na sakkaccaṁ dhammaṁ pariyāpuṇanti, na sakkaccaṁ dhammaṁ dhārenti, na sakkaccaṁ dhātānaṁ dhammānaṁ atthaṁ upaparikkhanti, na sakkaccaṁ atthamaññāya dhammamaññāya dhammānudhammaṁ paṭipajjanti.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, pañca dhammā saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattanti.","en":"“Mendicants, these five things lead to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching.\nWhat five?\nIt’s when mendicants don’t carefully listen to the teachings, memorize them, and remember them. They don’t carefully examine the meaning of teachings that they remember. And they don’t carefully practice in line with the meaning and the teaching they’ve understood.\nThese five things lead to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching."}},{"id":"an5.154:2","sourceIds":["an5.154:2.1","an5.154:2.2","an5.154:2.3","an5.154:2.4","an5.154:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcime, bhikkhave, dhammā saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattanti.\nKatame pañca?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhū sakkaccaṁ dhammaṁ suṇanti, sakkaccaṁ dhammaṁ pariyāpuṇanti, sakkaccaṁ dhammaṁ dhārenti, sakkaccaṁ dhātānaṁ dhammānaṁ atthaṁ upaparikkhanti, sakkaccaṁ atthamaññāya dhammamaññāya dhammānudhammaṁ paṭipajjanti.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, pañca dhammā saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattantī”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"These five things lead to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching.\nWhat five?\nIt’s when mendicants carefully listen to the teachings, memorize them, and remember them. They carefully examine the meaning of teachings that they remember. And they carefully practice in line with the meaning and the teaching they’ve understood.\nThese five things lead to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.154/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}