Roots of Dispute (AN6.36)

Numbered Discourses 6.36

4. Deities

Roots of Dispute

“Mendicants, there are these six roots of dispute.

What six?

Firstly, a mendicant is irritable and acrimonious.

Such a mendicant lacks respect and reverence for the Teacher, the teaching, and the Saṅgha, and they don’t fulfill the training.

They create a dispute in the Saṅgha, which is for the detriment and unhappiness of the people, against the people, for the harm, detriment, and suffering of gods and humans.

If you see such a root of dispute in yourselves or others, you should try to give up this bad thing.

If you don’t see it, you should practice so that it doesn’t come up in the future.

That’s how to give up this bad root of dispute, so it doesn’t come up in the future.

Furthermore, a mendicant is offensive and contemptuous …

They’re jealous and stingy …

They’re devious and deceitful …

They have corrupt wishes and wrong view …

They’re attached to their own views, holding them tight, and refusing to let go.

Such a mendicant lacks respect and reverence for the Teacher, the teaching, and the Saṅgha, and they don’t fulfill the training.

They create a dispute in the Saṅgha, which is for the detriment and unhappiness of the people, against the people, for the harm, detriment, and suffering of gods and humans.

If you see such a root of dispute in yourselves or others, you should try to give up this bad thing.

If you don’t see it, you should practice so that it doesn’t come up in the future.

That’s how to give up this bad root of dispute, so it doesn’t come up in the future.

These are the six roots of dispute.”