Effect of friendship with bad people

[Peter]

having had such a bad companionship does not befit a noble person and has made the prospect of enlightenment less possible.

This is not a teaching of the Buddha.
As I said, if having had bad companionship in the past made one unfit for awakening in the future then no one would ever awaken.

[Stephen K]

having had such a bad companionship does not befit a noble person and has made the prospect of enlightenment less possible.

This is not a teaching of the Buddha.
As I said, if having had bad companionship in the past made one unfit for awakening in the future then no one would ever awaken.

Thanks, I feel more relieved having read this.