{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.123/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.123","id":"suttacentral_an3.123","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.123/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Kusin\u0101r\u0101 in the Forest of Offerings. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, take the case of a mendicant living supported by a town or village. A householder or their child approaches and invites them for the next day\u2019s meal. The mendicant accepts if they want. When the night has passed, they robe up in the morning, take their bowl and robe, and approach that householder\u2019s home, where they sit on the seat spread out. The householder or their child serves and satisfies them with their own hands with delicious fresh and cooked foods. The mendicant thinks: \u2018It\u2019s so good that this householder serves me with delicious fresh and cooked foods.\u2019 Then they think: \u2018I really hope this householder serves me with delicious fresh and cooked foods in the future, too.\u2019 They eat that food tied, infatuated, attached, blind to the drawbacks, and not understanding the escape. They think about it with sensual, malicious, or cruel thoughts. A gift to such a mendicant is not very fruitful, I say. Why is that? Because that mendicant is negligent. Take another case of a mendicant living supported by a town or village. A householder or their child approaches and invites them for the next day\u2019s meal. The mendicant accepts if they want. When the night has passed, they robe up in the morning, take their bowl and robe, and approach that householder\u2019s home, where they sit on the seat spread out. The householder or their child serves and satisfies them with their own hands with delicious fresh and cooked foods. It never occurs to them: \u2018It\u2019s so good that the householder or their child serves and satisfies me with their own hands with delicious fresh and cooked foods.\u2019 They don\u2019t think: \u2018I really hope this householder serves me with delicious fresh and cooked foods in the future, too.\u2019 They eat that almsfood untied, uninfatuated, unattached, seeing the drawback, and understanding the escape. They think about it with thoughts of renunciation, good will, or harmlessness. A gift to such a mendicant is very fruitful, I say. Why is that? Because that mendicant is diligent.\u201d","title":"At Kusin\u0101r\u0101","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":368}