{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_cp2/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_cp2","id":"suttacentral_cp2","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/cp2/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThen again when I was a brahmin named Sa\u1e45kha, wanting to cross the great ocean, I was on my way to the port. There I saw across the way one self-awakened, undefeated, walking a desert road whose ground was hot and rough. Seeing him across the way, I thought this: \u2018A field has appeared for a personage desiring merit. Now suppose a farmer seeing a fertile field does not sow seed there, then they are not in need of grain. So too, if I, desiring merit, seeing a supreme excellent field, do not render service there, then I am not in need of merit. Or suppose a minister seeking the royal seal of authority over the people of the court, does not give them money and grain, their authority dwindles. So too, if I, desiring merit, seeing an abundantly worthy recipient, do not give gifts to them, I will dwindle in merit.\u2019 Reflecting in this way, I took off my sandals and bowed to his feet, giving him an umbrella and sandals. Though I was a hundred times more delicate and pampered than him, fulfilling my giving, I gave like this to him.\u201d","title":"Sa\u1e45kha\u2019s Conduct","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":193}