{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn28.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn28.10","id":"suttacentral_sn28.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn28.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable S\u0101riputta was staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. Then he robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, entered R\u0101jagaha for alms. After wandering indiscriminately for almsfood in R\u0101jagaha, he ate his almsfood by a wall. Then the wanderer Sucimukh\u012b went up to Venerable S\u0101riputta and said to him: \u201cAscetic, do you eat facing downwards?\u201d \u201cNo, sister.\u201d \u201cWell then, do you eat facing upwards?\u201d \u201cNo, sister.\u201d \u201cWell then, do you eat facing the cardinal directions?\u201d \u201cNo, sister.\u201d \u201cWell then, do you eat facing the intermediate directions?\u201d \u201cNo, sister.\u201d \u201cWhen asked if you eat facing all these directions, you answer \u2018no, sister\u2019. How then do you eat, ascetic?\u201d \u201cSister, those ascetics and brahmins who earn a living by geomancy\u2014a low lore, a wrong livelihood\u2014are said to eat facing downwards. Those ascetics and brahmins who earn a living by astrology\u2014a low lore, a wrong livelihood\u2014are said to eat facing upwards. Those ascetics and brahmins who earn a living by running errands and messages\u2014a wrong livelihood\u2014are said to eat facing the cardinal directions. Those ascetics and brahmins who earn a living by limb-reading\u2014a low lore, a wrong livelihood\u2014are said to eat facing the intermediate directions. I don\u2019t earn a living by any of these means. I seek alms in a principled manner, and I eat it in a principled manner.\u201d Then Sucimukh\u012b the wanderer went around R\u0101jagaha from street to street and from square to square, and announced: \u201cThe ascetics who follow the Sakyan eat food in a principled manner! The ascetics who follow the Sakyan eat food blamelessly! Give almsfood to the ascetics who follow the Sakyan!\u201d The Linked Discourses on S\u0101riputta are complete.","title":"With Sucimukh\u012b","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":284}