{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_ud3.8/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_ud3.8","id":"suttacentral_ud3.8","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/ud3.8/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Now at that time, after the meal, on return from almsround, several mendicants sat together in the pavilion by the kareri tree and this discussion came up among them: \u201cReverends, when a mendicant who eats only almsfood is wandering for alms, from time to time they get to see pleasing sights, hear pleasing sounds, smell pleasing odors, taste pleasing flavors, and encounter pleasing touches. They wander for alms being honored, respected, revered, venerated, and esteemed. Come, we too should eat only almsfood. From time to time we too will get to see pleasing sights, hear pleasing sounds, smell pleasing odors, taste pleasing flavors, and encounter pleasing touches. We too shall wander for alms being honored, respected, revered, venerated, and esteemed.\u201d At that point the conversation among those mendicants was left unfinished. Then in the late afternoon, the Buddha came out of retreat and went to the pavilion by the kareri tree, where he sat down on the seat spread out and addressed the mendicants: \u201cMendicants, what were you sitting talking about just now? What conversation was left unfinished?\u201d So the mendicants told him what they had been talking about. The Buddha said, \u201cMendicants, it is not appropriate for you gentlemen who have gone forth out of faith from the lay life to homelessness to talk about such things. When you\u2019re sitting together you should do one of two things: discuss the teachings or keep noble silence.\u201d Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment: \u201cA mendicant who relies on alms, self-supported, providing for no other; the unaffected one is envied by even the gods, but not if they\u2019re after popularity and reputation.\u201d","title":"One Who Eats Only Almsfood","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":295}