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- Samyutta Nikaya XX.4
- Okkha Sutta
- Serving Dishes
- For free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma
Staying at Savatthi. "Monks, if someone were to give a gift of one hundred serving
dishes [of food] in the morning, one hundred at mid-day, and one hundred in the evening;
and another person were to develop a mind of good-will -- even for the time it takes to
pull on a cow's udder -- in the morning, again at mid-day, and again in the evening, this
[the second action] would be more fruitful than that [the first].
"Thus you should train yourselves: 'Our release of awareness through good-will
will be cultivated, developed, pursued, given a means of transport, given a grounding,
steadied, consolidated, & well-undertaken. That's how you should train
yourselves."
See also: Iti 27.