Book Title: Text of Confucianism Part 02
Author(s): James Legge
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ 252 KULLAVAGGA. VII, 3, 14. “The Blessed One, Lord, has declared in many a figure the advantages of the man who wishes for little, who is easy to satisfy in the matter of support and nourishment, who has eradicated evil from his mind, has quelled his passions, and is full of faith, of reverence, and of the exercise of zeal?. The following five things, Lord, conduce to such a condition. It would be good, Lord, if the Bhikkhus should be, their lives long, dwellers in the woodsif whosoever goes to the neighbourhood of a village should thereby commit an offence. It would be good if they should, their lives long, beg for almsif whosoever should accept an invitation, should thereby commit an offence. It would be good if they should clothe themselves, their lives long, in cast-off rags-if whosoever should accept a gift of robes from a layman", should thereby commit an offence. It would be good if they should dwell, their lives long, under the trees Sif whosoever should (sleep) under a roof, should thereby commit an offence. It would be good if they should, their lives long, abstain from fish —if whosoever should 1 This is part of the standing religious discourse' so often ascribed to the Buddha in the Vinaya texts, and given at full in the Kullavagga I, 1-3. It was on precisely the same reasoning that a certain Bhikkhu in Mahâvagga VIII, 28, 1, endeavoured to get the Buddha to convert to the rejection of all clothing. * At Mahavagga VIII, I, 35, it is laid down that a Bhikkhu may either dress in cast-off rags, or accept robes from a layman, according as he likes. This dwelling under trees is expressly forbidden, as regards the season of the rains, in Mahavagga III, 12, 5. • The rule of the Order is merely that no one may knowingly eat fish which he has seen or heard or suspected to have been caught for that purpose. See Mahâvagga VI, 31, 14. Digilzed by Google

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