Becoming Content
66. ‘And how, O king, is the Bhikshu content?
‘In this matter, O king, the Bhikshu is satisfied with sufficient robes to cherish his body, with sufficient food to keep his stomach going. Whithersoever he may go forth, these he takes with him as he goes–just as a bird with his wings, O king, whithersoever he may fly, carries his wings with him as he flies. Thus is it, ‘O king, that the Bhikshu becomes content.
67. ‘Then, master of this so excellent body of moral precepts, gifted with this so excellent self-restraint as to the senses, endowed with this so excellent mindfulness and self-possession, filled with this so excellent content, he chooses some lonely spot to rest at on his way–in the woods, at the foot of a tree, on a hill side, in a mountain glen, in a rocky cave, in a charnel place, or on a heap of straw in the open field. And returning thither after his round for alms he seats himself, when his meal is done, cross-legged, keeping his body erect, and his intelligence alert, intent.
Translated from the Pâli by T. W. Rhys Davids – London, H. Frowde, Oxford University Press [1899] http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/dob/dob-02tx.htm#p.%2078
Comment: Don’t accumulate things, get rid of them? To your happiness – Mark