IF HE SHOULD DESIRE– ÂKANKHEYYA-SUTTA
4. ‘If a Bhikkhu should desire, Brethren, to receive the requisites–clothing, food, lodging, and medicine, and other necessaries for the sick–let him then fulfil all righteousness, let him be devoted to that quietude of heart which springs from within, let him not drive back the ecstasy of contemplation, let him look through things, let him be much alone!’
5. ‘If a Bhikkhu should desire, Brethren, that to those people among whom he receives the requisites–clothing, food, lodging, and medicine, and other necessaries for the sick–that charity of theirs should redound to great fruit and great advantage, let him then fulfil all righteousness, let him be devoted to that quietude of heart which springs from within, let him not drive back the ecstasy of contemplation, let him look through things, let him be much alone!’
6. ‘If a Bhikkhu should desire, Brethren, that those relatives of his, of one blood with him, dead and gone, who think of him with believing heart should find therein great fruit and great advantage, let him then fulfil all righteousness, let him be devoted to that quietude of heart which springs from within, let him not drive back the ecstasy of contemplation, let him look through things, let him be much alone!’
Buddhist Suttas – Âkankheyya Sutta: If He Should Desire
Translated from Pâli by T. W. Rhys Davids [1881]
Âkankheyya Sutta: If He Should Desire