Iti 107Very Helpful
Pāli / Sanskrit:Bahukārasutta
The reciprocal ways in which monks and lay supporters benefit one another.
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– So It Was Said 107
The Book of the Fours The Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching Very Helpful
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, brahmins and householders are very helpful to you, as they provide you with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. And you are very helpful to brahmins and householders, as you teach them the Dhamma that’s good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased. And you reveal a spiritual practice that’s entirely full and pure. That is how this spiritual path is lived supporting each other in order to cross over the flood and make a complete end of suffering.”
The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
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