Iti 26Giving
Pāli / Sanskrit:Dānasutta
If you knew, as the Buddha did, the results of giving and sharing, you wouldn’t eat without having shared.
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– So It Was Said 26
The Book of the Ones Chapter Three Giving
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, if sentient beings only knew, as I do, the fruit of giving and sharing, they would not eat without first giving, and the stain of stinginess would not occupy their minds. They would not eat without sharing even their last mouthful, their last morsel, so long as there was someone to receive it. It is because sentient beings do not know, as I do, the fruit of giving and sharing, that they eat without first giving, and the stain of stinginess occupies their minds.”
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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