增支部第 4 集（Sujato 英译）第 60 阅读页 · AN4.60 · Lay Practice

Numbered Discourses 4.60Numbered Discourses 4.606. Overflowing Merit6. Overflowing Merit

Lay PracticeLay PracticeThen the householder Anāthapiṇḍika went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him:Then the householder Anāthapiṇḍika went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him:“Householder, when a noble disciple does four things they are practicing appropriately for a layperson, which brings fame and leads to heaven.“Householder, when a noble disciple does four things they are practicing appropriately for a layperson, which brings fame and leads to heaven.

What four?What four?It’s when a noble disciple serves the mendicant Saṅgha with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick.It’s when a noble disciple serves the mendicant Saṅgha with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick.When a noble disciple does these four things they are practicing appropriately for a layperson, which brings fame and leads to heaven.When a noble disciple does these four things they are practicing appropriately for a layperson, which brings fame and leads to heaven.

Those who are astute practice the wayThose who are astute practice the waythat’s appropriate for laypeople.that’s appropriate for laypeople.They provide those who are ethicalThey provide those who are ethical

and rightly comported with robes,and rightly comported with robes,almsfood, lodgings,almsfood, lodgings,and supplies for the sick.and supplies for the sick.

Their merit always growsTheir merit always growsby day and by night.by day and by night.They pass on to a place in heaven,They pass on to a place in heaven,

having done excellent deeds.”having done excellent deeds.”