Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 27: To adopt a respectful attitude when going to collect food.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks accepted almsfood inattentively, as though desirous of throwing it away … " …
‘Attentively will I accept almsfood,’ is a training to be observed."
One should accept almsfood attentively. Whoever out of disrespect accepts almsfood inattentively, as though desirous of throwing it away, there is an offence of wrong-doing.
There is no offence if it is unintentional … if he is the first wrong-doer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū asakkaccaṃ piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggaṇhanti chaḍḍetukāmā viya … pe … .
2 "sakkaccaṃ piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggahessāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (27:172)
3 sakkaccaṃ piṇḍapāto paṭiggahetabbo. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca asakkaccaṃ piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggaṇhāti chaḍḍetukāmo viya, āpatti dukkaṭassa.