Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 28: Maintain the attention on the bowl 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 looking about here and there; they did not know that they were piled up and overflowing … " …
‘Thinking of the bowl will I accept almsfood,’ is a training to be observed."
One should accept almsfood thinking of the bowl. Whoever out of disrespect accepts almsfood, looking about here and there, 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 tahaṃ tahaṃ olokentā piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggaṇhanti, ākirantepi atikkantepi na jānanti … pe … .
2 "pattasaññī piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggahessāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (28:173)
3 pattasaññinā piṇḍapāto paṭiggahetabbo. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca tahaṃ tahaṃ olokento piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggaṇhāti, āpatti dukkaṭassa.