Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 31: Take care to adopt a respectful attitude when eating.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate almsfood inattentively, as though desirous not to eat … " …
‘Attentively will I eat almsfood,’ is a training to be observed."
One should eat almsfood attentively. Whoever out of disrespect eats almsfood inattentively, there is an offence of wrong-doing.
There is no offence if it is unintentional, if he is not thinking, if he does not know, if he is ill, if there are accidents, if he is mad, 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 bhuñjanti abhuñjitukāmā viya … pe … .
2 "sakkaccaṃ piṇḍapātaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (31:176)
3 sakkaccaṃ piṇḍapāto bhuñjitabbo. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca asakkaccaṃ piṇḍapātaṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.