Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 32: When eating, keep the attention on the bowl.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate almsfood looking about here and there; they did not know that they were piled up and overflowing … " …
‘Thinking of the bowl will I eat almsfood,’ is a training to be observed."
One should eat almsfood thinking of the bowl. Whoever out of disrespect eats 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 bhuñjanti, ākirantepi atikkantepi na jānanti … pe … .
2 "pattasaññī piṇḍapātaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (32:177)
3 pattasaññinā piṇḍapāto bhuñjitabbo. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca tahaṃ tahaṃ olokento piṇḍapātaṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.