Numbered Discourses 4.27
- At Uruvelā
Contentment
“Mendicants, these four trifles are easy to find and are blameless.
What four?
Rag-robes …
A lump of almsfood …
Lodgings at the root of a tree …
Rancid urine as medicine …
These four trifles are easy to find and are blameless.
When a mendicant is content with trifles that are easy to find, they have one of the factors of the ascetic life, I say.
When you’re content with what’s blameless,
trifling, and easy to find,
you don’t get upset
about lodgings, robes,
food, and drink,
and you’re not obstructed anywhere.
These qualities are said to be
integral to the ascetic life.
They’re mastered by one who trains,
content and diligent.”