Numbered Discourses 8.37

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1. Numbered Discourses 8.37
2. 4. Giving
3. Gifts of a True Person
4. “Mendicants, there are these eight gifts of a true person.
5. What eight?
6. Their gift is pure, good quality, timely, appropriate, intelligent, and regular. While giving their heart is confident, and afterwards they’re uplifted.
7. These are the eight gifts of a true person.
8. He gives pure, good quality, and timely gifts
9. of appropriate food and drinks
10. regularly to spiritual practitioners
11. who are fertile fields of merit.
12. They never regret
13. giving away many things of the flesh.
14. Discerning people praise
15. giving such gifts.
16. An intelligent person sacrifices like this,
17. faithful, with a mind of letting go.
18. Such an astute person is reborn
19. in a happy, pleasing world.”