Basket of Conduct 1

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1. The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood
2. The Chapter With Akitti
3. The Perfection of Giving (1st)
4. Akitti’s Conduct
5. Homage to that Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha!
6. “For a hundred thousand eons
7. and four incalculable ages,
8. all my conduct in that period
9. ripens in awakening.
10. Setting aside my conduct
11. in past eons through different lives,
12. I shall speak of my conduct
13. in this eon, hear me.
14. When I lived having plunged
15. into the formidable jungle
16. of empty thickets and glades,
17. my name was Akitti the mortifier.
18. Then, burned by the fires of my mortification,
19. the sovereign of the Third Heaven,
20. came to me for alms
21. in the form of a brahmin.
22. I had gathered leaves from the forest
23. without oil or salt,
24. and seeing him standing at my door,
25. I placed them in his pot.
26. After giving him the leaves
27. I turned over my plate,
28. and having given up on seeking more food,
29. I entered my hut of leaves.
30. A second and a third time
31. he came to me.
32. Undisturbed, ungrasping,
33. I gave in just the same way.
34. That is the reason why
35. my body is not discolored.
36. In rapture and bliss free of relishing
37. I spend the day.
38. If even for a month or two
39. I were to find a worthy recipient,
40. undisturbed, unattached,
41. I would give the supreme gift.
42. While giving him that gift
43. I did not wish for fame or profit.
44. Wishing for omniscience
45. I performed those deeds.”