iti100:0.1So It Was Said 100
iti100:0.2The Book of the Fours
iti100:0.3The Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching
iti100:0.4The Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching
iti100:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti100:2.1“I, mendicants, am a brahmin, committed to charity, always open-handed, bearing my final body, a healer, a surgeon.
iti100:2.2You are my bosom sons, born from my mouth, born of the teaching, created by the teaching, heirs in the teaching, not in things of the flesh.
iti100:3.1There are these two gifts.
iti100:3.2A gift of things of the flesh and a gift of the teaching.
iti100:3.3The better of these two gifts is the gift of the teaching.
iti100:4.1There are these two kinds of sharing.
iti100:4.2Sharing things of the flesh and sharing the teaching.
iti100:4.3The better of these two kinds of sharing is sharing the teaching.
iti100:5.1There are these two kinds of support.
iti100:5.2Support in things of the flesh and support in the teaching.
iti100:5.3The better of these two kinds of support is support in the teaching.
iti100:6.1There are these two offerings.
iti100:6.2An offering of things of the flesh and an offering of the teaching.
iti100:6.3The better of these two offerings is an offering of the teaching.”
iti100:6.4The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti100:6.5On this it is said:
iti100:7.1“The Realized One, compassionate for all living creatures,
iti100:7.2unstintingly offers teaching.
iti100:7.3Sentient beings revere him, first among gods and humans,
iti100:7.4who has gone beyond rebirth.”
iti100:8.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.