10.
The Discourse on the Beggar
206.
At Sāvatthī.
Then the brahmin beggar approached the Blessed One;
having approached, he exchanged friendly greetings with the Blessed One.
Having concluded the pleasant and memorable talk, he sat down to one side.
Seated to one side, the brahmin beggar said this to the Blessed One:
"I too, Master Gotama, am a beggar, and you too are a beggar; here what is the difference between us?"
Having taken up a foul teaching, one is not a monk by that much.
Wanders in the world with understanding, he indeed is called a monk."
When this was said, the brahmin beggar said this to the Blessed One: "Excellent, Master Gotama, excellent, Master Gotama! Etc. May Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge from this day forth for life."