6.
The Discourse on Timely Giving
36.
"There are, monks, these five timely gifts.
Which five?
One gives a gift to a visitor;
one gives a gift to one departing;
one gives a gift to one who is ill;
one gives a gift during a famine;
whatever new crops and new fruits there are, one first establishes them among the virtuous.
These, monks, are the five timely gifts."
"The wise give at the proper time, bountiful, free from avarice;
Given in proper time to the noble ones, to such upright ones.
"With a clear mind towards them, the offering is abundant;
Those who rejoice therein, or who perform service;
The offering is not diminished by that, they too are sharers in the merit.
"Therefore one should give with a non-regressing mind, where what is given is of great fruit;
Merits are a support for beings in the world beyond." The sixth.