7.
The Discourse on the Good Person's Giving
37.
"There are, monks, these eight gifts of a good person.
What are the eight?
One gives what is pure, one gives what is superior, one gives in proper time, one gives what is allowable, one gives with discrimination, one gives repeatedly, while giving one makes the mind confident, having given one is delighted.
These, monks, are the eight gifts of a good person."
"Pure, superior, in proper time, allowable drink and food;
One gives a gift repeatedly, to the good fields, the practitioners of the holy life.
"Indeed not remorseful, having given up much material gain;
Gifts given thus, those with insight praise.
"Having thus sacrificed, the wise one, faithful, with a liberated mind;
The wise one is reborn in a world of happiness, free from affliction." The seventh.