8.
The Discourse on Offering
78.
"There are, monks, these four purifications of offerings.
What are the four?
There is, monks, an offering that becomes pure on account of the donor, not on account of the recipient;
there is, monks, an offering that becomes pure on account of the recipient, not on account of the donor;
there is, monks, an offering that becomes pure neither on account of the donor nor on account of the recipient;
there is, monks, an offering that becomes pure both on account of the donor and on account of the recipient.
"And how, monks, does an offering become pure on account of the donor, not on account of the recipient? Here, monks, the donor is moral, of good character; the recipients are immoral, of bad character. Thus, monks, an offering becomes pure on account of the donor, not on account of the recipient.
"And how, monks, does an offering become pure on account of the recipient, not on account of the donor? Here, monks, the donor is immoral, of bad character; the recipients are moral, of good character. Thus, monks, an offering becomes pure on account of the recipient, not on account of the donor.
"And how, monks, does an offering become pure neither on account of the donor nor on account of the recipient? Here, monks, the donor is immoral, of bad character; the recipients too are immoral, of bad character. Thus, monks, an offering becomes pure neither on account of the donor nor on account of the recipient.
"And how, monks, does an offering become pure both on account of the donor and on account of the recipient? Here, monks, the donor is moral, of good character; the recipients too are moral, of good character. Thus, monks, an offering becomes pure both on account of the donor and on account of the recipient. These, monks, are the four purifications of offerings." The eighth.