8.
The Discourse on the Good Person's Giving
148.
"There are, monks, these five gifts of a good person.
Which five?
One gives a gift with faith, one gives a gift attentively, one gives a gift in proper time, one gives a gift with an unattached mind, one gives a gift without wounding oneself and others.
But, monks, having given a gift with faith, wherever the result of that gift arises, he is wealthy, of great riches, of great possessions, and he is handsome, good-looking, pleasing, endowed with the highest beauty of complexion.
But, monks, having given a gift attentively, wherever the result of that gift arises, he is wealthy, of great riches, of great possessions. And those who are his sons or wives or slaves or servants or labourers, they too listen, lend an ear, and apply their minds to final knowledge.
But, monks, having given a gift in proper time, wherever the result of that gift arises, he is wealthy, of great riches, of great possessions; and benefits come to him abundantly at the right time.
But, monks, having given a gift with an unattached mind, wherever the result of that gift arises, he is wealthy, of great riches, of great possessions; and his mind inclines to the enjoyment of the five excellent types of sensual pleasure.
But, monks, having given a gift without wounding oneself and others, wherever the result of that gift arises, he is wealthy, of great riches, of great possessions; and no destruction of his wealth comes from anywhere, whether from fire or from water or from kings or from thieves or from disliked heirs. These, monks, are the five gifts of a good person." The eighth.