法句譬喻經 16.p5
Texts from the Buddhist Canon commonly known as Dhammapada, with accompanying narratives 16.p5
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16.p5
“If a man each month repeat a thousand sacrifices, and go on making his bodily offerings without ceasing, this is not equal to that man's conduct who but for a moment, with undivided attention (yih sin, ekachittam), fixes his mind upon the Law. The happiness consequent on one moment of deep reflection exceeds that (which results from) of the sacrifice of the bodies (of untold victims). Although a man for a hundred years worship and sacrifice to the spirit of Fire, his merit is not equal to that of the man who for a moment pays reverence to the Three Holy Ones; the happiness consequent on one such act of homage excels that resulting from all those hundred years.”