勅修百丈清規 4.41

4.41

His office oversees the assembly's porridge and midday meal; all offerings must be pure and clean. He blends ingredients, supervises kitchen duties, and protects and cherishes the permanent assets, never wasting them recklessly. He instructs the postulants to abide by the rules, and in serving and general communal work they must not be remiss. He cares for the garden laborers, planting in season and distributing benefits equally. For the two meals, he dines in the kitchen, eating porridge and cooked rice no different from the assembly. When the porridge and rice are loaded into the buckets, he first burns incense facing the Sangha hall, makes prostrations, and only then dispatches them to the hall.