[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 33.26 # 佛祖統紀 33.26 佛祖統紀 33.26 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [33.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.26) 持齋　佛言。日中三世佛食（毘羅三昧經○今言中食是也）時食若午時。日影過一髮一瞬。即是非時（僧祇律）若比丘非時食者。波逸提（四分戒本○十誦律。波逸提義翻為墮。墮在燒煮地獄）齋者以過中不食為體（毘婆沙論）佛言。一日持齋有六十萬歲糧。復有五福。少病身安少睡少婬得生天識宿命（雜譬喻經）齋者齊也。齊身口業也。齊者秪是中道。後不得食者。表中道法界外更無別法也（請觀音疏）。 > Upholding the Fast: The Buddha said, "At midday, the Buddhas of the three periods eat." (Piluosanmei jing; this is what is now called the midday meal.) The proper time to eat is noon; if the shadow of the sun passes by a single hair or an instant, it is immediately the improper time. (Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya) If a monk eats at an improper time, it is a pāyattika. (Dharmaguptaka Prātimokṣa; the Sarvāstivāda Vinaya translates the meaning of pāyattika as 'falling', falling into the hell of boiling and cooking.) The essence of the fast is not eating past midday. (Abhidharma-mahāvibhāṣā-śāstra) The Buddha said, "Upholding the fast for one day yields provisions for six hundred thousand years, and furthermore possesses five blessings: few illnesses, bodily ease, little sleep, little lust, and rebirth in heaven with knowledge of past lives." (Za piyu jing) Fast (zhai) means to equalize (qi)—it equalizes the karmas of body and speech. Equalizing is simply the Middle Way. Not being permitted to eat afterwards indicates that outside the Dharma-realm of the Middle Way, there is no other Dharma. (Qingguanyin shu) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 33.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.25) - [Next: 33.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.27) - [Up: 33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.33.26) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.26) · Pramāṇa