法苑珠林 81.14

81.14

Second, the contrast between light and heavy has four [cases]: 1. The mind is heavy, but the material gift is light: for example, a poor woman offering a single coin to the monastic assembly obtains vastly great merit. 2. The material gift is heavy, but the mind is light: for example, a king's consort whose mind is arrogant, though she presents many precious things to the assembly, obtains scanty merit. (The latter two can be understood from this.)