諸經要集 5.95

5.95

The commentary states: Recently I have seen various people eating proper-time foods during improper-time periods. What are these? Namely, monastics and laity in border regions and the like, hearing that the Vinaya allows the consumption of fruit syrups and juices, thereupon consume the juice of dried dates, or raw pears, grapes, and pomegranates without pressing out the juice, drinking it and eating the seeds along with them; or though they press the juice, they do not strain it until clear, but take the turbid, thick juice and consume it together with the dregs. Or some, hearing that the consumption of lotus-root juice is permitted, when suffering from a heat illness, take raw lotus rhizomes and eat them raw. Or some take clear congee water and drink it; or when their bodies are neither hungry nor thirsty, eat ghee, oil, honey, rock sugar, and so on at improper times; or boil apricot kernels into a thick soup. Such abuses are not isolated; they cannot be recounted in full. If judged according to the Sarvāstivāda-vinaya, those who are not the five kinds of people such as long-distance travelers mentioned above must not eat them arbitrarily; eating them breaks the fast. Seeing that those who commit offenses are numerous, I have therefore recorded this in a separate note with a verse, saying: