Uttarajjhayana 35

Listen with single-minded attention to the path taught by the enlightened ones, / practicing which a monk puts an end to suffering.

Having abandoned life in a house and taken up mendicancy, the sage / should understand these attachments by which mortals are bound.

Likewise, violence, falsehood, taking what is not given, sexual intercourse, / desire, lust, and greed: the restrained one should avoid them.

Delightful, painted with pictures, perfumed with garlands and incense, / with doors and white ceilings: even in mind he should not desire [such a dwelling].

For it is difficult for a monk in such a lodging / to restrain his sense organs which inflame sexual desire and passion.

In a cemetery, a deserted house, or alone at the foot of a tree, / in a secluded place or one prepared by another, he should take pleasure in dwelling there.

In a faultless, undisturbed place, not frequented by women, / the supremely restrained monk should resolve to reside there.

He should not build houses himself, nor cause others to build them; / in undertaking the work of building a house, the slaughter of living beings is seen.

Of mobile and immobile, subtle and gross [beings]; / therefore, the restrained one should avoid the undertaking of building a house.

Likewise, in the cooking and causing to cook of food and drink, / for the sake of compassion toward breathing and living beings, he should neither cook nor cause to cook.

Souls dependent on water and grain, dependent on earth and wood, / are destroyed in [cooking] food and drink; therefore, a monk should not cook.

Spreading widely, carrying destruction everywhere, destroying many living beings: / there is no weapon equal to fire; therefore, he should not kindle fire.

Silver and gold he should not desire even in his mind; / regarding a clod of earth and gold alike, the monk should abstain from buying and selling.

Buying, one becomes a buyer; selling, one becomes a merchant; / engaging in buying and selling, a monk cannot remain as he should be.

One should beg, not buy, as a monk living by alms; / buying and selling is a great fault, while living by alms brings bliss.

He should seek food collected from various houses, unblamable according to the sūtra; / content with gain or loss, the sage should wander for alms-bowl food.

Not greedy, not craving flavors, his tongue subdued, free from infatuation, / the great sage should not eat for the sake of taste, but to sustain life.

Homage, hospitality, veneration, and worship, / worldly prosperity, respect, and honor: even in mind he should not desire them.

He should meditate on pure meditation, free from worldly longing and possessions; / relinquishing his body, he should live until his time comes to an end.

Giving up food when the hour of death has arrived, / leaving behind his human body, the master is released from suffering.

Free from the sense of 'mine', free from egoism, devoid of passion, free from karmic inflow, / having attained omniscient knowledge, he attains eternal complete liberation. — Thus I say.