Existential Atlas

AN 5.37 — Food

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“Mendicants, when a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things. What five? Long life, beauty, happiness, strength, and eloquence. Giving long life, they have long life as a god or human. Giving beauty, they have beauty as a god or human. Giving happiness, they have happiness as a god or human. Giving strength, they have strength as a god or human. Giving eloquence, they are eloquent as a god or human. When a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things. Being attentive, one is a giver of life, strength, beauty, and eloquence. An intelligent giver of happiness gains happiness in return. Giving life, strength, beauty, happiness, and eloquence, they’re long-lived and famous wherever they’re reborn.”

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Contents of Numbered Discourses / Anguttara Nikaya (Sujato)