195. Then after begging for his food Venerable Sāriputta sat eating it while leaning against a wall. Then the female wanderer Sucimukhi came up to Sāriputta and said: “O monk, why do you eat looking downwards?”
“I do not eat looking downwards.”
“Then do you eat looking up?”
“I do not eat looking up.”
“Then do you eat looking in the four directions?”
“I do not eat looking in the four directions.”
“Then you must eat looking at the points in between?”
“I do not eat looking at the points in between.”
“Then how do you eat?”
“Whatever monks and brahmans get their living in such wrong ways as divination and other low arts; they are called those who eat looking down. Whatever monks and brahmans get their living in such wrong ways as astrology and other low arts; they are called those who eat looking up. Whatever monks and brahmans get their living in such wrong ways as sending messages and running errands, they are called those who eat looking in four directions. And whatever monks and brahmans get their living in such wrong ways as palmistry and other low arts; they are called those who eat looking at the points in between. But I am one who gets his living in none of these ways. I seek my food rightly and rightly do I eat it after I have sought it.”
S.III,238-9* (SN 28.10)
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