A second and a third time he came to me. Undisturbed, ungrasping, I gave in just the same way.

That is the reason why my body is not discolored. In rapture and bliss free of relishing I spend the day.

If even for a month or two I were to find a worthy recipient, undisturbed, unattached, I would give the supreme gift.

While giving him that gift I did not wish for fame or profit. Wishing for omniscience I performed those deeds.”

The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood The Chapter With Akitti The Perfection of Giving (2nd) Saṅkha’s Conduct

“Then again when I was a brahmin named Saṅkha, wanting to cross the great ocean, I was on my way to the port.

There I saw across the way one self-awakened, undefeated, walking a desert road whose ground was hot and rough.

Seeing him across the way, I thought this: ‘A field has appeared for a personage desiring merit.

Now suppose a farmer seeing a fertile field does not sow seed there, then they are not in need of grain.