Samyutta Nikaya: Kassapasamyutta (II-16)

 

Much of this samyutta focuses on being happy with very little—or with nothing.

 

A handful of rice to eat each day: this can be viewed as a hardship, or as a reason to be grateful.

 

Later on (8) there appears to be some nostalgia for the good old days before the Buddha and Sangha had the big monasteries, and the bhikkhus lived in the forest. But these young ones are “impatient and do not accept instruction respectfully.”

 

10: I hate to admit it, but I found this one very funny.

 

13: “It is the senseless people who arise right here who cause the true Dhamma to disappear.”