3.
The Chapter on Long Wandering
1.
Commentary on the First Discourse on Long Wandering
221. In the first of the third, "unsettled wandering" means wandering that is not settled. "One does not purify what has been heard" means whatever learning one has, one is not able to purify it. "One is unconfident with a certain amount of learning" means even with little by little learning that exists, one does not attain pleasure through knowledge. "Settled wandering" means in settled wandering. The second is of clear meaning.
3-4.
Commentary on the Discourse on Excessive Dwelling, Etc.
223-224. In the third, "many goods" means many requisites. "Many medicines" means many medicines due to the abundance of ghee, butter, and so on. "Experienced" means attached. "In company" means having been in company through the fivefold bonding. "Not becoming" means unsuitable for the Dispensation. In the fourth, "stingy with praise" means stingy with virtues. "Stingy with the Teaching" means stingy with the Scriptures.
5-6.
Commentary on the Discourse on Dependent on Families, Etc.
225-226. In the fifth, "commits an offence of going without informing" means he commits the offence stated in the training rule: "Having been invited, with food, without asking permission from a monk who is present, should visit families before the meal or after the meal." "Sitting down in a secret place" and so on should be understood by way of those respective training rules. In the sixth, "excessively" means a time that has exceeded the proper measure. The seventh is clear in itself.
8.
Commentary on the Discourse on Eating After Sunrise
228. In the eighth, "eating late in the day" means a meal cooked too late in the day. "They do not honour them in proper time" means not cooking rice gruel at the time for rice gruel, sweet-meat at the time for sweet-meat, food at the time for food, because of having let the proper and appropriate time pass, they do not honour them in proper time; they merely give according to their own mind. Thereupon they too, when those come to their own house, do likewise. The deities who receive offerings, who have come through family tradition, only when receiving their gain at the proper and appropriate time, protect and guard without causing oppression. But when receiving at an improper time, thinking "These are disrespectful towards us," they do not provide protection.
Ascetics and brahmins too, thinking "In these people's houses there is no food at mealtime; they give when the midday has stood still," do not perform their duties on auspicious and inauspicious occasions. "They do their work neglectfully" means thinking "We do not get anything in the morning; oppressed by hunger, we are unable to do the work," they give up the work and sit down. "Is not nourishing" means food eaten at an improper time is unable to carry nutritive essence. The bright side should be understood by the reversal of what has been stated.
9.
Commentary on the First Discourse on the Black Snake
229. In the ninth, "timid" means it sleeps a deep sleep with drowsiness. "Fearsome" means in dependence on that, fear arises; therefore it is fearsome. "A betrayer of friends" means it is treacherous to and harms even a friend who gives it beverages and food. The same method applies to womankind as well.
10.
Commentary on the Second Discourse on the Black Snake
230. In the tenth, "having terrible venom" means having harsh venom. "Having a forked tongue" means one whose tongue is split in two. "Having terrible venom" means by the state of having terrible venom. In the remaining two as well, the same method applies.
The Chapter on Long Journeys is third.