70. Sabbath
35.1You shouldn’t kill living creatures, or steal, 35.2or lie, or drink alcohol. 35.3Be celibate, refraining from sex, 35.4and don’t eat at night, the wrong time.
36.1Not wearing garlands or applying fragrance, 36.2you should sleep on a low bed, or a mat on the ground. 36.3This is the eight-factored sabbath, they say, 36.4explained by the Buddha, who has gone to suffering’s end.
37.1The moon and sun are both fair to see, 37.2radiating as far as they revolve. 37.3Those shining ones in the sky light up the quarters, 37.4dispelling the darkness as they traverse the heavens.
38.1All of the wealth that’s found in this realm— 38.2pearls, gems, fine beryl too, 38.3horn-gold or mountain gold, 38.4or natural gold dug up by marmots—
39.1they’re not worth a sixteenth part 39.2of the sabbath with its eight factors, 39.3as all the constellations of stars can’t equal the light of the moon.
40.1So an ethical woman or man, 40.2who has observed the eight-factored sabbath, 40.3having made merit whose outcome is happiness, 40.4blameless, they go to a heavenly place.”