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Thus have I heard:
On one occasion the Blessed One was living at Savatthi in Jeta’s Grove. There he addressed the monks: "monks, live lives filled with virtue, model your behavior upon the Patimokkha (Monastic code of discipline), and you will be perfect in conduct and filled with fear at the slightest fault. Therefore, train your mind by following the (Monastic) Precepts.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I be loved and befriended by my companions in the holy life, may I be respected and honored by them.’ If this is so, let him live by the Precepts, achieve serenity of mind, practice daily to develop insight and dwell in seclusion—this is the law by which he should live.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I acquire sufficient robes, alms-food, a clean, decent resting place, and even medical supplies when necessary,’ let him live by the law.
If a monk should wish: ’may the services of those who grant to me robes, alms-food, a resting place and even medicinal supplies bring to them great merit and benefit’ then let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may my family, those that have died, profit from my behavior. May those of my family who still live, model themselves on my behavior, thereby earning vast merit and experiencing great benefit,’ then let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I conquer unhappiness as well as delight, and may these emotions not conquer me,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I defeat fear and dismay, and may not fear and dismay conquer me,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I obtain the four mental absorptions that make-up the higher mind without great difficulty, so that I might dwell peacefully in the now,’ let him live by this law.
‘If a monk should wish: ‘may I attain those liberations that bring peace and lose all desire for material objects,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I destroy the three chains (1.the view of self, 2. doubts, 3. sensual desire and ill-will) that bind me to suffering and become a stream-enterer,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I, having destroyed these three chains and other mental impurities, attain to the stage of once-returner,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I attain re-birth in the Pure Land and there attain final Nirvana,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I exercise all super-normal powers to aid my teaching of other beings,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I develop the purified ear that allows me to hear both human and divine sounds,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I comprehend the minds of all the beings I encounter, may I recognize those whose minds are pure as well as impure,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I recall my numberless past lives,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I develop the pure eye that allows me to see and understand how beings are born and pass on according to their actions,’ let him live by this law.
If a monk should wish: ‘may I, in this present moment, enter and abide in the freedom that comes from the destruction of all impurities,’ let him live by this law.
That is what the Blessed One said and the monks were satisfied and took great pleasure in the Blessed One’s words.