“May you live long, venerable sir!” Because of the noise, the teaching was interrupted. The Buddha said to the monks: “If you say, ‘May you live long!’ to one who sneezes, will they live or die because of that?” “You shouldn’t say, ‘May you live long!’ to one who sneezes. If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.” At that time when monks sneezed, people said, “May you live long, venerable!” Being afraid of wrongdoing, the monks did not respond. People complained and criticized them, “How can the Sakyan monastics not respond when spoken to like this?”