19. What is not to be given away At one time in a village monastery not far from Sāvatthī the resident monks were fed up with assigning dwellings to monks who were coming and going. They considered this and thought, “Well, let’s give all the dwellings belonging to the Sangha to one of us. We’ll then use what belongs to him.” And they did just that. When newly-arrived monks said to them, “Please assign us a dwelling,” they replied, “There aren’t any dwellings belonging to the Sangha. We’ve given them to one monk.”