The Related Suttas Collection 11.15

Chapter Two

Delightful

Near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove.

And then Sakka, lord of gods, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and said to him, “Sir, what is a delightful place?”

“Shrines in parks and forests, well-made lotus ponds, are not worth a sixteenth part of a delightful human being.

Whether in village or wilderness, in a valley or the uplands, wherever the perfected ones live is a delightful place.”