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to everybody in his community. Those who abstain from intoxicants will be free the world from such misery and distress. After understanding the benefits of observing the Five Precepts, we can carry on to study in a similar manner the blessings of right livelihood. We have found out so far that the observance of Five Precepts will save the world from misery and anxiety. Now we will fully realize that morality is better than generosity. So, each one should be mindful to observe the Five Precepts. May all readers be able to observe the Five Precepts and propagate loving-kindness and compassion to all sentient beings. 6.7 keeping Sabbath - Uposatha Síla By keeping Sabbath, the Eight Precepts, on Sabbath days you also observe non-indulgence in sex, refrain from having food after midday etc. in addition to the basic Five Precepts. The additional three prefects are meant to purify one's mind; the basic five prevent others from suffering.. Those who observe eight precepts should continue to meditate on the virtues of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha or on the virtues of your own Charity and Morality. Consequently they will find that there is less and less greed, anger, delusion, conceits other defilements arising from them. Their minds become purer and nobler day by day. Observance of the Eight Precepts supplemented with meditation (bhávaná) is much meritorious than observance of ordinary Five Precepts. 6.8. Meditation – (Bhávaná) a. Loving kindness meditation - Bhávaná means development or cultivation of mind. It is a form of work of the mind, which purifies your mind. When you earnestly wish for the welfare of all beings and emanate loving-kindness on them, it is practice of mettá meditation - bhávaná. First you cultivate mettá in your mind and then try it so that your whole self becomes suffused with mettá. b. Compassion Meditation - When loving kindness flourish in your mind, you feel compassion for helpless and poor beings. Consequently you emanate compassionate thoughts to the destitute. This is called compassion meditation - karuna bhávaná. c. Sympathetic joy meditation -You now develop a strong urge to alleviate the sufferings of the poor and miserable. Since there flourish both loving-kindness and compassion in your heart you begin to feel sympathetic joy - (Mudita) towards the rich. You feel genuine, altruistic joy for them. This is meditation on sympathetic joy - Mudita bhávaná. The three types of bhávaná can be developed by everyone with a virtuous mind even in everyday life. 6.9 Meditation on Recollection of Buddha's Virtues - Buddhanussati Kammatthana About Recollection of Buddha's Virtues, you need to concentrate on the three attributes: - Page 56 A Gift of Dhamma Maung Paw, California
a. Buddha's meritorious deed and perfections in his past existences, which serves as the cause of Enlightenment. b. The result of Buddha's past merit. c. The infinite benevolence the Buddha brings to all sentient beings. 6.9.a . Buddha’s meritorious deeds - The Cause The cause means the fulfillment of perfections in countless past lives. He performed meritorious deeds and practiced parami perfections with the greatest vigor. His noble deeds throughout the cycle of samsara are not for himself, but for the deliverance of all living beings from suffering in the samsara. Let us, for example, recall the performance of Charity parami of King Vessantara, the Bodhisattva. Example - Most people give charity for becoming famous as a great donor. They even feel they are benefactors of the recipients who should be grateful to them and show their gratitude if possible. They hope for rebirth in luxurious abodes. They wish for attainment of Nibbána only perfunctorily. As for King Vessantara, he asked his mother when he was only days old to give him something to donate by presenting his open alms to his mother. As an infant he had no selfish purpose at all. He only has an ardent desire to give charity in conformity with his latent habit - vasana. Accordingly he gave away his jewelry and costumes to his friends. When be became king he had many charity pandals built and gave feast daily. His daily donations amounted to hundreds of thousands of money. He enjoyed the bliss of watching people being well fed and well clothed. He too, he had no selfish desire for fame or good-rebirth. His only purpose was to help others. He believed that the duty of the rich was to look after the poor. His desire to save the destitute was intense. He gave away the Royal White Elephant, causing tumultuous protests from the citizens. However, Vessantara was heedless of everything else but his wish to attain Omniscience, Sabbannuta Nana. One might argue that this aim is for his personal gain. However, attainment of Omniscience meant more arduous work for him as he would have to travel thousands of miles under various conditions to teach his Dhamma. Therefore, to achieve Omniscience is to serve the suffering humanity not to achieve his personal gain. In his final stage of fulfilling parami as King Vessantara, he gave away his son, daughter, and his queen. This is ample evidence of his selflessness and goodwill for all beings. Let us elaborate. Having a worthy wife and children is the zenith of pleasures in the luxurious abodes of human and Devas. Without a wife and children even the Universal Monarch will not find happiness at all. However, the Bodhisattva King Vessantara renounced the treasures of the heart, his beloved children and wife, and gave them away. This unparalleled charity was surely not for fame or wealth, but for the sake of Omniscience by which he could free living beings from suffering. With such noble and selfless aim, the Bodhisattva sacrificed his own life for the sake of morality Page 57 A Gift of Dhamma Maung Paw, California
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