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Context: Throughout this transcript, Bhante Vimalaramsi is the speaker unless otherwise indicated.
today is July 9th 2014 we're at the
Dhamma sukha Meditation Center with
Ponte Villa Ramsey today he'll be doing
from the majjhima nikaya number 142 the
exposition of the offering the docking
of the vodka suit thus have I heard on
one occasion the blessed one was living
in the sake and country of CAP till
about 2:00 in the Garuda's park then
maharaj pedro potty go Tommy took a new
pair of cloths and went to the Blessed
One after paying homage to him she sat
down at one side and said to the Blessed
One venerable sir this new pair of
cloths has been spun by me woven by me
especially for the blessed one venerable
sir let the Blessed One accepted from
from me out of compassion when this was
said the Blessed one told her give it to
the entire Sangha
Oh Tommy when you give it to the saga
both I and the Sangha will be honored
the second time in third time she said
to the Blessed One venerable sir
accepted from me out of compassion
the second and the third time the
blessed one told her give it to the
Sangha if it's an individual gift to
somebody you don't get very much merit
but when you give it to the entire
Sangha you get lots and lots and lots of
merit
when you give it to the Sangha both eye
ends and the Sangha will be honored then
the venerable Ananda said to the Blessed
One venerable sir let the Blessed One
accept the new pair of cloths from maha
droupati go Tommy
mahadji party go Tommy has been very
helpful to the Blessed One venerable sir
as his mother's sister she was his nurse
his foster mother the one who gave him
milk she suckled the Blessed One when
his own mother died the Blessed One too
has been very helpful to mohab by
chapatti go Tommy venerable sir it is
owing to the Blessed one that go Tommy
has gone for refuge to the Buddha Dhamma
and the Sangha it is owing to the
Blessed one that Khatami had stains from
killing living beings from taking what
is not given from misconduct and sensual
pleasures from false speech and and from
wine liquor and intoxicants which are
the basis of negligence it is owing to
the Blessed One that go Tommy possesses
unwavering confidence in the Buddha
Dhamma and the Sangha that she possesses
the virtues loved by noble ones it is
owing to the Blessed One that go Tommy
is free from doubt from suffering from
the origin of suffering about the
cessation of suffering
and about the way leading to the
cessation of suffering the Blessed One
has been very helpful to go Tommy
that is so Ananda that is so when one
person owing another has gone for refuge
to the Buddha the Dhamma and the Sangha
I say that it is not easy for the former
to repay later by paying homage to him
rising up for him according him
reverential salutation and polite
services and by providing robes alms
food resting place and medicinal
requisites when one person is owing to
another has come to abstain from killing
living beings from taking what's not
given from misconduct and sexual
pleasures from false speech and from
wine liquor and intoxicants which are
the basis for negative negligence I say
that it is not easy for the former to
repay the latter by paying homage to him
so when you're going to the refuge to
the Buddha Dhamma Sangha and you you are
pure by keeping the precepts
and it's
very sincere even giving a gift is very
small compared to taking these these
other doing these other things there's a
suta and I think it's the end good for
Anu kaya that spells this out much more
plainly and I'll have to check that and
get back to you when one person owing to
another has come to possess unwavering
confidence in the Buddha Dhamma and
Sangha and to possess the virtues loved
by noble ones I say that is not easy for
the former to repay the latter by paying
homage to him when one person owing to
another has become free from doubt about
suffering about the origin of suffering
about the cessation of suffering about
the way leading to the cessation of
suffering I'd say that it is not easy
for the former to repay the latter by
paying homage to him and giving
requisites there are 14 kinds of
personal offerings Ananda one gives a
gift to the target accomplished and
fully awakened this is the first kind of
personal offering one gives a gift to a
pacheco Buddha this is a second kind of
personal offering one gives a gift to an
our hot disciple of the day target ah
this is the third kind of personal
offering one gives a gift to one who has
entered upon the way by real as I
realization of the fruit of our a hot
ship this is the fourth kind of personal
offering one gives a gift to a non
returner this is the fifth kind of
personal offering one gives a gift to
one who has entered upon the way to the
realization of the fruit of non return
this is the sixth kind of offering one
gives a gift to a once returner this is
the seventh kind of offering one gives a
gift to one who has entered upon a way
to the realization of the fruit of once
return this is the eighth kind of
offering you understand all this so far
one who gives a gift to a stream in tour
this is the ninth kind of personal
offering one gives a gift to one who has
entered upon the way to the realization
of the fruit of stream entry this is the
tenth kind of personal offering one
gives a gift to one outside the
dispensation who is free from lust for
sensual pleasures this is the eleventh
kind of personal offering now even if
they're outside the dispensation if
their mind is pure from one pointed
concentration okay that's that's what
we're talking about here one gives a
gift to a virtuous ordinary person this
is the twelfth kind of personal offering
one gives a gift to an immoral ordinary
person this is the thirteenth kind of
personal offering one gives a gift to an
animal this is the fourteen
kind of personal offering why don't you
make up a chart that shows that and by
giving a gift to an animal the offering
may be expected to repay a hundredfold
by giving a gift to an immoral ordinary
person the offering may be expected to
repay a thousandfold even to an immoral
person by giving a gift to a virtuous
ordinary person the offer may be
expected to repay a hundred thousand
fold so sharing or your food with
virtuous people it comes back quite
often by giving a gift to one outside
the dispensation who's free from lust
for personal pleasures or sensual
pleasures the offering may be expected
to repay a hundred thousand times a
hundred thousand fold a hundred thousand
times a hundred thousand is what
so a hundred thousand times a hundred
thousand you got to add six zeros
well now that's its trillion or
quadrillion by giving a gift to those
who has entered upon the way to the
realization of the fruit of stream entry
the offering may expected to repay
incalculably immeasurably what then
should be said of giving an offering to
a regular stream enterer
who just has the path what should be
said of giving a gift to those who have
entered upon the way of the realization
of the fruit the once return and once
returned or with the fruit to one who
has entered upon the way to the
realization of the fruit of non returned
or to a non returner to one has entered
upon the way to the realization of the
fruit of our hot ship or to an irregular
our hot with with his just the path to
up to check a Buddha what should be said
about giving a gift to the tatata
accomplished and fully awakened there
are seven kinds of offering made to the
Sangha Ananda one gives a gift to the
song of both monks and bhikkhunis headed
by the Buddha this is the first kind of
offering made to the Sangha and that's
what I was taught in Burma
by far so the the monk that you're
giving it to is just the representative
of the Sangha there's a story about this
one monk that was not a very good monk
and he was always asking for things and
this man that was very pious came up and
he offered food to that monk on an
occasion when there was a lot of people
and a lot of monks and he was very very
respectful and in his mind he didn't see
the individual he saw the Buddha at the
head of both sango's and then after the
meal this monk came around because he
was impressed by the piety of that
person and asked to use something and
the men put it on the ground and kicked
it to him which is very high insult and
he asked the man why why did you
you were so pious giving me the food why
are you doing this and he said I was
giving it to the entire Sango when I was
giving you the food but this is a
personal gift
one gives the gift to a Sangha of both
the monks and bhikkhunis after the
tataka has has attained finally Bona
this is a second kind of offering made
to the Sangha one gives a gift to the
song of bhikkhus and this is the third
kind of offering made to the Sangha one
gives a gift to a Sangha of bhikkhunis
this is the fourth kind of gift offering
made to the Sangha one gives the gift
saying appoint so many monks and monks
and bhikkhunis for for me from the
Sangha it means you say I want to give
this gift to 50 monks and 50 bhikkhunis
it's not to the entire sound guys it's
just to those those there are hundred
people okay one gives a gift saying
appoint so many bhikkhus for me from the
Sangha this is a six kind of offering
made to the Sangha one gives a gift
saying appoint so many bhikkhunis for me
from the Sangha this is a seventh kind
of offering made to the Sangha in future
times Ananda there will be members of
the clan who are yellow necks immoral of
evil character people who will give gift
to those immoral person for the sake of
the Sangha even then I say an offering
is made to the song
of incalculable immeasurable and I say
that in no way is a gift to a person
individually ever more fruitful than
offering me to the Sangha
there are ananda four kinds of
purification of offerings what for
there is the offering that is purified
by the giver not by the receiver the
receiver doesn't understand what you're
doing like that monk there is the
offering that is purified by the
receiver but not the giver an immoral
person gives something to someone that's
moral and when you're receiving the gift
I was taught in Burma that I should
always be focusing on loving-kindness
and how is the offering purified by the
giver not by the receiver here the giver
is virtuous of good character and the
receiver is immoral of evil character
thus the offering of purified by the
giver not by the receiver and how is the
offering purified by the receiver not by
the giver here the giver is immoral of
evil character and the receiver is
virtuous of good character this is the
offer this thus the offering is purified
by the receiver not by the giver and how
is the offering purified neither by the
giver nor by the receiver here the giver
is immoral of evil character and the
receiver is immoral and of evil
character thus the offering is purified
neither by the give giver nor the
receiver and how is the offering
purified by both the giver and by the
receiver here the giver is virtuous of
good character and receiver is virtuous
of good character
thus the offering is purified by both
the giver and by the receiver these are
the four kinds of purification of
offerings
it depends it depends on the giver if
the giver is giving with a pure mind
it's purified monks aren't supposed to
talk touch of Donna box but there are
laymen around the do and can and they
can put that in a fund just for the
Sangha or they can use that fund for
extra food for the Sangha or lodging or
medicine unless they specify that they
want you to have the you personally to
have this Donna and use it in a way that
is helpful your copy is supposed to take
care of that
and get whatever is needed at the time
there have been times when the copier
starts thinking that that money that's
offered is theirs and there's a special
kind of it's almost like a ritual of the
monk stands in front of the copier
he doesn't mention anything about what's
what's needed but the the copy does
understand that there's something wrong
and we'll ask what is the problem and
then the monk can reply and if they
don't ask then you do it a second time
and a third time up to six times
now this is according to Vania and if if
that copy still doesn't do what what's
needed to be done then the the monk will
go to the head monk and tell about the
problem and the head monk will get
another copy to approach them and tell
them you're not fulfilling your your
duties as an attendant for this monk and
they can ignore that or not that after
after six times of doing it the monk
can't it doesn't do any more outside of
go to the head monk and the head monk
gets an attendant to go approach and try
to talk that person into giving up
whatever they're holding for that book
and if they give it up then that
attendant will will find another
attendant to help the month that was
originally had the gift and that's real
easy to do in countries that are
Buddhist it's relatively difficult doing
it in non Buddhist countries because
attendants don't really understand
I was taught for two years by Lucille
Ananda on how to be in a tendon and he
was always coming up with new stuff that
I'd never heard before he pointed a
flower and he'd say make that allowable
and what he wanted me to do was cut the
flower and then give it to him so
sometimes I'll say make it allowable and
that that's what the Nepali is
you have to say copy Avante as you're
giving the whatever it happens to be
right
yeah
rev allowable yeah
that's what that's what copier really
means a person that makes it allowable
but being in this country
sometimes a copy is available and
sometimes they're not so we wind up
having to carry some some form of money
around just so that we can do the things
we need to do that is what the Blessed
One said when the sublime one had said
that the teacher said further when
virtue is a virtuous person to an
immoral person gives with trusting heart
a gift righteously obtained placing
faith in the fruit of that action is
great the givers virtue purifies the
offering when an immoral person - a
virtuous person gives with untrusting
heart a gift unrighteously obtained nor
places faith in the fruit of that action
is great the receiver receivers virtue
purifies the offering when an immoral
person - an immoral person gives with
untrusting heart a gift unrighteously
obtained nor places faith in the fruit
of the action is that the fruit of the
action is great
neither virtues purifies the offering
when a virtuous person - a virtuous
person gives with trusting heart a gift
righteous righteously obtained placing
faith in the fruit of the action is
great that gift I say will come to full
fruition when a passionless person - a
passionless person gives with trusting
heart a gift righteously obtained
placing faith that the fruit of the
action is great the gift I say is the
best of the worldly gifts
so be virtuous and give to a virtuous
person knowing that that gift will come
back at some point
can't put a timescale on it
unfortunately but there there was a
layman that he donated a lot
and for one reason or another he and he
was donating continually due to the
Sangha entire Sangha and for one reason
or another he was broke and he made a
determination that I have given so much
to the Sangha now it's time for that to
come back a little bit anyone the
lottery
it wasn't a big lottery it was like five
or ten thousand ringgit it was a huge
amount of money but it was it was enough
for him to continue on he later became a
monk and I used to be one of his
favorite stories
so the whole idea of practicing your
generosity by being a virtuous person
even when you give to somebody that is
really rough around the edges that will
come back to you many hundreds of
thousands of times
and in many different ways it's not
always monetarily it comes back as
prosperity you have when you're when
you're known as a generous person people
like you because you're generous because
you can help other people and they like
that as an example so there's another
way of explaining the imaging of
prosperity and prosperity as it comes in
all different forms it comes in the form
of meeting the right person at the right
time that you both can benefit from that
meeting that sort of thing so virtue is
is or prosperity is is as big a word as
a lot of pali words like dhamma many
things unfortunately in this culture
most people think prosperity means money
but when you pay attention to what
you're doing and you make a a plan to do
something and if you run into roadblocks
and you keep having to overcome these
problems and keeps happening after two
or three times your prosperity is
telling you not to continue but when you
make a plan to do something and it's
like the whole universe is there saying
yeah and everything just happens by
itself more or less
you know that's the right path that you
need to be taking and that comes from
the merit of giving too much people are
tied up in the idea of Donna means you
have to give you have to pay me to
support me and it's really sad looking
at some of these people that write come
to my website the first thing they do is
ask you for money well you have to give
before you can get and what you do is
you give the Dhamma and Dhamma takes
care of you you don't have to worry
about things so the more you put trust
in that and keep practicing your
generosity and body speech and mind then
you become it becomes of great benefit
that's one of the things that says a lot
about keeping your your virtue and suit
to number 46 it talks about keeping your
your precepts very well and when you do
it is a great benefit for you that means
to prosper very well
so that's the end of the suta it's a
short one
today is July 9th 2014 we're at the
Dhamma sukha Meditation Center with
Ponte Villa Ramsey today he'll be doing
from the majjhima nikaya number 142 the
exposition of the offering the docking
of the vodka suit thus have I heard on
one occasion the blessed one was living
in the sake and country of CAP till
about 2:00 in the Garuda's park then
maharaj pedro potty go Tommy took a new
pair of cloths and went to the Blessed
One after paying homage to him she sat
down at one side and said to the Blessed
One venerable sir this new pair of
cloths has been spun by me woven by me
especially for the blessed one venerable
sir let the Blessed One accepted from
from me out of compassion when this was
said the Blessed one told her give it to
the entire Sangha
Oh Tommy when you give it to the saga
both I and the Sangha will be honored
the second time in third time she said
to the Blessed One venerable sir
accepted from me out of compassion
the second and the third time the
blessed one told her give it to the
Sangha if it's an individual gift to
somebody you don't get very much merit
but when you give it to the entire
Sangha you get lots and lots and lots of
merit
when you give it to the Sangha both eye
ends and the Sangha will be honored then
the venerable Ananda said to the Blessed
One venerable sir let the Blessed One
accept the new pair of cloths from maha
droupati go Tommy
mahadji party go Tommy has been very
helpful to the Blessed One venerable sir
as his mother's sister she was his nurse
his foster mother the one who gave him
milk she suckled the Blessed One when
his own mother died the Blessed One too
has been very helpful to mohab by
chapatti go Tommy venerable sir it is
owing to the Blessed one that go Tommy
has gone for refuge to the Buddha Dhamma
and the Sangha it is owing to the
Blessed one that Khatami had stains from
killing living beings from taking what
is not given from misconduct and sensual
pleasures from false speech and and from
wine liquor and intoxicants which are
the basis of negligence it is owing to
the Blessed One that go Tommy possesses
unwavering confidence in the Buddha
Dhamma and the Sangha that she possesses
the virtues loved by noble ones it is
owing to the Blessed One that go Tommy
is free from doubt from suffering from
the origin of suffering about the
cessation of suffering
and about the way leading to the
cessation of suffering the Blessed One
has been very helpful to go Tommy
that is so Ananda that is so when one
person owing another has gone for refuge
to the Buddha the Dhamma and the Sangha
I say that it is not easy for the former
to repay later by paying homage to him
rising up for him according him
reverential salutation and polite
services and by providing robes alms
food resting place and medicinal
requisites when one person is owing to
another has come to abstain from killing
living beings from taking what's not
given from misconduct and sexual
pleasures from false speech and from
wine liquor and intoxicants which are
the basis for negative negligence I say
that it is not easy for the former to
repay the latter by paying homage to him
so when you're going to the refuge to
the Buddha Dhamma Sangha and you you are
pure by keeping the precepts
and it's
very sincere even giving a gift is very
small compared to taking these these
other doing these other things there's a
suta and I think it's the end good for
Anu kaya that spells this out much more
plainly and I'll have to check that and
get back to you when one person owing to
another has come to possess unwavering
confidence in the Buddha Dhamma and
Sangha and to possess the virtues loved
by noble ones I say that is not easy for
the former to repay the latter by paying
homage to him when one person owing to
another has become free from doubt about
suffering about the origin of suffering
about the cessation of suffering about
the way leading to the cessation of
suffering I'd say that it is not easy
for the former to repay the latter by
paying homage to him and giving
requisites there are 14 kinds of
personal offerings Ananda one gives a
gift to the target accomplished and
fully awakened this is the first kind of
personal offering one gives a gift to a
pacheco Buddha this is a second kind of
personal offering one gives a gift to an
our hot disciple of the day target ah
this is the third kind of personal
offering one gives a gift to one who has
entered upon the way by real as I
realization of the fruit of our a hot
ship this is the fourth kind of personal
offering one gives a gift to a non
returner this is the fifth kind of
personal offering one gives a gift to
one who has entered upon the way to the
realization of the fruit of non return
this is the sixth kind of offering one
gives a gift to a once returner this is
the seventh kind of offering one gives a
gift to one who has entered upon a way
to the realization of the fruit of once
return this is the eighth kind of
offering you understand all this so far
one who gives a gift to a stream in tour
this is the ninth kind of personal
offering one gives a gift to one who has
entered upon the way to the realization
of the fruit of stream entry this is the
tenth kind of personal offering one
gives a gift to one outside the
dispensation who is free from lust for
sensual pleasures this is the eleventh
kind of personal offering now even if
they're outside the dispensation if
their mind is pure from one pointed
concentration okay that's that's what
we're talking about here one gives a
gift to a virtuous ordinary person this
is the twelfth kind of personal offering
one gives a gift to an immoral ordinary
person this is the thirteenth kind of
personal offering one gives a gift to an
animal this is the fourteen
kind of personal offering why don't you
make up a chart that shows that and by
giving a gift to an animal the offering
may be expected to repay a hundredfold
by giving a gift to an immoral ordinary
person the offering may be expected to
repay a thousandfold even to an immoral
person by giving a gift to a virtuous
ordinary person the offer may be
expected to repay a hundred thousand
fold so sharing or your food with
virtuous people it comes back quite
often by giving a gift to one outside
the dispensation who's free from lust
for personal pleasures or sensual
pleasures the offering may be expected
to repay a hundred thousand times a
hundred thousand fold a hundred thousand
times a hundred thousand is what
so a hundred thousand times a hundred
thousand you got to add six zeros
well now that's its trillion or
quadrillion by giving a gift to those
who has entered upon the way to the
realization of the fruit of stream entry
the offering may expected to repay
incalculably immeasurably what then
should be said of giving an offering to
a regular stream enterer
who just has the path what should be
said of giving a gift to those who have
entered upon the way of the realization
of the fruit the once return and once
returned or with the fruit to one who
has entered upon the way to the
realization of the fruit of non returned
or to a non returner to one has entered
upon the way to the realization of the
fruit of our hot ship or to an irregular
our hot with with his just the path to
up to check a Buddha what should be said
about giving a gift to the tatata
accomplished and fully awakened there
are seven kinds of offering made to the
Sangha Ananda one gives a gift to the
song of both monks and bhikkhunis headed
by the Buddha this is the first kind of
offering made to the Sangha and that's
what I was taught in Burma
by far so the the monk that you're
giving it to is just the representative
of the Sangha there's a story about this
one monk that was not a very good monk
and he was always asking for things and
this man that was very pious came up and
he offered food to that monk on an
occasion when there was a lot of people
and a lot of monks and he was very very
respectful and in his mind he didn't see
the individual he saw the Buddha at the
head of both sango's and then after the
meal this monk came around because he
was impressed by the piety of that
person and asked to use something and
the men put it on the ground and kicked
it to him which is very high insult and
he asked the man why why did you
you were so pious giving me the food why
are you doing this and he said I was
giving it to the entire Sango when I was
giving you the food but this is a
personal gift
one gives the gift to a Sangha of both
the monks and bhikkhunis after the
tataka has has attained finally Bona
this is a second kind of offering made
to the Sangha one gives a gift to the
song of bhikkhus and this is the third
kind of offering made to the Sangha one
gives a gift to a Sangha of bhikkhunis
this is the fourth kind of gift offering
made to the Sangha one gives the gift
saying appoint so many monks and monks
and bhikkhunis for for me from the
Sangha it means you say I want to give
this gift to 50 monks and 50 bhikkhunis
it's not to the entire sound guys it's
just to those those there are hundred
people okay one gives a gift saying
appoint so many bhikkhus for me from the
Sangha this is a six kind of offering
made to the Sangha one gives a gift
saying appoint so many bhikkhunis for me
from the Sangha this is a seventh kind
of offering made to the Sangha in future
times Ananda there will be members of
the clan who are yellow necks immoral of
evil character people who will give gift
to those immoral person for the sake of
the Sangha even then I say an offering
is made to the song
of incalculable immeasurable and I say
that in no way is a gift to a person
individually ever more fruitful than
offering me to the Sangha
there are ananda four kinds of
purification of offerings what for
there is the offering that is purified
by the giver not by the receiver the
receiver doesn't understand what you're
doing like that monk there is the
offering that is purified by the
receiver but not the giver an immoral
person gives something to someone that's
moral and when you're receiving the gift
I was taught in Burma that I should
always be focusing on loving-kindness
and how is the offering purified by the
giver not by the receiver here the giver
is virtuous of good character and the
receiver is immoral of evil character
thus the offering of purified by the
giver not by the receiver and how is the
offering purified by the receiver not by
the giver here the giver is immoral of
evil character and the receiver is
virtuous of good character this is the
offer this thus the offering is purified
by the receiver not by the giver and how
is the offering purified neither by the
giver nor by the receiver here the giver
is immoral of evil character and the
receiver is immoral and of evil
character thus the offering is purified
neither by the give giver nor the
receiver and how is the offering
purified by both the giver and by the
receiver here the giver is virtuous of
good character and receiver is virtuous
of good character
thus the offering is purified by both
the giver and by the receiver these are
the four kinds of purification of
offerings
it depends it depends on the giver if
the giver is giving with a pure mind
it's purified monks aren't supposed to
talk touch of Donna box but there are
laymen around the do and can and they
can put that in a fund just for the
Sangha or they can use that fund for
extra food for the Sangha or lodging or
medicine unless they specify that they
want you to have the you personally to
have this Donna and use it in a way that
is helpful your copy is supposed to take
care of that
and get whatever is needed at the time
there have been times when the copier
starts thinking that that money that's
offered is theirs and there's a special
kind of it's almost like a ritual of the
monk stands in front of the copier
he doesn't mention anything about what's
what's needed but the the copy does
understand that there's something wrong
and we'll ask what is the problem and
then the monk can reply and if they
don't ask then you do it a second time
and a third time up to six times
now this is according to Vania and if if
that copy still doesn't do what what's
needed to be done then the the monk will
go to the head monk and tell about the
problem and the head monk will get
another copy to approach them and tell
them you're not fulfilling your your
duties as an attendant for this monk and
they can ignore that or not that after
after six times of doing it the monk
can't it doesn't do any more outside of
go to the head monk and the head monk
gets an attendant to go approach and try
to talk that person into giving up
whatever they're holding for that book
and if they give it up then that
attendant will will find another
attendant to help the month that was
originally had the gift and that's real
easy to do in countries that are
Buddhist it's relatively difficult doing
it in non Buddhist countries because
attendants don't really understand
I was taught for two years by Lucille
Ananda on how to be in a tendon and he
was always coming up with new stuff that
I'd never heard before he pointed a
flower and he'd say make that allowable
and what he wanted me to do was cut the
flower and then give it to him so
sometimes I'll say make it allowable and
that that's what the Nepali is
you have to say copy Avante as you're
giving the whatever it happens to be
right
yeah
rev allowable yeah
that's what that's what copier really
means a person that makes it allowable
but being in this country
sometimes a copy is available and
sometimes they're not so we wind up
having to carry some some form of money
around just so that we can do the things
we need to do that is what the Blessed
One said when the sublime one had said
that the teacher said further when
virtue is a virtuous person to an
immoral person gives with trusting heart
a gift righteously obtained placing
faith in the fruit of that action is
great the givers virtue purifies the
offering when an immoral person - a
virtuous person gives with untrusting
heart a gift unrighteously obtained nor
places faith in the fruit of that action
is great the receiver receivers virtue
purifies the offering when an immoral
person - an immoral person gives with
untrusting heart a gift unrighteously
obtained nor places faith in the fruit
of the action is that the fruit of the
action is great
neither virtues purifies the offering
when a virtuous person - a virtuous
person gives with trusting heart a gift
righteous righteously obtained placing
faith in the fruit of the action is
great that gift I say will come to full
fruition when a passionless person - a
passionless person gives with trusting
heart a gift righteously obtained
placing faith that the fruit of the
action is great the gift I say is the
best of the worldly gifts
so be virtuous and give to a virtuous
person knowing that that gift will come
back at some point
can't put a timescale on it
unfortunately but there there was a
layman that he donated a lot
and for one reason or another he and he
was donating continually due to the
Sangha entire Sangha and for one reason
or another he was broke and he made a
determination that I have given so much
to the Sangha now it's time for that to
come back a little bit anyone the
lottery
it wasn't a big lottery it was like five
or ten thousand ringgit it was a huge
amount of money but it was it was enough
for him to continue on he later became a
monk and I used to be one of his
favorite stories
so the whole idea of practicing your
generosity by being a virtuous person
even when you give to somebody that is
really rough around the edges that will
come back to you many hundreds of
thousands of times
and in many different ways it's not
always monetarily it comes back as
prosperity you have when you're when
you're known as a generous person people
like you because you're generous because
you can help other people and they like
that as an example so there's another
way of explaining the imaging of
prosperity and prosperity as it comes in
all different forms it comes in the form
of meeting the right person at the right
time that you both can benefit from that
meeting that sort of thing so virtue is
is or prosperity is is as big a word as
a lot of pali words like dhamma many
things unfortunately in this culture
most people think prosperity means money
but when you pay attention to what
you're doing and you make a a plan to do
something and if you run into roadblocks
and you keep having to overcome these
problems and keeps happening after two
or three times your prosperity is
telling you not to continue but when you
make a plan to do something and it's
like the whole universe is there saying
yeah and everything just happens by
itself more or less
you know that's the right path that you
need to be taking and that comes from
the merit of giving too much people are
tied up in the idea of Donna means you
have to give you have to pay me to
support me and it's really sad looking
at some of these people that write come
to my website the first thing they do is
ask you for money well you have to give
before you can get and what you do is
you give the Dhamma and Dhamma takes
care of you you don't have to worry
about things so the more you put trust
in that and keep practicing your
generosity and body speech and mind then
you become it becomes of great benefit
that's one of the things that says a lot
about keeping your your virtue and suit
to number 46 it talks about keeping your
your precepts very well and when you do
it is a great benefit for you that means
to prosper very well
so that's the end of the suta it's a
short one