The big merit from offering the meals to the monks and novices

If you love to make merit, please read it and persuade your beloved ones to do with you. This kind of merit is easy to do...only you have the heart of a giver!

Abstaining from Unwholesomeness # 1

“Before we dress up beautifully, we need to shower off all the dirt. So as before we purify the mind for a higher virtue, we need to abstain from all kinds of unwholesomeness

The Noble Eightfold Path on the Mundane Level # 4

Right Action is the practice of abstaining from killing, stealing and adultery

Not Leaving One’s Work Undone

The nature of dung on the tail of a pig is to accumulate with the passing of the days, making it increasingly difficult for the pig to find happiness in its daily life

The Noble Truth of Suffering : 1. Suffering as a result of Birth [jati dukkha]

The Lord Buddha taught that suffering as a result of birth is ‘built in’ suffering for every living being conceived in the realms of the Cycle of Existence

Code of Good Conduct #2

Precepts refer to the regularity and normality of what humans should do. They are the basic disciplines in the Dhamma and distinguish humans from animals

The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Abstaining from Unwholesomeness (3)

The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Sixth Group of Blessings. Blessing Nineteen :- Abstaining from Unwholesomeness.

The ceremony of pouring water to dedicate merit to the dead people

An example effect of the ceremony of pouring water to dedicate merit to the dead people.

The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Blameless Work (4)

The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Fifth Group of Blessings. Blessing Eighteen :- Blameless Work.

Commentorial Metaphors: Indulgence in sensual pleasures:

A pig content to wallow in dung: Indulging in sensual pleasures is rather like a pig, which spends all its life wallowing in the warm mud and dung of its pigsty because it thinks that this is the ultimate happiness.