I strongly recommend everyone memorise this list and make strenuous efforts to put the list into practice. This will be for your benefit now and for a long time into the future.
- Daana - giving generously and freely to worthy recipients such as virtuous monastics
- Siila - ethical conduct; keeping at least five precepts every day and regularly observing
8 precepts on Uposatha days (about once a week)
- Bhavanaa - mental development through meditation either vipassana-insight meditation or samatha-concentration meditation
- Apacaayana - reverence and respect for elders, parents, teachers, monastics, officials and so forth; recognising the importance of their senior or guiding role
- Veyaavacca - service for promoting the Dhamma, assisting others to do meritorious deeds
- Patidaana - sharing merit with others while undertaking meritorious deeds oneself
- Pattaanumodana - rejoicing in others' meritorious deeds; congratulating them and being happy with them during their meritorious conduct
- Dhammasavana - hearing the Dhamma or reading the Dhamma
- Dhammadesanaa - teaching the Dhamma either by speech or writing
- Ditthijukamavasena - straightening out one's views, studying Dhamma to be sure that one understands the Dhamma correctly (also sometimes spelled: ditth'uju-kamma)
2 comments:
Hi, thanks for sharing. By the way, the pali words for no 8 should be Dhammadesana and no 9 dhammasavana
Hi SV, are you saying I should swap 8 & 9 around? Maybe you are right. Can you let me know your source?
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