Buddha Teaching

As for the consequences of Patipuggaladana, one will receive that giving alms to animals generates a hundred outcomes, and giving alms to the ordinary man who is immoral generates a thousand outcomes. Giving alms to the ordinary man who is moral generates a hundred thousand outcomes, giving alms to the recluse outside Buddhism who is far from sensuality generates a hundred thousand billion outcomes. Giving alms to one who is practicing to realize the fruition of stream-winning generates inner-able, immeasurable outcomes, moreover, all the other higher individuals such as the stream-winner and the rest, are higher in virtue than one another according to the order, there will be obviously more and more outcomes than one another in accordance with the order of virtues of those individuals. ...

The Dakkhineyyabuggala is one who is worthy of Dakkhina -gifts that one believes in cause and effect and then devotes. When Buddhists understand clearly the reason and result that such an action is the cause bringing in delight, such an action is the cause bringing in woe; then they will wish to complete only the cause of gladness. Concerning the cause of gladness, in Buddhism, the Lord Buddha decreed that "sukkho puññassa uccayo the act of accumulating merit is the cause of gladness." To collect merit, Buddhists must discern what merit and what causes of merit are, only then they can complete that merit. The word "merit" here means that quality always clarifies the mind, that quality is called "merit". Further explanation is that the human mind is always clear depending on the power...

The word "Kamma" here refers to the law of cause and effect or the law of reason and result of Buddhism and the word "Mangala" here refers to superstition as described above. In the law of cause and effect, the Exalted one taught by comparing cause and effect to seeds of plants as follows: "yadisam vappate bijam tādisam labhate phalam kalyanakārī kalyanam papakārī ca papakam. One sow what species of seeds always reaps such species of crops, one who habitually does good always gains good results, one who routinely does bad always gains bad results." The Lord Buddha taught this teaching, his goal is to make beings believe what the Law of Kamma is, which always produces results in accordance with what has been done by beings. Seed of rice such as glutinous rice and the like that is sown...

In Mangalatthadipani, there are comments about the chaos that arose from people seeking blessing and then being confounded by believing in three men who had proclaimed that seeing is a blessing, sharing is a blessing, and a mixture of smelling, tasting, touching is a blessing. Some of them followed the first man who said that seeing is a blessing, some Followed the second man who said that hearing is a blessing, and some followed the third man that said that a mixture of smelling, tasting, and touching is a blessing. Different adherence was the cause of unrest not only in this human world but also up to the divine, Mara, and Brahma worlds. That unrest continued for twelve years. After the Lord Buddha expounded the thirty-eight sublime blessings in the discourse of blessings, the unrest app...

The word "Sila" (morality) is a Pali word which means normal on the authority of holding firmly -a state of not being scattered to the four winds of bodily actions, verbal actions, and mental actions and on the authority of approaching to support -to keep all kinds of wholesome actions without letting vanish. Sila has Lakkhanãdicatukka as the following: Silanalakkhanam: comprising of regularity as its characteristic. Dussilyaviddhamsanarasam: comprising of the act of wiping out a state of being immoral as its function. Soceyyapaccuppatthanam: comprising of cleanliness as its exact aura. Hirottappapadatthanum: comprising moral shame and moral dread as its closest cause. In the name of Buddhists, we must be moral. The moral precepts for lay Buddhist disciples are Niccasil...

1. Belief in Kamma: "Kamma" is Pali language translated as volitional action or what is done volitionally. Karmas are of two kinds, i.e. Kusalakamma translated as wholesome volitional action and Akusalakamma translated as unwholesome volitional action. Kusalakammas are alms-giving, adherence to moral principles, contemplation, and doing lots of other good deeds which are the causes of happiness and prosperity in this world and the next world. Akusalakammas are the commitment of evil deeds through bodily actions such as killing creatures, stealing others' properties, and doing something immorally (having sexual relations) with others' spouses or daughters; through verbal actions such as telling lies, slandering, harsh speech or cursing and other frivolous speech; and through...

In Anguttaranikaya Pañcakanipata Chatthamabhaga right in Catutthapannāsaka Upasakavagga of the discourse scripture (Khmer scripture volume 45), the Buddha stated that: "Pañcahi bhikkhave dhammehi sammannãgato upasako upasakaratanañca hoti upasakapadumañca upusakapundarikañca. O Bhikkhus, a layman who is endowed with five good qualities is called a 'ratanaupasaka', a 'padumaupusaka' and a 'pundarikaupasaka. Katamehi pañcahi? What are the five good qualities? Saddho hoti silava hoti akotuhalamangaliko hoti kammam pacceti no mangalam na ito bahiddha dakkhineyyam gavesati idha ca pubbakaram karoti. A layman who is confident is one, a layman who is moral is one, a layman who does not adhere to superstitions is one, believes only in karma (action) not in superstition is one, does not seek for...

Introduction about the Buddha The word "Buddhaparisada" (Buddhist) is the compound of two separate words, i.e. 'Buddha' in the Pali or Sanskrit language which means one who realizes hidden phenomena like The Four Noble Truths and so on up to the paths leading to the cessation of sufferings, the fruits and nirvana or one who is awake -mindful and clearly conscious all the time or one who is fully blooming like a lotus flower blooming all its petals -his mind is blooming because of the power of holiness as all defilements are eradicated, called The Fully Enlightened One, The Enlightened Being, The Supreme Teacher, The Lord, etc. who is generally known as the founder of Buddhism, and the word 'Parisada' in Sanskrit, 'Parisa' for Pali meaning a group of people assembling together or a group...