Index

A Precious Human Life

Everyday, Think as you wake up, Today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious Human Life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, To expand my heart out to others, To achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry, or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as i can.

The Dalai Lama

Buddha

The Buddha once summarised his entire teachings in one beautiful sentence: I teach about suffering and the way to end it.

Avatamsaka Sutra

The supreme and endless blessings of Samantabhadra’s deeds, I now universally transfer. May every living being, drowning and adrift, Soon return to the Land of Limitless Light!

Summary

 

Of these ten ways of making merit, the merit in giving (dana) arises when one thinks, 'I will give a gift' when one gives the gift, and when one reflects 'I have given the gift'. Thus the three intentions — preliminary intention (pubbacetana), intention at the time of giving the gift (muñcana-cetana), and subsequent intention after giving it (aparacetana) — become one and constitute the way of making merit in giving.

The merit which consists of moral conduct or virtue (sila) arises also when one thinks, ‘I will fulfill the precepts’, when one fulfils them, and when one reflects ‘I have fulfilled the precepts’. All three intentions becoming one constitute the way of making merit in moral conduct. So it is for the remaining eight.