Giving is Getting!

samahita

Friends:

Cause & Effect: Action & Reward:

Giving now is the prime cause of Future Wealth!
No giving = no wealth, much giving = much future wealth!

Giving Food, one gives and later gets Strength!
Giving Clothes, one gives and later gets Beauty!
Giving Medicine, one gives and later gets Health!
Giving Shelter, one gives and later gets Protection!
Giving Transport, one gives and later gets Swift Ease!
Giving Lamps, one gives and later gets Light and Sight!
Giving Learning, one gives and later gets Intelligence!
Giving True Dhamma, one gives & later gets Deathlessness!
Thus this gift of True Dhamma exceeds all other gifts...

More on Generosity = The 1st mental perfection:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Glad_Giving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Openhanded_Generosity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Generosity_Contemplation.htm

The Gods became the Gods, by Giving to the Pure Ones!

Giving is Getting!

Cause & Effect = Good Action & Reward:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/giving.htm

person

I couldn't find the exact passage but there is something that goes something like

Thinking if I give this, what will be left for me,
That is the way of Hungry Ghosts.
Thinking if I keep this for myself, what will be left to give,
That is the way of the Devas.

zenff

The Gods became the Gods, by Giving to the Pure Ones!

One of the stranger aspects of karma-consequences is this idea that the virtue of the receiver contributes to the amount of good karma for the giver.

So in a blunt example - exaggerated for the sake of clarity - it’s smarter to give the little food that I have to a monk (supposing he is very virtues) than to give it to my hungry children, who break things on purpose sometimes and who are generally poor Buddhists.

Or just putting myself in the position of a “pure one” when the parents ask me what is best:
I tell them the truth (I can't tell a lie); forget your little monsters, give everything that you have to me; I’m more virtues, this will pay out for you, trust me.

Does that feel awkward? Wouldn’t a pure one rather advise people to give whatever they can to their beloved children, or to anyone else who needs it more than me?

lobster

Here is your hungry child, your potential, Buddha as an elephant . . .
http://www.wildlifesos.org/blog/rajus-journey-freedom-photo-journal

Go Raju!

SarahT

The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensively and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

May I have the humility to receive graciously. Thanks @lobster for sharing the blessing of saving of Raju! :hair: