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Monday 30 September 2019

Training rules - Dana (Allowable Requisites) & etc. How to offer allowable requisites?

Training rules - Dana (Allowable Requisites) & etc

How to offer allowable requisites?

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HOW TO OFFER ALLOWABLE REQUISITES

    Bhikkhus cannot request for any items from any lay person (except blood relatives) who have not initiated his or her invitation for offerings (the exception being a bhikkhu who is ill and is requesting for offering of medications). If one is keen to make offerings but is uncertain about what a bhikkhu requires, he could invite the bhikkhu and ask if he (the bhikkhu) needs any allowable requisites.

     Alternatively, he could seek help from the bhikkhu's kappiya (attendant). As the kappiya would have a better idea of what requisites the bhikkhu requires, the donor could seek his assistance in arranging (purchasing) allowable requisites to offer to the bhikkhu. After the donor has passed the money to the kappiya, he would need to extend a verbal or written invitation to the bhikkhu, stating thus:

How to offer Allowable Requisites to the bhikkhu

Note:
If you know who is the kappiya (kappiyakāraka) of the bhikkhu, please mention the name in the ............. (kappiya’s name).
If you don't know who is the kappiya of the bhikkhu, then please ask the bhikkhu first ''Who is your kappiya?'' and mention this name in the ............. (kappiya’s name).
(The bhikkhu must answer only the name of his kappiya: must not say ''to give to whom''.)

Sayadaw/Bhante,
I/We wish to offer bhante allowable requisites to the value of $xxx. If you need any allowable requisites, please request them from your kappiya ........................ (kappiya’s name).

      If both the donor and the kappiya failed to extend the invitation to the bhikkhu, then the bhikkhu could not request for any items even if he has a need. In such a circumstance, both the bhikkhu and the donor would not benefit from the arrangement.
source:

HOW TO INTERACT RESPECTFULLY WITH BHIKKHUS
- BASIC ETIQUETTE IN THERAVᾹDA BUDDHISM
https://goo.gl/mjJCX4


Offering Food To Monks

A Bhikkhu in this Dhamma-vinaya abstains from accepting gold and silver.  He abstains from accepting uncooked grain.  He abstains from accepting and eating raw meat.  He abstains from eating ten types of unallowable meat. 
https://goo.gl/MGrZTh

Offering cooked allowable foods to monks
https://goo.gl/5zAqVQ

In Samaññaphala Sutta, the Buddha says: "a bhikkhu in this Dhamma-vinaya abstains from consuming stored-up goods such as these — stored-up food, stored-up drinks, stored-up clothing, stored-up vehicles, stored-up bedding, stored-up scents, and stored-up meat.  This is part of his virtue."
https://goo.gl/amo2LD

Ajahn Jayasaro: 

"I am so afraid to touch money.  I stay away from it.  I am afraid to go to hell."
https://goo.gl/PSgDo9

https://goo.gl/FKjK6n

Proper way of offering fruits to monks
https://goo.gl/oi7NSG

Offering fruits to Monks
https://goo.gl/jAS9vT

Anamasa-Mnemonic
Anamasa is items which bhikkhus are prohibited to touch.  They are such as women and this includes mother, daughter, sister, sleeping woman, dead woman, female animal, a wooden doll...etc
https://goo.gl/8mRkxC

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