The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.
12 July 2024“If you train yourself to give regularly, you will be able to give things away when someone tries to take something from you.”
You cannot change your past actions (kamma), but you can change your future kamma by not creating any new kamma.
When you do good deeds, you will do fewer bad deeds. When you give and practise generosity (dāna), you will develop moral virtue (sıla); you will not want to commit any sin or kamma. This is because merit-making instils in you loving-kindness (mettā), compassion (karunā), and empathy for others.
You’d take other people’s feelings into consideration with all of your actions.
You want others to be happy, so you make merit. You prepare and offer food to monks because you want them to be happy. This makes you not want to cause trouble for others.
But if you don’t make merit, you will keep no matter how much money you’ve earned. When someone tries to take your money, you may even kill one another.
This is because you’re still attached to your possessions, so when someone tries to take them from you, you will fight for them.
However, if you train yourself to give regularly, you will be able to give things away when someone tries to take something from you. That is also a form of merit-making.
Instead of getting angry and upset with them, you’d just give those things to them. Instead of wanting to hurt them, you’d just think that you’d better pay back what you might have owed them in the past.
If they’re able to take your possessions, so let them. If they’re able to trick you out of your money, so let them.
If they’re able to steal from you, you won’t complain about it.
When your possessions are gone, you will not be angry at or hate them. This is because you’d consider it as merit-making through giving.
By Ajaan Suchart Abhijāto
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