Which one is more important: doing charity, study the Dhamma, or practicing mindfulness?

The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.

20 February 2023

Question: Which one is more important: doing charity, study the Dhamma, or practicing mindfulness?

Than Ajahn:  All of them are important. You need to do charity to get rid of your obsession of using money to make yourself happy. You need to study the Dhamma before you can practice mindfulness. 

So, you need all three practices. 

If you still find that you need money to make you happy, then you have to do charity – spending the money that is going make you happy by giving it to charity instead, then you will find that you don’t need to spend that much money and therefore, you don’t have to work to get so much money. 

Then, you will have time to study the Dhamma and practice mindfulness. You need to do all three of them. But you need to do charity first.

Dhamma in English, Aug 19, 2020.

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Question:  Which one has the highest blessing:  doing dāna, keeping sīla, or practising bhāvanā?

Than Ajahn:  You need all three of them. You have to develop it from doing dāna, then going up the level to keeping the sīla, and eventually practising bhāvanā.

You cannot just choose to do the highest one, which is practising bhavana because you will not be able to do it if you don’t have dāna and sīla yet.

Dhamma in English, Sep 5, 2020.

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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