Blessings of rejoicing.

 The well-known Buddhist practice of generosity or charity is a good way to bring many benefits for themselves, their families and society. However not everyone is healthy accomplish this if the legal opinion of money and riches can almsgiving. 

There are very poor people, they do not have the ability to meet the basic needs of life like food, clothing, housing, medical, sometimes even run into debt, like how they have the opportunity to practice giving and charity , sharing and helping others. 

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The Buddha pointed out, though there is no money to charity, help others physically, who want to practice almsgiving almsgiving may still others, such as pilot and fearless experimental approach. French pilots are others knowledge, life experiences, career; share guidance for others to understand and practice dharma to get peace and happy, happiness, achievement of moral values, spiritual values, there is life right feet, uplifting. Fearless pilot is not afraid of giving, helping others overcome insecurity, anxiety, sorrow, as consolation, shared attention, shelter, protection, relief forms, may be due on his strength, thanks to the knowledge and wisdom of his compassion-position thanks to his brave-so ...

However, there are still people suffering very poor circumstances, not only their material poverty but poverty of knowledge, poor intelligence, poor courage, they practice hard and fearless pilot experiments. With infinite compassion, the Buddha taught in those cases in which there are blessings of giving. When the king of Qin-she-sa-la garden offerings Truc Lam, King Buddha taught a verse as follows:  "Those who alms / Termination except for being stingy / or patience Who / Far left is anger / Who or healing / Time away from foolish / Who was unfortunate enough three / Mau attained impoverished Niet-ban/Neu have / No's for charity / alms When people see / That joy of birth / Blessed He reported rejoice / Equal generosity of people. "

The act of giving to charity comes from the heart, these things only bring out a means of giving help to cultivate, remodeling the mind, it is necessary to give alms mind before making charity activities . If that is not true alms alms center is without merit. The aim of the charity is renounced greed, narrow mind, selfish, selfless spirit can be forgiving, and nurturing and developing compassion. But if you give alms, do charity work for personal gain, because droppas want to advertise names, creation reputation is not legal alms achievement despite spending a lot of money, effort . Those too poor still have a chance of giving, which is expanding heart, ie, the compassionate, generous mind, to share, to help others no matter their condition. The Buddha taught to see others giving, offering, do good works, though I can not afford to do things like that, but I still have merit, blessings rejoice if interested (please follow the alms , please follow the alms, that people are suffering, then help yourself feel happy, find others to heal, our hearts rejoice). What is more special blessings of the mind rejoicing alms par with the blessings of work for charity.

Noting that should really glad heart, happy to see others work for charity, to find help those in need. There is also the real joy in my heart, rejoicing with the generosity of others, but they do not own themselves want to open your heart, do not want to open their wallets for stinginess, miserliness. Such development is not benevolence, not develop compassion, letting go is not greed, narrow mind, selfish. In actual fact there are many people like that, knowing recommend others give alms, do blessings, understanding the benefits of personal generosity but rarely let go of the money, his possessions to charity executive .

In the  chapter II Pyramid,  the Buddha said, to see people working their generosity instant joy, sustain their noble work, though not themselves have the money to charity, I must be very blessings large (kurtosis experimental direct and support costs joyful, blessed even attained age). So there are people who think that they spend time and effort (though I have the ability of material resources), while others give money, so they both get blessings. If there is a genuine generosity to help others certainly have merits, but thinking like that (unfortunately also interest money, just spend the effort is enough), the generosity of its many blessings because there are not still Sen also little bath, craving possessions.

Why only joy, generosity sustain the blessings that have been great? Why is there rejoicing center blessings equal generosity? For longer than measuring attention, calculation, and selfishness, this does not seem fair. The Buddha explained that in doing  Pyramid II program  as follows: "For as the fire of a torch, a few hundred thousand people were used to split that took to cooking or lighting, but many people have been fire torch initially remain the same ". True generosity and genuine sustained joy, rejoicing candidates are derived from the action so the merit of good, great blessings. The new center is not the main act, the act of giving right feet only a manifestation of mind right feet. Forms alms really useful for people who receive alms and charity or not depending on their mind.

If the act of giving and rejoicing, the candidates have great blessings action prevents your giving, interior rot or not the wish of giving joy before the charity of others is immoral actions, including actions brought to the bad retribution. Some people do not want charity work and others do not like handouts. When you see other people doing the giving, they feel uncomfortable, frustrating, hate alms, alms defame people, destruction of almsgiving, such actions cause suffering for themselves and future encounter misfortune, suffering and estrangement treatment of others. The work of the charity, the charity created many blessings and to be more fortunate with many people. In contrast, people who do not like alms, alms hate, closed her heart, poor self selfish self (blessings poor, poor love, poor intellectual), and isolating themselves from the many evil fate with others (by preventing seeding agents, anti-people and people receiving alms giving, losing the opportunity to overcome difficulties and hardships of the people). This is easy to see who has an open mind, often helping, sharing, concern for others, do a lot of benefit for life, such people are respected, loved and always be reminded reminder, when working whatever social concern, many supporters. And those greedy, four slugs, selfish, not loving, sharing, that person is lonely, few friends, if any, is just the same as them. Such people usually work impeded, no support, and what they do is not beneficial to the community and society.

At that time the Buddha, monks have a day not being hungry because no one gave him alms. The reason is because in a past life he prevented his mother offerings to a Buddhist Bich-chi. Not only prevent but he grabbed a bowl of rice and pour the ground and stepped on his foot. Thus his life from birth to live in poverty and misery, until the venerable Shariputra for the continued ordained monks as a misfortune, always suffer hunger by not have offered. Retribution of immoral behavior it is difficult to infer, if not aware this is a misfortune.  

Meaning, the value of the benefit generosity, philanthropy is very great for myself personally and socially. The jobs that alleviate sufferings of the unfortunate people, to help eliminate poverty gap, the tight friendship between people injured, help stabilize society, especially to make life more beautiful and meaning. For those who believe in reincarnation, the causality works also useful for the future of this life and the next life.

In this day and age, when there is a social divide between rich and poor is very large, graphic raging fire disaster, it needs to be shared, help and support is a big demand, so give alms, from good and forms magnitude more important than the role. So everybody should play center alms (including charity) and rejoice before this noble virtues.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTFOLD PATH.NAM MO SAKYA MUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.10/6/2014.