AIブッダ 禅 経典データベース

A person stores away their savings in a deep trove by the water’s edge: “When need arises it will be there to help Such savings grant every desire of gods and humans too.

Analytical knowledge, the liberations, the perfections of the disciple, the plane of an independent Buddha: through this they have it all. This accomplishment in merit is so very beneficial.

That’s why the attentive and the astute praise the making of merit. free me from rulers if I am slandered, or from bandits if harassed, or to release me from debt, or in case of famine or losses.”

What the world calls savings get stored away for such reasons. But no matter how well stored away they are in a deep pit by the water’s edge, all their savings will fail to aid them all the time.

For perhaps those savings shift from there, or they forget what marks the site, or dragons make off with them, or spirits carry them away, or unloved heirs secretly unearth them.

only this you take when you go. You don’t have to share it with others, no thief makes off with your savings. An attentive one would make merit, the savings that stay with you.

Those who are skilled in the meaning of scripture should practice like this so as to realize the state of peace. Let them be capable and upright, very upright, easy to speak to, gentle and humble; Avoiding harmful views, virtuous, accomplished in insight,

frail or firm, long or large, medium, small, tiny or round, seen or unseen, living far or near, those who have been born <j>and those about to be born— may all beings be happy!