Saturday, September 15, 2012

Repeated Encouragement to Do Good

I heard Sayadaw U Vimala talked about doing good deeds. We are very lazy to do good deeds.
To do one good deeds is very difficult. For example, pouring water during Dana is found by Sayadaw to be difficult to do by the devotees.
There are many examples of good deeds that people will not do even though Sayadaw mentioned the good deeds for many many times.
Every one has their own duty to do. So we must do our duty. For e g if we are monks we must have qualities and characteristics. the same with the laypersons. For example, one of the duty of the layperson is to take care if the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha most of the time the layperson will give the excuse of being busy when doing good deeds. Sayadaw said this shows that we are lack of saddha to the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.
We should learn about the Buddha's saddha and duties.
The Buddha do 5 duties a day that are morning, afternoon, first watch night , middle watch night and last watch night duties. The Buddha only sleeps 2 hours a day.
Sadhu sadhu sadhu

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