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About this meditation
Before read this section you must read section related to meditation of Lord Buddha. Donations, charities, helping mind & kind are entry door into Buddhist kingdom. Buddhist lay person start his long journey towards enlighten from simple donations. Donations help to collect merits, so thinking & remembering own donations help to increase that merit. This is like we did that donation more times. Because for every thing, mind comes first place. When someone did sin then think about it help to collect more sins as take loan then collecting interest. As same as merit activities also grown in mind when we happily recollect about them. It is like keeping money in bank & interest grown. Meditation of donation help to do this task. This is the best way to forget our worry happenings, pains, mistakes, etc...When we think about our donations, noble lightful happy feel inside our mind. This feelings can be used to achieve greater jhanas. Before do this meditation you must start to offer odorous & beautiful flowers to Lord Buddha then use this focus for meditation. Then you can start give alms, to poor ones, priests & Buddhist monks. Even offering flower to Buddha by remembering, is great merit powers. You no need big donations to do this meditation. You can read Jataka stories, Theri & Thera Apadana pali (past lives stories of Buddha & enlighten monks) to develop your donations. You can donate foods, drinks, cloths, flowers, odor airs, vehicles, beds, chairs, tables, educational materials, homes, temples, lamps to poor people & monks. Also Building public places such as gardens, temples, vacation rooms, water resources, toilets, schools, alms rooms, etc.. also include to donations. Person do this mediation stay according to Metta or loving kind to all living beings. Also you can transfer merits of your donations for gods, goddess & hungry ghosts. This also another type of donation. Lord Buddha said paying government taxes in right time, do our job well, help to relations & take care old parents & sick people also include donations. Remove jealous feelings about other's gains also one type of donations. In Buddhism, noble donations means observe precepts & stay against to our own lust or desires, illwill & ignorance. Merit incomes of this Meditation : If stay with precepts, rebirth in desired six heavens or greater heavens; Long life time, gold color skin, luxury life, powerful body & wisdom achieved in next lives; Popularity grown in society; Remove all mental & body pains, sufferings, crying & negative feelings in this life. Mediation Of Donations
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