Daily Reading ~ September 18

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association)
Venerable Shravasti Dhammika

The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

These five advantages come to the virtuous man because of his practice of virtue. What five? Concerning this:

  • The virtuous man, possessed of virtue, by reason of his earnestness, comes by great wealth.
  • The virtuous man, possessed of virtue, gains a good reputation.
  • Again, the virtuous man, possessed of virtue – into whatever company he enters, whether nobles. Bhãmins, householders or recluses – he does so confidently and unconfused.
  • And again, the virtuous man, possessed of virtue, dies without bewilderment.
  • And lastly, the virtuous man, possessed of virtue, after death is reborn in heaven.