Monks, in giving a meal, a giver gives five things to an almsman. What five?
He gives life, beauty, ease, strength and wit; but in giving these he becomes a partaker in each quality, in heaven and among men.
-Anguttara Nikaya From "365 Buddha: Daily Meditations," edited by Jeff Schmidt. Reprinted by arrangement with Tarcher/Putnam, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. provided by www.beliefnet.com |