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Khuddakapāṭha

Kp 2 Dasasikkhāpada: The Ten Precepts

[Note: These are the precepts taken by novice Buddhist monastics.]

  1. I undertake the precept to refrain from killing living creatures.
  2. I undertake the precept to refrain from stealing.
  3. I undertake the precept to refrain from sexual activity.
  4. I undertake the precept to refrain from lying.
  5. I undertake the precept to refrain from taking alcoholic drinks that cause negligence.
  6. I undertake the precept to refrain from food at the wrong time.
  7. I undertake the precept to refrain from seeing shows of dancing, singing, and music .
  8. I undertake the precept to refrain from beautifying and adorning myself with garlands, perfumes, and makeup.
  9. I undertake the precept to refrain from high and luxurious beds.
  10. I undertake the precept to refrain from receiving gold and money.

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Kp 7 Tirokuṭṭasutta: Outside the Walls

Outside the walls they stand and wait,
at the junctions and the crossroads.
Returning to their former homes
they wait beside the door posts.

But when lavish food and drink
of many kinds is set out,
no-one remembers them at all,
because of those beings’s deeds.

That’s why those who have compassion
give to their relatives
food and drink at the right time,
that’s clean, delicious, and suitable.

“May this be for our relatives!
May our relatives be happy!”
Those ghosts who have gathered there,
the departed relatives who have come

for the lavish food and drink
gratefully express appreciation:
“May our relatives live long!
For those to whom we owe this gain,

who have given honor to us,
it will not be fruitless for the donor.”
There is no farming there,
no cow pasture can be found;

likewise there’s no trading,
and no commerce in gold.
The departed, the dead in that place
live on what is given here.

Just as water that rains on high
flows down to the plains,
so too what is given here
aids the departed ghosts.

Just as the rivers full
swell the ocean seas
so too what is given here
aids the departed ghosts.

Thinking: “They gave to me, they did for me,
they were my family, friend, companion”,
give offerings to departed kin,
remembering past deeds.

For neither tears nor grief
or other lamentations
are of any use to the departed,
so long as their relatives stay like this.

This offering that has been given,
well placed in the Saṅgha,
is for their lasting welfare,
and aids them right away.

The relative’s duty has now been shown:
how high honor to departed is performed,
how the mendicants can be kept healthy,
and how no little merit is produced by you.


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Khp 6 From… Ratana Sutta — Treasures

…Those who have seen clearly the noble truths
well-taught by the one deeply discerning—
regardless of what [later] might make them heedless—
will come to no eighth state of becoming.3
     This, too, is an exquisite treasure in the Saṅgha.
     By this truth may there be well-being.

At the moment of attaining sight,
one abandons three things:
     identity-views, uncertainty,
     & any attachment to habits & practices.4
One is completely released
from the four states of deprivation,5
and incapable of committing
the six great wrongs.6
     This, too, is an exquisite treasure in the Saṅgha.
     By this truth may there be well-being.…

3. The person who has reached this stage in the practice will be reborn at most seven more times.

4. These three qualities are the fetters abandoned when one gains one’s first glimpse of unbinding at stream-entry (the moment when one enters the stream to full awakening).

5. Four states of deprivation: rebirth as an animal, a hungry ghost, an angry demon, or a denizen of hell. In the Buddhist cosmology, none of these states is eternal.

6. According to the commentary, the six great wrongs are: murdering one’s mother, murdering one’s father, murdering an arahant (fully awakened individual), wounding a Buddha, causing a schism in the Saṅgha, or choosing anyone other than a Buddha as one’s foremost teacher. The first five are listed in AN 5:129 as leading immediately to hell after death.

Read the entire translation of Khuddakapāṭha 6 Ratana Sutta — Treasures by Bhikkhu Ṭhanissaro on DhammaTalks.org. Or read a different translation on SuttaCentral.net, SuttaFriends.org, Ancient-Buddhist-Texts.net or AccessToInsight.org. Or listen on SC-Voice.net. Or explore the Pali on DigitalPaliReader.online.

Khp 5 From… Maṅgala Sutta — Protection

Broad knowledge, skill,
well-mastered discipline,
well-spoken words:
—This is the highest protection.

Read the entire translation of Khuddakapāṭha 5 Maṅgala Sutta — Protection by Bhikkhu Ṭhanissaro on DhammaTalks.org. Or read a different translation on SuttaCentral.net, SuttaFriends.org, Ancient-Buddhist-Texts.net or AccessToInsight.org. Or listen on SC-Voice.net. Or explore the Pali on DigitalPaliReader.online.

Khp 5 From… Mahā Maṅgala Sutta: Discourse on Blessings

…Generosity, righteous conduct,
giving assistance to relatives,
and doing blameless deeds
these are the highest blessings….

Read the entire translation of Khuddakapāṭha 5 Mahā Maṅgala Sutta: Discourse on Blessings by Ven. Kiribathgoda Gnananda Thero on SuttaFriends.org as well as an audio recording in Pali and English.

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Khp 9 Metta Sutta: Discourse on Loving-Kindness

One skilled in good wishing to attain that state of peace Nibbāna should act thus: he should be clever upright, exceedingly upright, obedient, gentle and humble.

He should be content, easy to support, with few duties, living lightly, controlled in senses, discerning, courteous and unattached to families.

One should not do any slight wrong which the wise might censure. May all beings be happy and secure! May all beings have happy minds!

Whatever living beings there may be without exception: timid or fearless; long or large, medium, short, subtle or gross,

Visible or invisible, living near or far, born or coming to birth, may all beings have happy minds!

Let no one deceive another, nor despise anyone anywhere. Neither from anger nor ill will should anyone wish harm to another.

As a mother would risk her own life to protect her only child, even so towards all living beings, one should cultivate boundless loving-kindness.

One should cultivate for all the world a heart of boundless loving-kindness, above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hatred or resentment.

Whether standing, walking or sitting, lying down or whenever awake, one should develop this mindfulness. This is called “divinely dwelling here.”

Not falling into wrong views, but virtuous and possessing right view, removing desire for sensual pleasures, one comes never again to birth in the womb.

This sutta is also known as the Karaṇīyamettā Sutta. It can be found in two places in the canon: Khuddakapāṭha 9 and Sutta Nipāta 1.8.

Read this translation of Kh 9 Metta Sutta: Discourse on Loving-Kindness by Ven. Kiribathgoda Gnananda Thero on SuttaFriends.org. Or read a different translation on SuttaCentral.net, DhammaTalks.org, Ancient-Buddhist-Texts.net or AccessToInsight.org. Or listen on SC-Voice.net. Or explore the Pali on DigitalPaliReader.online.

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