Showing posts with label dāna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dāna. Show all posts

Monday, March 27, 2023

Visit Buddha Vihar Daily!

What is Buddha Vihar?

Buddhist viharas are monasteries can be categorised as monks' residences, centres for religious study and meditation, and places of worship. Vihar means haar (defeat) against the self ego. In Buddha vihar we lose our sense of self ego until there is nothing left as my, mine, etc. the ego loses its grip on us. 

Previously wherever Gautam buddha sat there it was known as Vihar. Since in North India B pronunciation is quite prevalent so Vihar became today's Bihar state.


We should go in Buddha Vihar every day and in there we should discuss dana, samadhi, sheela. No outside talk or gossip should done in Buddha vihar. While going to vihar we should take something for dana though it is necessary but any dana done in vihar will bring you good fortune.

It gives immense peace once you start practicing dana, samadhi, sheela. So start with practicing it in Buddha viharas daily.



Friday, March 24, 2023

How dāna (donation) becomes fulfilled with these 3 things

Gautam Buddha says that whenever we donate /or do dāna these 3 things are important

  1. We should have faith in our heart.
  2. We should have something to offer.
  3. The receiver should be worthy of the donation.


If 3 karma's align we receive the fruits of our dāna. We should not donate expecting something else in return. It is not a transaction but a sacrifice of the object that we have. 

Our dāna brings us the fruits depending upon who we donate to. Different fruits will come out of dāna to someone who has anger, someone who is Shrotapanna, Anagami, etc.

We should have faith in our heart, positivity and cheerfulness while doing dāna. In Buddhist scriptures it is written that if when we have cheerfulness during dāna, we tend to receive the fruits of it within that day itself. The fruits can be anything positive that can help us live a good life.