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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
In this Dhamma session, we take a closer look at the Kāladāna Sutta (AN 5.36) and the Buddha's teaching on giving timely gifts and how the merit-making can be vast.
The five timely gifts are:
- one gives to a visitor
- one gives to one setting out on a journey
- one gives to a patient (or sick person)
- one gives during a famine
- one first presents the newly harvested crops and fruits to the virtuous ones
We also cross-reference some additional teachings from the Buddha on gifts of a good person, remind ourselves of the importance of letting go of stinginess, some advice on how to refine giving, as well as look into why giving to noble ones makes a gift fruitful, and who is considered the most worthy of offerings and gifts.
Other suttas that are mentioned directly or indirectly in this talk:
- — Sappurisadāna Sutta (AN 5.148)
- — Sappurisadāna Sutta (AN 8.37)
- — Dāna Sutta (Iti 26)
- — Āhuneyya Sutta (AN 9.10)
- — Velāma Sutta (AN 9.20)
The video of this talk has been published to the Sutta Meditation YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksu52jyTKZg
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
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