Birthday Wishes

'To avoid all evil,
to cultivate good, and
to cleanse one's mind 
- this is the teaching of the Buddhas.'

'Sabbapāpassa akaraṇaṃ
kusalassa upasampadā
Sacittapariyodapanaṃ
- etaṃ buddhāna sāsanaṃ.'

- Dhammapada Verse 183

'Energetic and heedful in his tasks,
Wisely administering his wealth,
He lives a balanced life,
Protecting what he has amassed.

Endowed with faith and virtue too,
Generous he is and free from avarice;
He ever works to clear the path
That leads to weal in future life.

Thus to the layman full of faith,
By him, so truly named 'Enlightened,'
These eight conditions have been told
Which now and after lead to bliss.'

- Dīghajāṇu / Vyagghapajja Sutta AN 8.54

- Read in full here ...
www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an08/an08.054.nara.html

- Further re-Source : 'Everyman's Ethics : Four Discourses of the Buddha, adapted from the translations of Narada Thera'
www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/narada/wheel014.html

Dhamma Sharing 'Happiness' by Ajahn Jayasāro

Ajahn Jayasāro, born in England, studied under the Venerable Ajahn Chah in Thailand and became a novice monk in 1979 and a fully ordained bhikkhu in 1980. He served for five years as abbot of Wat Pa Nanachat, a monastery in Northeast Thailand that provides traditional forest monastic training in English to people from around the world. He has lived in a hermitage at the foot of the Kow Yai mountain range for the past decade. He is the author of many books on Buddhist theory and practice, teacher of meditation to lay Buddhists, and advisor to a growing movement to integrate Buddhism more effectively into the Thai education system.