TIMELY GIVING

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:

1. one gives to a visitor
2. one gives to one setting out on a journey
3. one gives to a patient (or sick person)
4. one gives during a famine
5. 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