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| 1. | Weeds are the bane of fields, lust is the bane of this mankind, hence what is given to the lustless yields abundant fruit. |
| 2. | There are three kinds of giving: 1. material giving 2. Dhamma giving 3. fearless giving |
| 3. | A gift......should not be made by a noble man who pursues a purpose (when giving)......(But) he who......makes a gift free from purpose, his stock of merits is not easy to be measured. |
| 4. | The body is not a self. For if this body were a self (then) this body would not tend to illness. |
| 5. | When the conviction of non-selfness has taken root in a person, it leads him to eguainimity and superior composure. |
