iti60:0.1So It Was Said 60
iti60:0.2The Book of the Threes
iti60:0.3Chapter Two
iti60:0.4Grounds for Making Merit
iti60:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti60:2.1“Mendicants, there are these three grounds for making merit.
iti60:2.2What three?
iti60:2.3Giving, ethical conduct, and meditation are all grounds for making merit.
iti60:2.4These are the three grounds for making merit.”
iti60:2.5The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti60:2.6On this it is said:
iti60:3.1“One should practice only good deeds,
iti60:3.2whose happy outcome stretches ahead.
iti60:3.3Giving and moral conduct,
iti60:3.4developing a mind of love:
iti60:4.1having developed these
iti60:4.2three things yielding happiness,
iti60:4.3that astute one is reborn
iti60:4.4in a happy, pleasing world.”
iti60:5.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.