Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
This is the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series, focused on our younger audience looking into BUDDHA'S GRADUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LAY PEOPLE ON GIVING (dānakathaṁ)  
In this session we look into: 

— what is giving and why it is important 
— Importance of making and sharing merit 
— Different qualities around giving 
— Stories from the time of the Gautama Buddha 
— What blocks giving? 
— Who are our role models for giving or being great donors?  

Suttas that are mentioned directly or indirectly in this session: 

— Sappurisadāna Sutta (AN 5.148) 
— Pathamaaputtaka Sutta (SN 3.90) 
— Dutiyaaputtaka Sutta (SN 3.20) 
— Vacchagotta Sutta (AN 3.57) 
— Metta Sutta (Iti 22) 
— Tirokuḍḍa Sutta (Pv 1.5) 
— Sakkapañha Vatthu (Dhp 354) 
— Ugga Sutta (AN 7.7) 
— Vitthatadhana Sutta (AN 7.6) 
— Cūḷekasāṭakabrāhmaṇa Vatthu (Dhp 116) 
— Sumana Sutta (AN 5.31) 
— Chaḷaṅgadāna Sutta (AN 6.37) 
— Sīhasenāpati Sutta (AN 5.34)
— Dānānisaṁsa Sutta (AN 5.35) 
— Asadisadāna Vatthu (Dhp 177) 
— Chaṭṭhavagga (AN 1.249) 
— Sattamavagga (AN 1.259) 
— Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)   
— Anumāna Sutta (MN 15)  
— Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Snp 1.8)  
— Velāma Sutta (AN 9.20)  

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Bohoma pin to the people who have asked about gradual instructions for lay people over the past few months. There have been quite a few, so much merit to you.
Bohoma pin to the kind person who helped with collating and highlighting of some of these valuable suttas for this session. Much mudita.
A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymC5F01Qrqw AND on Spotify as a video podcast
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

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