{"id":9048,"date":"2015-12-17T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/?p=9048"},"modified":"2024-11-01T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:16:38","slug":"buddhism-and-charitable-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/giving-life\/featured-series\/buddhism-and-charitable-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Charitable Giving in Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This perspective post was provided by\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Nicholas Ribush, Founding Director, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, as part of our faith and giving series.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The practice of Buddhism can be summed up in the short phrase, if you can\u2019t help others at least don\u2019t harm them. The ideal is to help others, but if that is beyond us at least we should not hurt them.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of Buddhist practice is enlightenment, the fully purified and perfected state attained by the Buddha, for oneself and all other sentient beings. This is possible because all beings\u2019 minds have as their essence a clear light nature that is only temporarily obscured by delusions such as ignorance, attachment and aversion. Buddhist practice gradually removes these obscurations until the mind\u2019s pure nature is revealed and the practitioner becomes a buddha.<\/p>\n<p>Buddhist practice is vast and profound, but one of the key practices, especially at the beginning of the path, is that of giving, or generosity. This is the antidote to miserliness and one of the methods of removing the stains of attachment.<\/p>\n<p>There are three types of giving: material giving, the giving of fearlessness and the giving of <em>dharma<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Material giving involves giving food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, money to the poor and so forth. Giving of fearlessness means saving beings\u2019 lives, like insects or animals from drowning, flies caught in spiders\u2019 webs, lobsters about to be boiled or people in prison. <em>Dharma<\/em> is what Buddhists call the teachings of the Buddha: the giving of <em>dharma<\/em> means making the teachings available by creating and running Buddhist centres, giving lectures and publishing books.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody can engage in these three types of giving every day. We can carry around small change or dollar bills to give to people begging in the street. We can be on the lookout for insects, animals or people in need of help. If we can\u2019t teach or publish books, we can at least contribute to these activities or to the support of our teachers or a Dharma center. The purpose of all this is, of course, to counter the attachment that tends to rule our life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">******<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Dr. Nicholas Ribush, Founding Director, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Dr. Nicholas Ribush<\/strong>\u00a0was one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. A founder of Wisdom Publications, Ribush is today the director of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, a collection of thousands of teachings by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lama_Yeshe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lama Yeshe<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lama_Zopa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lama Zopa<\/a>\u00a0Rinpoche, who pioneered the teaching of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tibetan_Buddhism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tibetan Buddhism<\/a>\u00a0in the West. After graduating from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melbourne_University\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melbourne University<\/a>\u00a0Medical School in 1964, Ribush first encountered Buddhism at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kopan_Monastery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kopan Monastery<\/a>\u00a0in 1972.He was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gelug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gelug<\/a>\u00a0monk from 1974 to 1986. He\u2019s established meditation centres in New Delhi and Boston as well as the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, Boston, which he now directs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This perspective post was provided by\u00a0Dr. Nicholas Ribush, Founding Director, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, as part of our faith and giving series.\u00a0 The practice of &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/giving-life\/featured-series\/buddhism-and-charitable-giving\/\" id=\"canadahelp-blog-meta\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[676,161,670,23,669],"class_list":["post-9048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-series","tag-buddhism","tag-faith","tag-faith-giving-series","tag-giving","tag-religion"],"acf":{"meta_description":"","author_bio":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charitable Giving in Buddhism | CanadaHelps - Donate to any charity in Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/giving-life\/featured-series\/buddhism-and-charitable-giving\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charitable Giving in Buddhism | CanadaHelps - Donate to any charity in Canada\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This perspective post was provided by\u00a0Dr. Nicholas Ribush, Founding Director, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, as part of our faith and giving series.\u00a0 The practice of ... 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