{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti60/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti60","id":"suttacentral_iti60","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti60/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, there are these three grounds for making merit. What three? Giving, ethical conduct, and meditation are all grounds for making merit. These are the three grounds for making merit.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cOne should practice only good deeds, whose happy outcome stretches ahead. Giving and moral conduct, developing a mind of love: having developed these three things yielding happiness, that astute one is reborn in a happy, pleasing world.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Grounds for Making Merit","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":108}