- To serve the wise and to honour those who deserve honour.
- To dwell in a pleasant land, to have done good works in a former birth, to
nurture right desires.
- To cultivate clarity of mind, a pleasant manner of speech, learning,
self-mastery.
- To support one's parents, to cherish one's spouse and children, to follow
a peaceful calling.
- To give alms, to live with uprightness, to help one's kin, to act beyond
reproach.
- To abhor and cease from evil, to abstain from intoxicants, to persist in
well-doing.
- To be reverent and humble, to be content and grateful, to study the Dhamma.
- To be patient and gentle, to keep the company of peaceful, non-violent
persons, to speak properly of spiritual matters.
- To be self-restrained, to know the Four Noble Truths, to realise Nirvana.
- To develop equanimity, to avoid yielding to grief or to passion.
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