Buddhist Stories: Treasurer Catfoot Bilalapadaka, Part 2 of 3, Sept. 17, 2015

Originally, all religions never advocated violence. They always have the five or ten precepts. The first one is “Thou shall not kill.” Not just kill, but harm. Not just kill by physical means, but also by mental or emotional, hurting other people’s feelings as well. That’s also a kind of violence. All the Buddhist stories encourage people to give, to give with love, with generous heart, and to give whatever you have. “A man who both himself gives and urges other to give also, in the various places where he is reborn, such a man receives both the blessing of wealth and the blessing of a following.”