Happy Auspicious New Year to all you Guys & family , normally everyone from different buddhist tradtions background would seek blessings from the buddhist teachers , Archans , LPs or lama rinpoches especially for the coming new year , all of us would love to receive the highest blessings from our gurus . So i think it be wonderfully auspicious i share with all on this Discourse on the Highest Blessings, the real omens, or the most auspicious and "lucky" actions.

Life's Highest Blessings-The Maha Mangala Sutta

Thus have I heard:
Once while the Blessed One was staying in the vicinity of Saavatthi, in the Jeta Grove, in Anaathapi.n.dika's monastery, a certain deity, whose surpassing brilliance and beauty illumined the entire Jeta Grove, late one night came to the presence of the Blessed One; having come to him and offered profound salutations he stood on one side and spoke to him reverently in the following verse:
I
Many deities and human beings
Have pondered what are blessings,
Which they hope will bring them safety:
Declare to them, Sir, the Highest Blessing.
(To this the Blessed One replied):
II
With fools no company keeping.
With the wise ever consorting,
To the worthy homage paying:
This, the Highest Blessing.
III
Congenial place to dwell,
In the past merits making,
One's self directed well:
This, the Highest Blessing.
IV
Ample learning, in crafts ability,
With a well-trained disciplining,
Well-spoken words, civility:
This, the Highest Blessing.
V
Mother, father well supporting,
Wife and children duly cherishing,
Types of work unconflicting:
This, the Highest Blessing.
VI
Acts of giving, righteous living,
Relatives and kin supporting,
Actions blameless then pursuing:
This, the Highest Blessing.
VII
Avoiding evil and abstaining,
From besotting drinks refraining,
Diligence in Dhamma doing:
This, the Highest Blessing.
VIII
Right reverence and humility
Contentment and a grateful bearing,
Hearing Dhamma when it's timely:
This, the Highest Blessing.
IX
Patience, meekness when corrected,
Seeing monks and then discussing
About the Dhamma when it's timely:
This, the Highest Blessing.
X
Self-restraint and holy life,
All the Noble Truths in-seeing,
Realization of Nibbaana:
This, the Highest Blessing.
XI
Though touched by worldly circumstances,
Never his mind is wavering,
Sorrowless, stainless and secure:
This, the Highest Blessing.
XII
Since by acting in this way,
They are everywhere unvanquished,
And everywhere they go in safety:
Theirs, the Highest Blessings.
Here ends the Discourse on Blessings

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