Creating Good Karma in Harmony | Importance of 5 Precepts | Robe Offering Ceremony Dhammagiri | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts · Nov 11, 2025 · 20m

Ajahn Dhammasiha's formal Dhamma Talk at the Robe Offering Ceremony at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage.

Ajahn reflects on the power of puñña (good karma/'merits'), and the importance of harmony and cooperation when making good karma together.

He also goes through the five precepts forming the fundamental ethics of a Buddhist lay practitioner:

We train ourselves to abstain from intentionally killing living beings

We train ourselves to abstain from stealing

We train ourselves to abstain from sensual misconduct like adultary

We train ourselves to abstain from lying

We train ourselves to abstain from…