Linked Discourses 1.47

1. On Fire

Planters

“Whose merit always grows

by day and by night?

What people—firm in principle, accomplished in conduct—

are going to heaven?”

“Planters of parks or groves,

those who build a bridge,

a drinking place and well,

and those who give monastic quarters.

Their merit always grows

by day and by night.

Those people—firm in principle, accomplished in conduct—

are going to heaven.”