Truly Favorable and Optimistic

Monks, those beings who engage in wholesome conduct by body, speech, and mind in the morning have a good morning.

Those beings who engage in wholesome conduct by body, speech, and mind in the afternoon have a good afternoon.

And those beings who engage in wholesome conduct by body, speech, and mind in the evening have a good evening.

Truly favorable and optimistic, a peaceful daybreak and a joyful rising, a precious moment and a cheerful hour will come for those who offer alms (a donation) to those leading the spiritual life.

(Reference: AN 3.155)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares how individuals who practice wholesome moral conduct in the morning, afternoon, and evening by body, speech, and mind, will have a good morning, afternoon, and evening.

If one understands and practices wholesome moral conduct and understands The Natural Law of Kamma, all worries and fears can be eliminated.

By knowing that you are not causing any harm to any being through your moral conduct of body, speech, and mind, then there is no harm that will come to you.

Through learning, reflecting, and practicing these Teachings described in detailed as part of The Eight Fold Path and all the other Teachings that connect into The Eight Fold Path, a Practitioner will gradually improve the condition of the mind and their life. As a Practitioner chooses to no longer cause harm in the world through one’s body, speech, and mental conduct, then as the harm one causes diminishes, so will the harm coming back to them. Eventually, as one extinguishes all craving, anger, and ignorance (unknowing of true reality), no longer making decisions through a polluted mind with The Ten Fetters, then one’s mind and life is completely and entirely peaceful.

To accomplish this goal, a Practitioner needs to take it one day at a time and one moment at a time - as detailed in this Teaching.

If one practices wholesome moral conduct in the morning by body, speech, and mind, they will have a good morning.

If one practices wholesome moral conduct in the afternoon by body, speech, and mind, they will have a good afternoon.

If one practices wholesome moral conduct in the evening by body, speech, and mind, they will have a good evening.

Body = Right Action

Speech = Right Speech

Mind = Right Intention

Choosing to take your life one moment at a time through focusing on what needs to be accomplish right now in the present moment, will lead to wholesome results. Rather than, focusing on what the mind “wants” from the past that no longer exists or focusing on what the mind “wants” in the future, instead, just focus on right now - the present moment.