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can someone explain what the most noble intention is before performing a good deed? and talk a little bit about this.
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Most noble intention is dharma transferring. Let all know enlightenment, understand enlightenment, realize enlightenment and achieve enlightenment and being enlightenment. When you mention good deed is actually natural human way of life, means as a human, it is such habit, once deviated is called unkind deed :meditate:
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1. Donation longing for praise and fame is inferior; donation hoping for wealth or celestial realms is medium; donation aspiring to nibbāna is superior.

2. The ‘slave donation’ regarding others as beneath oneself is inferior; the ‘friend donation’ regarding others as equal is medium; the ‘master donation’ regarding others as above oneself is superior.

3. The donation done out of fear of blame is inferior; the donation done out of pride is medium; the donation done out of faith in Dhamma is superior.
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befriend wrote:can someone explain what the most noble intention is before performing a good deed? and talk a little bit about this.
thank you, befriend
Being intent on renunciation, on non-ill-will, and on harmlessness.
any good deed which has these qualities is Noble, so it would depend on what the action is to know which is the most noble intention for that act and then to properly contextualise it for the circumstances.

although the general principles of what Dhamma is may help in deciding how right intention should manifest
'These qualities lead to dispassion, not to passion; to being
unfettered
, not to being fettered; to shedding, not to accumulating; to modesty, not to self-aggrandizement; to contentment, not to discontent; to seclusion, not to entanglement; to aroused persistence, not to laziness; to being unburdensome, not to being burdensome'
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