According to the sutras, great merit and virtue may be obtained by doing good deeds on ordinary auspicious days, and this is especially so during the four festivals; doing any good deeds such as chanting, prostrations, making offerings, offering vegetarian meals for the ordained sangha, keeping precepts, and practicing compassion and bodhicitta can ensure a billion times more merit and virtue. That is to say, only chanting a mantra once on such days can help you receive the merit of chanting it a billion times on other days, and so on.

 

Therefore, be sure not to miss such great opportunities to do your best in doing good deeds such as eating vegetarian food, stopping killing, and releasing lives, which are all very important.

~ Depicted from Luminous Wisdom Book Series 3