The Thirty-Eight Blessings — Dharma of the Cave

Here are the blessings — the things that bring true prosperity — in the teaching of the Buddha:

not to keep company with fools;
to keep company with the wise;
to honour those worthy of honour;
to dwell in a fitting region and place;
to have made merit in the past;
to conduct oneself fittingly;
to be a person of much learning;
to be a person of special skill;
to be a person of discipline and order;
to say only what is good and useful;
to attend and care for one’s parents;
to support and guide one’s children in the right way;
to care attentively for one’s spouse;
to attend to one’s work and bring it to completion;
to be generous in sacrifice and giving;
to live according to the Dharma;
to support one’s kin;
to do what troubles neither oneself nor others;
to abstain from all evil;
to be a vigilant person;
to be a person of due reverence;
to be a person of humility and modesty;
to be content with what one has;
to have gratitude toward one’s benefactors;
to listen to the Dharma;
to be a person of patience;
to be a person of calm and composure;
to keep company with those who have virtue;
to be a person of effort and striving;
to discuss the Dharma;
to lead the holy life;
to see the Four Noble Truths clearly;
to rejoice in Nirvana;
to stand unshaken before the conditions of the world;
to be a person of bright, clear mind;
to be a person without impurities in the heart;
to be a person of a calm, clean mind.

The monk titles them “thirty-eight”, after the traditional number of the Maṅgala Sutta; in his hand-count one number is skipped, so the entries written are thirty-seven.

So are the blessings in the teaching of the Buddha.