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"Giving is something everyone should do, but giving must be done without any ulterior motive — for example, if you give a cat food so that it has the strength just to catch mice for us, that isn’t generosity, because the motive is centred on the giver. However if you give in order to relieve the cat’s hunger and want no material reward — that is generosity. Giving food to other animals is the same — you must give without the thought of receiving anything in return. If you keep a dog just to frighten thieves away — that’s not generosity — you must give honestly, sympathetically, intentionally and think, ‘if I didn’t give something to it on this occasion, it would die, because it is reliant on us’.” Luang Phaw was very compassionate but would not tolerate lies. He said that a person who lies is one devoid of goodness. He praised sincerity in all things, including the pursuit of virtue. When Luang Phaw received news that his first sponsor ‘Nuam’, crippled by old-age had no-one to care for her, he took her into the temple, putting her under the care of his nuns. With thought of gratitude for how Nuam had helped him through his most difficult times, Luang Phaw supported her until the end of her days, and when she passed away he held her funeral in style. On another occasion there was an old man of strong faith, but of slender means, who came to study meditation. Even with only a small amount of progress in his meditation, he was overwhelmed with joy and went home to bid his wife and family farewell. Partings over, he returned to Wat Paknam with a dried fish to offer to Luang Phaw saying, “I’m offering this fish to you. It’s all I have.”