System Of Full Moon Day Eight Precepts
Get use to Poyaday Precepts or Uposatha Sila or Full Moon Day Eight Precepts which have big merits, great powers & vibration of merit incomes. Lord Buddha said about these precepts in Uposatha Vaggha in Anguttara Nikaya. Here we give you some translation of those sutras. You can go temple in full moon day or do precepts in home by thinking your home as temple. Sri Lankan Buddhist people doing Buddhist pujas, ask Buddhist preaching, discuss dharma with Buddhist mentors & reading Buddhist books in poya day. Also they are offering flowers, lighting incenses sticks & lighting oil lamps for virtue power of Lord Buddha then separate this day for meditation in temples or in their homes.  

This precepts observe or practice according to fully enlighten (arahant) Buddhist monk's daily routine. Lord Buddha said person who uses these precepts every poya day till he die, probably born in heaven where he likes. Then again Buddha said even someone observes these precepts only one day he will born in his desired heaven as powerful god. Here are precept systems. You must wear white or light color faultless dresses in poya days. You want to think as "I am staying today as enlighten Buddhist Monk" by protecting these precepts,

1. Till today 6am to next day 6am, I don't kill any living being and don't give pains, fear or horror to any one.
2. Till today 6am to next day 6am, I don't steal any thing from any one & ask or use unknown goods only after owner's right permission.
3. Till today 6am to next day 6am, I get rid from sexual activities & sexual feelings. Even I don't look at any sexually opposite person with wrong feeling.
4. Till today 6am to next day 6am, I talk only truth & positive words.
5. Till today 6am to next day 6am, I don't drink alcoholic drinks & meals which are help to destroy concentration.
6. Till today 6am to next day 6am, I eat hard meals only two times before 12pm (as breakfast & lunch) & I don't eat dinner. Also limit my drinking meals.
7. Till today 6am to next day 6am, I get rid from music, dancing, playing, talks related to jokes or smiling, using cosmetic scents, hanging flowers in body & wearing ornaments.
8. Till today 6am to next day 6am, I avoid luxury beds & comfortable chairs. Today I don't use any luxury house hold goods.

Practice these precepts for your own success. This will give you more luxury life & give great mind powers for achieve your life goals. Also precepts determine your next life between god's realms & human realms. Popular Buddhist teaching is "Not the sweet smell of flowers, not even the fragrance of sandal, rose or jasmine blows against the wind. But the fragrance of the virtuous one blows against the wind. Truly the virtuous one pervades all directions with the fragrance of his virtue. Of all the fragrances sandal, rose, blue lotus and jasmine the fragrance of virtue is the sweetest. Faint is the fragrance of rose and sandal but excellent is the fragrance of the virtuous, wafting even amongst the god’s realms", which is taken from Puppha Vagga verses in Dharmapadha.