The Noble Truth of Suffering : 8. Resentment

The Buddha characterized this form of suffering as that which makes us aggressively sensitive about a particular thing

Overview : 1. The Path of Sensual Indulgence

The path of sensual pleasure [kamasukhallikanuyogal, is to seek for pleasures through the channels of the five outer senses: eyes, ears, nose, mouth and physical contact

Core Value # 3: Virtue should be honoured

This sort of view advocates any form of practice which praises pr honours the virtues of others. To give some examples:

The Discipline of the Enlightened Ones

“(I count amongst my) noble disciples those who have the self-discipline to refrain from the Four Defilements of Action, who restrain themselves from the Four Forms of Bias and who do not indulge in the Six Directions…”

Core Value # 7 : We are endebted to our mother

This seventh form of core value indicates that a person acknowledges hos or her debr of gratitude to his mother.

The Essence of Human Reformation

When we consider the subject of reforming human nature, the subject of this book, we mean the transformation process from the untrained to the well-trained mind.

How I Proceeded

I use the mantra ‘Samma Arahang’ (which means ‘purify the mind’) repeating silently three times at each key point, until resting my mind at the seventh base.

The Noble Truth of Suffering :10. Exposure to hateful things

The Buddha characterized this form of suffering as the sort of cloudedness of mind, grief and melancholy which result from cloudedness of mind

Primitive Belief

People have to face a mixture of happiness and suffering throughout their lives. It is likely that the proportion of suffering usually exceeds happiness.

Target Character Trait # 1: Responsibility for ones own human dignity

The first three defilements of actions are physical evil action. The fourth is verbal evil action. The fourth is verbal evil action.