Social Disaster : 4. The Relationship between Friends

If a person does not cherish his or her friends according to the duties described in the Six Directions, the harm that will come to them can be concluded on three levels

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:

Social Disaster : 1. The Parent-Child Relationship

The catastrophe brought to society by parental neglect can be enlarged ad follows: Loss of Respect for One’s own Human Dignity

Concepts for the instilling of Core Values

All that has been mentioned in the forgoing chapter are virtues which need to be instilled in the hearts of the people destined for self-improvement-because anyone with positive core values has the seeds of growing up into the sort of person for whom society is crying out.

Reforming society : Conclusions

In conclusion it can be said that the real reform that is needed to transform society for the better is reform of our own and others’ human nature

The Process of Human Reformation

Having discovered that all troubles in human society can be traced back to defilements our minds, it is necessary for us to get to the root of the problem by finding a process of reformation which can effectively remove these defilements.

Core Value # 5 : The real existence of the ‘world’

The term ‘world’ in Buddhist terminology means more than just our planet. It means:

Core Value # 8 : We are endebted to our father

This eighth form of core value indicates that a child acknowledges his or her debt of gratitude to his father. The debt of gratitude a person has tovards their father is the same as that they have towards their mother, i.e,:

Core Value # 9 : Spontaneously arising beings exist

This ninth form of core value is acceptance of the existence of spontaneously arising beings-beings which arise not because of their parents but as the result of karmic action they have committed themselves in the past.

Core Value # 10: Wise enlightened ones exist

If someone whose mind has been illuminated by a proper understanding of the nine previous sorts of core value has the chance to meet up with a wise ‘good friend ‘ [kalyanamitta], they will appreciate how the level of illumination in their ownn mind has increased as the result of behaviour.