What are the characteristics of a refined mind?
The refined mind is clear, bright, and free from defilements. To refine one’s mind is not easy because one has to work against the temptations thrown up by the mental defilements.
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.
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.
What are the Characteristics of Untrained Mind?
When the mind is obscured by defilements, it is constricted like being imprisoned in a small dark room. Just as one who is imprisoned alone becomes paranoid about possible dangers, the first impulse will be to save his own skin.
Summary
Those who wish happiness in this life, the next life and the most happiness so as to extinguish all the defilements to reach Nirvana, have to develop themselves by following the steps to happiness
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…”
I would like to ask Luang Phaw why the Lord Buddha said “The Gift of Dhamma beats all other donations.”
Hearing Luang Phaw mentioned about Dhamma Dana (The Gift of Dhamma), I would like to ask Luang Phaw why the Lord Buddha said “The Gift of Dhamma beats all other donations.”
If military personnel has the opportunity to ordain as a monk, what appropriate topics of the Buddhist teachings should they be taught? What kinds of merit will those who sponsor the ordination ceremony gain?
If military personnel has the opportunity to ordain as a monk, what appropriate topics of the Buddhist teachings should they be taught? And what kinds of merit will those who sponsor the ordination ceremony gain?
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.
Someone asked me: the objective of maintaining the 8 precepts is to be celibate. If he is able to maintain the third precept, the other subordinate precepts such as the sixth, seventh, and eighth precepts, he does not need to maintain those. Is this tru
Someone asked me: the objective of maintaining the 8 precepts is to be celibate. If he is able to maintain the third precept, the other subordinate precepts such as the sixth, seventh, and eighth precepts, he does not need to maintain those. Is this true?
