Teaching Children to Live by the Five Precepts
It is not an overstatement to say that teaching children to abide by the Five Precepts is the most important responsibility of their parents
A Mind Invulnerable to Worldly Vicissitudes
The mind that is afraid or disappointed by Worldly Vicissitudes is worrisome that is might encounter something unpleasant or something that it is afraid of
How is a fool is and what are the ill-effects from associating with the fools?
The first auspiciousness of life teaches us not to associate with the fools. First of all, I’d like to know how a fool is like, and what the ill-effects from associating with the fools are.
Ordination…Why is it good? What will you get? And why should you do?
Ordination…Why is it good? What will you get? And why should you do? Dhammakaya Temple has the answers and is waiting for you, the real men, to prove it by yourself.
For jealous people what is their downside and how can this be rectified?
Not Leaving One’s Work Undone
The nature of dung on the tail of a pig is to accumulate with the passing of the days, making it increasingly difficult for the pig to find happiness in its daily life
Author’s Preface
Buddhism is unique in teaching a way to overcome suffering, with its aim definitively to liberate oneself from the Cycle of Existence [vadda-samsara] thereby attaining the highest eternal happiness
If we are to promote anyone to a supervisory level, what are the required qualities?
Respectfulness.
Knowledge of each object or material we encounter accrding to its genuine specific qualifications will be much more useful to us in the long run than if we are ignorant of their properties.
Mechanism # 2: Abstention from the Four Forms of Bias
Bias may occur whenever two persons are together. If we are not careful, bias can start from our mind. It will never happen if we have responsibility for our own human dignity because the true cause of bias is the untrained mind.
