Target Character Trait # 4 : Responsibility towards the Environment
Having responsibility towards the environment means having responsibility both towards the natural environment (by conservation) and our immediate human environment (by performing our duties towards the ‘ six directions’ discussed earlier).
Taking Responsibility for Ourselves
Why do some people not take responsibility for themselves? “Nobody taught me” is just a bad excuse. People always have opportunities and choices. How we respond to things depends on how we perceive them. There are many good and bad things in this world.
How Do We Practice Responsibility?
Those four responsibilities (oneself, society, economy, and environment) are difficult to practice. Yet one who practices will have a peaceful mind.
Freedom From Religion: Buddhism Wins Best Religion in the World Award
Responsibility? Why Do I Have to Have it?
What would society be like if husbands and wives ignored each other, parents and children ignored each other, teachers did not take responsibility for their students, employers ignored their employees, and monks ignored their teaching?
Target Character Trait # 2 : Responsibility for the human dignity of others
Bias because of desire [chandagati]; results in unjust treatment due to the influence of personal love and pleasure.
The Process of Engendering Responsibility
The problem is that no person is a perfect exemplar of all the qualities of a True Friend. It is therefore necessary to have tactical friendship starting with those around us
Personal Techniques
The first time when I began the Dhammakaya Meditation method : I was sitting on the floor on a 10cm high and round meditation cushion in the half lotus position or kneeling with my lower legs turned back.
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.
The Power of Personal Dhammakaya Image :- Mr. Wasana Thuanthong
Mr. Wasana Thuanthong, a Thai farmer, unveiled his experience about the power of merit from building the Personal Dhammakaya Images. He had been sick of the large intestine cancer and joined the medical trial, he is the only one who survive while the other eight participants passed away.
