4 self เพื่อพัฒนาตนเอง

1. self Awareness รู้จักตนเอง มีความฝัน มีเป้าหมายชีวิตที่ชัดเจน 2. self Discipline มีวินัยในตนเอง 3. self Improvement การปรับปรุงตนสอนตนเองฝึกตนเอง ดูว่าตัวเราจะต้องพัฒนาในจุดใดบ้าง ต้องหาความรู้เพิ่มเติมตลอดเวลาในเรื่องที่เราต้องการจะพัฒนา...

Overview : 2. The Path of Self-Mortification

According to the Buddha, the practice of self-mortification [attakilamathanuyoga] is fruitless

Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta: The Sermon : 2. Self-Mortification [attakilamathanuyoga]

This is the practice of self-denial or self-mortification which is a non-Buddhist practice. It is one of many practices favoured by non-Buddhist ascetics such as Niganthas

The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering # 6

The Three Signs of Existence [tilakkhana] that are exhibited by all material things are impermanence [aniccam], suffering [dukkham] and not –self [anatta]

Self-Discipline in allocating one’s earnings

The Lord Buddha not only taught scrupulous ethics for earning a living, but also how earnings should be allocated so that one can live without financial problems

The Universal Sentiment Expressed

People may have external differences, but their innermost self is the same. It is the similarities that transcend their differences.

True Happiness and Inner Peace

Meditation is aimed for peace and happiness. The real nature of meditation is the lesson learned by experience, by the feeling inside or by the inner self.

Ways in which we can help our self not to mix with fools:

Be continually aware of not behaving with negative actions or speech however minor, as there is always a risk that they can lead to bigger things if we are not careful

Overview : 3. The Middle Way

The Middle Way [majjhima patipada] is a path of practice that avoids the extremes of either sensual indulgence or self-mortification

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…”