Cherishing One, s Children.
One day we must grow old and die. What we really need each moment is delight, and exaltation to clear and freshen our minds.
Artfulness In conduct
A sharpened knife without a sheath or a dangerous bomb without a safety bolt: they could be equally advantageous or disadvantageous depending, because of their lack of a controlling mechanism.
The Relationship of Core Values to the Eightfold Path
Positive Core Values, or ‘Right View’ as it is called in Buddhism, will motivate one to practise in unhesitating accordance with the teachings of spirituality, our creativity and life assumptions corresponding more and more to the guidelines of the spiritual purity.
Core Value # 7 : We are endebted to our mother
This seventh form of core value indicates that a person acknowledges hos or her debr of gratitude to his mother.
Not Leaving One’s Work Undone.
It’s inevitable for us to avoid our life’s duties since we were bom starting from our duties as children, as brothers, as sisters, as pupils, as people, as husbands, as wives, as parents, as monks, as nuns, as leaders, as slaves, etc.
Core Value#1: Sharing is desirable
This is an attitude to the world which sees the importance of sharing what one has with others, whether it be the things we eat, the things we use, our time, our knowledge or a helping hand, It doesn’t mean that everything needs to be equally shared, but it means that a person shouldn’t believe that it ought to be ‘every man to himself’.
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.
We Need Good Faith
Faith is a major component of training ourselves to be good or bad. When we have good faith, it keeps us doing good. When we have bad faith, it causes us to do bad.
Goal in This Life
People should have clear goals in their lives. When we have good goals to accomplish, we will not waste our time and life doing other useless things.
The Harm of Mental Defilements
The Lord Buddha stresses that the three categories of defilement: greed, hatred and delusion are like usurpers in the mind. They darken our minds and obstruct us from enlightenment.
