Practice of Chastity#2
For married people, housewives and husbands should keep the Five Precepts, content only with their spouses, and do not betray the ones they are married with
Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta : The Sermon : The Dhammacakka : Transport to Nirvana
The word ‘cakka’ means a ‘wheel’ a wheel in just the same way as a cartwheel or a car wheel
Two ways to Express Respect
Physical Token of Respect This refers to a gift that is used as a way for us to express our respect to our parents
Good Friends Should...
Giving and forgiving is a key to making friendships and making relationships. There should be no resentment of any mistakes or misunderstandings occur in relationships.
Core Value # 8 : We are endebted to our father
This eighth form of core value indicates that a child acknowledges his or her debt of gratitude to his father. The debt of gratitude a person has tovards their father is the same as that they have towards their mother, i.e,:
Concepts for the instilling of Core Values
All that has been mentioned in the forgoing chapter are virtues which need to be instilled in the hearts of the people destined for self-improvement-because anyone with positive core values has the seeds of growing up into the sort of person for whom society is crying out.
Respect # 1
Respect means becoming aware of others’ virtue and truth, honouring their good deeds and appropriately expressing sincerity with modesty and courteousness whether or not you are in their presence
The Enlightenment of the Buddha’s First Disciple # 1
In preaching the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta, the Buddha revealed the Thirty-Seven Factors of Enlightenment [bodhipakkhiyadhamma],
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…”
How To Build The Habits Of The Children To Be Sincere And Clever (Mai Ngo)#2
People, after they are born as humans, whether they are a child or an adult, cannot observe who is a good person and who is a bad person because they are not clever (no common sense)
