Meditation

Training Ourselves to Do More and More Acts of Goodness

Cloning has become a very popular issue. Scientists have been successful in cloning microbes, plants, and animals. But I am considering cloning of good habits, behaviors, and manners of good people.

Looking for Good Teachings

Good friends have more qualities of good people than bad friends. In order to create a peaceful mind and world, we need to search for and have many good friends.

Looking for Good Neighbors

Good environments for living do not only contain comfortable places, but they also need to contain good neighbors. Creating good neighbors might be more difficult than creating comfortable homes.

Meditation Instructions

Meditation is a state of ease, inner peace and happiness that we can bring into being, ourselves. It is a practice recommended by Buddhism for happiness,

Eating well

When I first arrived in Michigan in 1997 to pursue my Ph.D. degree, I had many things to do to adjust to the new place, culture, and study.

Looking for a Good Neighborhood

A good neighborhood is essential for living in peace. If our neighborhoods are noisy, dangerous, hot, do not have trees, and are crowded, we will not live in physical peace.

Being Responsible for the Environment

Besides, taking the three responsibilities: self, society, and ethical economy, good people are also responsible for the environment. Air, water, soil, forest, and weather are important for our living.

Reluctance to Work for a Living

Some people are reluctant to work because they are lazy. Their laziness may be an ingrained habit or they may have some problems.

Associating with Bad Friends

Bad friends lead us to bad lives. And many bad lives lead to irresponsible behavior, and irresponsibility often ruins the ethical economy in our society.

Gambling Do We Need It?

Do you want to marry a gambler? I may start with a question that seems funny, but I believe that I will get a “No” answer from most people. Most people do not like seeing others, misfortunes.

Seeing Bad Television Shows and Movies, Do We Need Them?

Bad shows create bad pictures and memories in our minds. Bad shows can generate anger, greed, and delusion in our minds. Bad words and bad deeds come from bad thoughts. Bad thoughts come from bad pictures in our minds.

Roaming the Streets at Night, Do We Need It?

People who wander at night have more chances of encountering danger. Somebody that roams the streets may become useless and increasingly reckless. Many people roam the streets to be social, to have fun, to meet men or women, escape boredom, to get away from home, and to avoid their parents.

Drinking Alcohol, Do We Need It?

I have heard many reasons for drinking: family problems, work problems, addiction, seductive advertising, society, health, curiosity, peer pressure, availability, and depression.

Being Responsible for an Economy

If more people did harm than those doing good, then our communities would be ruined and the balance of peace would be destroyed in our society. Harmful actions to an ethical economy may come from addictive behaviors. Addictions are never satisfied.

Preference Because of Fear

Some people will do unfair things because of fear. People’s minds are unclear and their thoughts are incorrect if they fear that they will lose their social position, money, job, fame, love, or power.

Prejudice Because of Ignorance

Sometimes when we hear something about someone, we judge that person solely by what we hear, not by what we know. We may make a decision about or wrongly because of misunderstandings. This mistake can lead to a lack of morals in our society.

Preference Because of Hate

“I do not like her because she always works very hard, stays late at the office every night, and then gets promotions. That makes me look bad to my boss.”

Partiality Because of Love

When we work in the same places as our relatives, close friends, and significant others, we may give them things that they do not deserve. This is a form of corruption beginning from our mind. If most people in society behaved with partiality, it would cause corruption in that society.

Being Responsible for Others in Society

As human beings, we have to live and work with others in society. We negatively affect society when we consider only what we want, what we like, and what we can accomplish.

Lying, Do We Need to Do It

Some people tell lies for many reasons; to make them feel grand, to fit into groups or to allay fears of getting into trouble and of disappointing someone.