ซีรีย์ Meditation for Beginners

Core Value # 3: Virtue should be honoured

This sort of view advocates any form of practice which praises pr honours the virtues of others. To give some examples:

Core Value # 4: That good & bad actions have karmic results

This fourth sort of core value implies that a person takes responsibility for the effects towards themselves and others of their own actions, It implies thaat a person assumes that the law of cause and effect is in force in their lives.

Core Value # 5 : The real existence of the ‘world’

The term ‘world’ in Buddhist terminology means more than just our planet. It means:

Core Value # 6: There is life after death

This core value surmises the continuity of life after death. Life does not simply cease when we die. Only the physical body will decompose, but our spirit will comtinue its journey. This view is shared in one way or another by nearly every form of organized religion.

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.

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,:

Core Value # 9 : Spontaneously arising beings exist

This ninth form of core value is acceptance of the existence of spontaneously arising beings-beings which arise not because of their parents but as the result of karmic action they have committed themselves in the past.

Core Value # 10: Wise enlightened ones exist

If someone whose mind has been illuminated by a proper understanding of the nine previous sorts of core value has the chance to meet up with a wise ‘good friend ‘ [kalyanamitta], they will appreciate how the level of illumination in their ownn mind has increased as the result of behaviour.

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.

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.

Primitive Belief

People have to face a mixture of happiness and suffering throughout their lives. It is likely that the proportion of suffering usually exceeds happiness.

The Origin of the Singalovada Sutta

Once upon a time, there was young man named Singala who was extremely arrogant. Singala did not listen to his parents’ advice despite the fact they were already enlightened beings-thus he had no idea of right or wrong.

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…”

Target Character Trait # 1: Responsibility for ones own human dignity

The first three defilements of actions are physical evil action. The fourth is verbal evil action. The fourth is verbal evil action.

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.