Essay

 1    0|         Lay-follower~Thus spoke the Buddha:  ~    A lay-follower (upasaka)
 2    0| Dispensation of the Teaching of the Buddha, he strives for its strong
 3    0|          has gone for refuge to the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha. ~                                                                                                                                     -
 4    1|       number of his discourses, the Buddha has given practical guidance
 5    1|              is the Teaching of the Buddha as it affects the householder'
 6    1|       Social and Economic Aspects  ~Buddha was a rebel. He rebelled
 7    1|         nobility of conduct. As the Buddha stated:  ~Not by birth is
 8    1|       doctrine of anattã.  ~For the Buddha, all men are one in that
 9    1|            fraternity of men.  ~The Buddha's doctrine of equality does
10    1|    capability of humanity. Thus the Buddha's teaching of a classless
11    1|             of his character.  ~The Buddha was not only the first thinker
12    1|        stanza of the Dhammapada the Buddha declared the supremacy of
13    1|           the great teachers is the Buddha Gotama. It is through His
14    1|           wide, the Teaching of the Buddha in all its many aspects,
15    1|          the Teaching of Gotama the Buddha, Guide Incomparable to a
16    1|            Life  ~A follower of the Buddha learns to view life realistically
17    1|       Buddhist view himself? In the Buddha Dhamma, the human being
18    1|          hard, but made easier in a Buddha Era -- that is an age when
19    1|         this is the quintessence of Buddha's teaching   (b) Earning
20    1|    civilization such as ours.  ~The Buddha's teaching is a teaching
21    1|      affects its other aspects. The Buddha says that society, as with
22    1|          emphasise  the latter; the Buddha the former for an economic
23    1|  Maha-Mangala Sutta) has it. So the Buddha forbade five kinds of trade
24    1|            of others as well.  ~The Buddha further says that the progress,
25    1|          the Mahã Mangala Sutta the Buddha teaches us that:  ~Mother
26    1|          words and idle talk.  ~The Buddha's attitude towards stupefying
27    1|          who faithfully follows the Buddha's advice and abstains completely
28    1|           the Sigãlovãda Sutta, the Buddha explained to young Sigãla
29    1|             to life in the light of Buddha's teachings will, however,
30    1|          and minimising pain.  ~The Buddha names four kinds of lay
31    2|            trades a disciple of the Buddha cannot ply? And how can
32    2|      himself in the position of the Buddha's teachings, and to a large
33    2|             of livelihood which the Buddha prohibited to his lay followers,
34    2|         follow the teachings of the Buddha should avoid hunting and
35    2|          dedicated followers of the Buddha, and especially serious
36    2|           losing the essence of the Buddha's teaching. This is the
37    2|         task begins -- applying the Buddha's teachings at work. If
38    2|            first quotation from the Buddha. But Right Livelihood will
39    2|         sphere is summarized by the Buddha in a discourse on the householder'
40    2|        mindfulness mentioned by the Buddha here is not the same as
41    2|         take this injunction of the Buddha's as license to indulge
42    2|            is the Way taught by the Buddha that enables us to find
43    2|            of a lay-disciple of the Buddha, meditating while working
44    3|            the formula 'I go to the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha
45    3|        anything else. Man, said the Buddha, is a mere compound of five
46    3|          you can try to take up the Buddha's challenge and find it.  ~
47    3|           in one sense a dream. The Buddha was the Awakened One, and
48    3|           we need also to trust the Buddha as the teacher who has shown
49    3|           say 'I take refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha'
50    3|         subterfuges of the ego. The Buddha described it as 'the one
51    4|   fundamentally to rights. Even the Buddha did not show a method of