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1 4 | DETACHMENT ~M. 0' C. Walshe ~~~One way of
2 2 | Sayings (Majjh.Nik.), III,pp. 118-19.~The fields of livelihood
3 2 | Sayings (Angutt. N.) III, p.153. ~And what, monks, is wrong
4 0 | Anguttara Nikaya, Fives, No. 175 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
5 2 | Majjh.Nik.), III,pp. 118-19.~The fields of livelihood
6 1(1)| Blond & Briggs, London, 1973), p. 48ff.: "Buddhist Economics". --
7 1 | and training. It is the 1iving expression of Buddhist brotherhood.. ~
8 0 | Anguttara, The Threes, No. 40. ~ ~ ~
9 1(1)| Briggs, London, 1973), p. 48ff.: "Buddhist Economics". --
10 1(1)| Economics (Bodhi Leaves No. B. 69). ~
11 3 | to do is to learn to see. A-VID-YA 'unwitting' or not seeing
12 1 | eternal soul or an immanent abiding principle (anattã). ~ ~
13 4 | aims. In Britain we have abolished capital punishment, rightly,
14 4 | activities. They often succeed in abolishing, or at least reducing, much
15 1 | layman, while aiming at absolute perfection occasionally
16 1 | thoughts or to an activity that absorbs you. ~(iii) Reflect on
17 1 | the Buddha's advice and abstains completely from the use
18 2 | inane his work is, or how absurd it is to put two pieces
19 1 | mind. To believe in such an absurdity is to create another source
20 4 | what particular evil or abuse he happens to pick on. What
21 2 | or slander -- 'office or academic politics' -- but keep clearly
22 2 | selling packaged meat is acceptable as there is no responsibility
23 3 | feeling of resistance to the acceptance of this point. If so, this
24 1 | It is simply a matter of accepting what one is, and deciding
25 1 | An understanding layman accepts dukkha as the results of
26 2 | decisions, a workman to avoid accidents, and a teacher to really
27 4 | into first jhãna, which is accompanied by initial and sustained
28 2 | means doing our best to accomplish the tasks before us -- without
29 2 | to one more strictly in accord with Right Livelihood can,
30 4 | craving all along the line. We accordingly have the simultaneous picture
31 4 | individual, not only on account of being multiplied, but
32 2 | behest, or to do the firm's accounts in the legally dubious way
33 1 | lay happiness, the mere accumulation of riches for their own
34 2 | the Householder" by Ven. Acharya Buddharakkhita, in Maha
35 1 | will only lead to unbridled acquisitiveness and self-indulgence resulting
36 1 | which I was born, in which I acted and reacted is more of my
37 4 | from life, but should be actively involved in it -- engagé
38 2 | we are engaged in daily activites, we would do well to keep
39 3 | very much one of social adaptation at not, perhaps, a very
40 1 | and poisons. These trades add to the already existing
41 1 | thought, no doer but deed - he added its social equivalent:
42 2 | to his students. ~ ~In addition to this mindfulness of external
43 0 | three dominant influences (adhipateyya), Dhamma being the third,
44 3 | about man is contingent or adjectival, not substantival. The further
45 1 | made. He must be happily adjusted to himself and the world,
46 1 | best of them. Successful adjustment to life in the light of
47 1 | full life four fundamental adjustments have to be made. He must
48 3 | the way of affection and admiration and sympathy or of more
49 4 | at least made one vital admission. He has in some measure
50 1 | including one's employees. ~ ~Adolescence is a period of stress and
51 1 | not easy for an unmarried adult to practise sexual self-restraint
52 3 | countries. We have to learn as adults what Eastern people have
53 1 | society. It is, therefore, an advance on many fronts - the economic,
54 3 | else fails, and it has the advantage of making us feel very holy.
55 1 | caste, class or race, and advocating to keep it dominant by the
56 3 | get, whether in the way of affection and admiration and sympathy
57 1 | illustrated by today's "affluent societies". The pursuit
58 1 | in the wrong, one cannot afford to be angry. Therefore,
59 4 | are even some who are so afraid of it that they go about
60 1 | Livelihood, and supporting aged parents. In Buddhism, however,
61 3 | things, the five khandhas or aggregates. He has a physical body,
62 1 | aspirations and ideals. If he is aggressive and assertive, he is also
63 3 | appearance of conceit and aggressiveness. Since Adler's psychology
64 4 | calm his own emotions he is aggrieved, thereby developing some
65 4 | others if you yourself are agitated. What has really happened
66 4 | significantly called an agitator. Now you can only agitate
67 3 | realised this, then you may agree that you find the formula '
68 4 | remain wholeheartedly in agreement with their aims. In Britain
69 1 | not merely go through life aimlessly; he goes, knowing clearly
70 3 | Buddhism is not something airy-fairy or romantic, it is practical.
71 1 | permanent is a profitless chase, akin to chasing one's shadow -
72 1 | as a rule, refrains from alcoholic drinks and drugs, but occasionally
73 3 | contribution made to psychology by Alfred Adler was his analysis of
74 3 | most ruthlessly gluttonous all-devouring monster there is, and yet
75 1 | fosters in us a feeling of all-embracing kindness and tolerance towards
76 4 | and conceit. It is not an 'all-or-nothing' situation, but a case of '
77 2 | productive of suffering. To alleviate dukkha one must live by
78 2 | of the carcasses is not allowed because this obviously implies
79 1 | merely notice then, without allowing yourself to be carried away
80 4 | enjoyment from it. We can try to alter what we see in some way
81 2 | this situation cannot be altered by discussion with the employer,
82 2 | them because we will be alternating mind-moments of mindfulness
83 1 | non-alcoholic drink; or alternatively, he could take the unwanted
84 | although
85 2 | rest of the time there is ample scope for him to work wisely,
86 4 | observe ourselves with ironic amusement. By so doing we may suddenly
87 1 | welfare of living beings - anãkulã ca kammantã, "a peaceful
88 2 | the anicca feelings, or of ãnãpãna (mindfulness of breathing)
89 3 | all schools of Buddhism is ãnãpãnasati or mindfulness on breathing.
90 3 | and cause us all kinds of anguish. Buddhism offers a way out
91 2 | Gradual Sayings (Angutt. N.) III, p.153. ~And what,
92 1 | different (naca so naca añño) but only a continuity;
93 2 | people. So if the boss gets annoyed and shouts at us, we remind
94 3 | course of Buddhism? The answers will vary a great deal,
95 1 | darkens our lives. It is anticipation of deprivations. One tries
96 1 | frees himself from fears, anxieties and many other heavy burdens.
97 1 | detachment, standing as it were apart from them. In this way,
98 3 | over-compensate and present an appearance of conceit and aggressiveness.
99 4 | by initial and sustained application (vitakka-vicãra), is born
100 1 | tension and irritability, and appreciably increase social good, stability
101 1 | living. So it is easy to appreciate why we should be at least
102 3 | is its seemingly negative approach. In the Mahãyãna schools
103 1 | lapses, and is content with approximations, he is free to do so - but
104 2 | the meditator succeeds in appying sîla (morality), samãdhi (
105 2 | trading, by rearing cattle, by archery, by service under the king,
106 3 | they are. There are large areas of experience which we would
107 4 | it. Now I am not going to argue that such people -- let
108 4 | about -- 'escapism'. Their argument is of course a very simple
109 1 | dassana). All things that have arisen, including the so-called
110 2 | birth? Herein monks, an ariyan disciple, by getting rid
111 2 | collected by the strength of his arm, by the sweat of his brow,
112 2 | example, only rarely does an army officer serve in combat --
113 1 | artificial wants, often by arousing and stimulating the undesirable
114 2 | and means; he is able to arrange and carry out duties. This
115 1 | oneself by perfecting the art of living is the noblest
116 1 | intensification and multiplication of artificial wants, often by arousing
117 4 | fundamentally on a system of artificially stimulated craving all along
118 2 | fears for the future. ~An artist or mechanic or craftsman
119 1 | moves upwards or downwards, ascends or descends, for each one
120 4 | difficult. We must not be ashamed to admit to ourselves (if
121 3 | we become aware of being asleep and want to wake up. Eventually
122 1 | the great Indian Emperor Asoka, when Buddhism became the
123 2 | pieces into a car on an assembly line for eight hours a day,
124 1 | If he is aggressive and assertive, he is also co-operative
125 1 | sex and society. Thus it assists him in the business of living,
126 2 | lying, stealing and the associated forms of wrong speech and
127 2 | arouse all previous thought associations and our deep-seated conditionings
128 3 | Noble Eightfold Path. I am assuming that, having 'taken the
129 3 | insecurity complex, for such an assumption certainly explains a great
130 1 | network of social services assuring to every member of the community,
131 4 | tension so that in a calmer atmosphere wiser counsels may have
132 0 | Dhamma being the third, after atta (self) and loka (world);
133 3 | have to give up all our attachments to attain it, and that is
134 3 | up all our attachments to attain it, and that is too high
135 1 | Man synonymous with the attainment of Nibbãna in this very
136 1 | also the first humanist who attempted to abolish slavery, in which
137 2 | to anyone in any task he attempts. The meditator will find
138 0 | of support and does not attend there first. ~ -
139 1 | births and deaths, with their attendant frustrations, disappointments
140 3 | can manage, with undivided attention. This is the surest way
141 1 | that they are physically attracted at any time. ~ ~Sex is
142 1 | to become unconscious or automatic habits. They, in turn, whether
143 1 | will be of little or no avail. Real happiness and security
144 1 | reflect it. So, the Buddhist avoids killing living beings, stealing,
145 3 | dream. The Buddha was the Awakened One, and our normal state
146 3 | Buddhism is Enlightenment or Awakening or Nirvana, the Deathless
147 2 | the tradition of Sayaji U Ba Khin), we have acquired
148 2 | all those in which lying, backbiting or harming of others would
149 3 | West, where we have not the background of Buddhist thought which
150 2 | drugs which are harmful to bacteria and viruses, not because
151 1 | community, as a right, and as a badge of citizenship and fellowship,
152 3 | ego-reactions. We want so badly to have a 'self' and we
153 2 | Here the good more than balances the bad. But if we go about
154 1 | and empty - as hollow as a bamboo when split. The result is
155 1 | moral qualities. Under their baneful effects, mind becomes confused,
156 2 | sits back and does only the barest minimum required of him,
157 1 | himself from the thralldom of base desire, the blindness of
158 3 | thing is to get down to basics. If we ask where these basic
159 1 | Perfect Man - not a perfect beast. And a start has to be made
160 1(1)| F.S. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful. (Blond & Briggs, London,
161 1 | teaches with incomparable beauty: ~Sabba pãpassa akaranam, ~
162 | became
163 2 | Working on someone else's beef ranch or selling packaged
164 1 | proportion to the sowing. Good begets good and evil, evil. Kamma
165 2 | the more long range task begins -- applying the Buddha's
166 3 | within the last year or so, begun to take Buddhism seriously
167 2 | exaggerate a bit at the boss's behest, or to do the firm's accounts
168 3 | and which prevents us from believing wholeheartedly in anything
169 4 | disparage these people or belittle their efforts, but merely
170 2 | inertia that comes of a belligerant mind which thinks itself
171 3 | that 'has no mouth and no belly, yet gobbles up the entire
172 | below
173 1 | whose will he must blindly bend nor by parents, for the
174 1 | individual, and therefore benefiting the community as well. ~ ~
175 1 | youth to work for social betterment out of natural sympathy
176 1 | of no being but becoming (bhava), no thinker but thought,
177 1 | doors and meditation. ~Bhãvãnã, or meditation is the systematic
178 1 | things as it truly is (yathã bhûtã ñãna dassana). All things
179 2 | with the vibrations of a big city or the workplace, where
180 3 | stand in the light. Now the biggest emotional blockage we have
181 1 | therewith, freedom from repeated births and deaths, with their attendant
182 3 | It is being deaf to the blandishments of the hidden persuaders
183 1 | lives purposefully, who blesses the world with wealth and
184 1 | unconflicting, ~This, the Highest Blessing. ~The essentials of happy
185 1 | occupation", as the Discourse on Blessings (Maha-Mangala Sutta) has
186 1 | Deity to whose will he must blindly bend nor by parents, for
187 3 | Now the biggest emotional blockage we have is that which surrounds
188 1(1)| Schumacher, Small is Beautiful. (Blond & Briggs, London, 1973),
189 2 | outdoors, white collar or blue collar or neither. If the
190 1 | to make it dull and blunt, is to partake of intoxicating
191 4 | to think they can become Bodhisattvas and 'liberate all beings'
192 3 | make a single voluntary bodily movement during that time,
193 1 | PRINCIPLES OF LAY BUDDHISM ~R. Bogoda ~
194 3 | may indulge in is a way of bolstering up the ego, whether in cruder
195 2 | attachment to them that is the bondage that must be eliminated.
196 3 | varieties. There are numerous books about most of them. Unguided
197 1 | holiday which is the hell of boredom. ~A large part of our waking
198 2 | matter how difficult, or how boring, or how exhausting the tasks
199 1 | standards for the many at the bottom, and their impact and influence
200 3 | the ebb and flow of your breath without interfering and,
201 1(1)| Small is Beautiful. (Blond & Briggs, London, 1973), p. 48ff.: "
202 2 | Right Livelihood -- how broad is the category of trades
203 1 | choices or decisions between, broadly speaking, skilful (kusala)
204 3 | the power of ignorance is broken by knowledge, which is seeing
205 1 | father, mother, sister, brother or guardian, including one'
206 1 | 1iving expression of Buddhist brotherhood.. ~The cultivation or the
207 2 | arm, by the sweat of his brow, justly acquired by right
208 4 | man with furiously knitted brows and a wet towel round his
209 4 | sacittapariyodapanam _ etam Buddãna sãsanam.~'Cease to do evil,
210 1 | Sacittapariyodãpanam ~etam Buddhãnusãsanam. ~To avoid evil, ~To do
211 2 | Householder" by Ven. Acharya Buddharakkhita, in Maha Bodhi, January
212 2 | not because he hates the 'bugs', but in order to help cure
213 4 | find a way of reducing the build-up of emotional tension so
214 1 | strives to achieve this by building his life on the foundation
215 2 | liberality) and other virtues as Burmese fishermen do even if it
216 2 | may not steal it, nor fire burn it, nor water carry it off,
217 1 | preoccupied with the business (or, busy-mess, to be more accurate) of
218 1 | pleasure. that money can buy, power over others, fame
219 3 | irrelevancies, interesting by-paths, plausible excuses or pseudo-mystical
220 2 | but this watchfulness is a by-product of mindfulness important
221 4 | emotions are nothing but by-products of this tension, caused
222 3 | Clearing up our mental muddle calls for increased self-knowledge,
223 4 | emotional tension so that in a calmer atmosphere wiser counsels
224 1 | the womb from which one came nor the societal class into
225 3 | the rich man who, like the camel, cannot pass through the
226 1 | a workshop or a military camp, but it is the cultivation
227 4 | reintroduction. Those who campaign for this even claim to be
228 4 | always stand aloof from such campaigns as the -- now -- rather
229 1 | performance, and by the candid comments of sincere friends.
230 2 | mode of livelihood that has cankers, that is on the side of
231 3 | the answer is in the Pali Canon of the Theravãda school.
232 1 | underestimating one's capacities and capabilities. One must also take care
233 1 | the common capacity and capability of humanity. Thus the Buddha'
234 1 | nor underestimating one's capacities and capabilities. One must
235 1 | perfection, in view of the common capacity and capability of humanity.
236 2 | that may be made of the carcasses is not allowed because this
237 1 | The message they bring carries with it the indelible stamp
238 1 | human being in the onwards carrying stream of Buddhist ideas
239 1 | species. Social classes and castes are nothing but functional
240 3 | where they come from, to catch them at the very moment
241 2 | by trading, by rearing cattle, by archery, by service
242 2 | must not let ourselves get caught up in the businessman's
243 3 | not a simple formula of 'causation', but rather of conditioning.
244 4 | etam Buddãna sãsanam.~'Cease to do evil, learn to do
245 3 | popularly imagined, but ceasing to deceive ourselves. ~
246 1 | middle steps. Above are the celestial worlds of bliss, below the
247 1 | becomes an Anãgãmi, he leads a celibate life. ~ ~But sexual behaviour,
248 1 | for the mere fusing of two cells from mother and father does
249 1 | nothing truly firm. ~ ~The central problem of a lay Buddhist
250 0 | Questions of King Milinda, Ch. IV ~* That is, he
251 4 | that even this much of the chain of events may be fairly
252 3 | to take up the Buddha's challenge and find it. ~There may
253 2 | circumstances, and some of the more challenging situations we will come
254 4 | difficult to see that the chances of gaining control of any
255 2 | recondition the mind to operate in channels based on wisdom, by reminding
256 1 | shall supplant privilege and chaos. But reform must take place
257 1 | mould robbers, soldiers, chaplains, kings.~What matters then
258 3 | ought to be some general characteristics and some problems common
259 3 | expense-account johnnie, the take-over charlie: he is anybody who has too
260 1 | on such lines results in charm, tact and tolerance - essential
261 3 | Buddhism? We need to have a chart and compass to help us on
262 1 | permanent is a profitless chase, akin to chasing one's shadow -
263 1 | profitless chase, akin to chasing one's shadow - the faster
264 0 | and words; ~He loves and cherishes peace and concord; He
265 1 | Wife and children duly cherishing, ~Types of work unconflicting, ~
266 1(3)| and literature which are chiefly intended to provoke sexual
267 1 | of another - a potential child. And children born of premarital
268 3 | entire world' (as some old Chinese monk might have said, but
269 3 | the rich young man to whom Christ said 'Sell all that thou
270 4 | that a Buddhist -- or a Christian -- should be able to feel
271 3 | round and round the weary circle of rebirths, and how karma
272 1 | education, without which a citizen cannot realise his humanity
273 1 | right, and as a badge of citizenship and fellowship, the essentials
274 3 | desirable thing. Buddhism claims to he a way of attaining
275 1 | live his daily life. It clarifies what his attitude should
276 1 | belong to one species. Social classes and castes are nothing but
277 1 | the Buddha's teaching of a classless society requires the progressive
278 3 | strengthen our will to persevere. Clearing up our mental muddle calls
279 2 | of merit that ripens unto cleaving to a new birth? Herein monks,
280 2 | aversion so we have to keep a close watch on our reactions if
281 1 | the body -- pure food, clothing, shelter and medicine. Corresponding
282 1 | strong enough to follow, cluster around and become willing
283 1 | is tanha or craving. They co-exist, just as the heat and light
284 1 | and assertive, he is also co-operative and creative. He is for
285 2 | our relationships with our co-workers, the various conditions
286 2 | applying poison to ratholes and cockroaches' hideouts with anger or
287 1 | of conduct, supported by cogent reasons, by which be should
288 3 | own reactions, being fully cognisant of what one is about all
289 1 | the two sides of the same coin, life. The opposite of life
290 2 | obtained by work and zeal, collected by the strength of his arm,
291 1 | projection or extension of the collective personality of its members. ~
292 1(1)| Buddhist Information Centre, Colombo, 1976).--Dr. Padmasiri de
293 1 | all, regardless of caste, colour or class. In His teaching
294 2 | an army officer serve in combat -- the rest of the time
295 4 | overcome these weaknesses'. Combined with, for instance, sexual
296 1 | oneself and one's family in comfort. Conservation and improvement
297 3 | Sangha for refuge' strangely comforting. And so it should be in
298 2 | the aversion to work keeps coming up, never mind, just observe
299 2 | way, giving the necessary commands without being overly harsh.
300 1 | performance, and by the candid comments of sincere friends. Seeing
301 2 | perform of bringing our commodity to the consumer, but we
302 2 | and a teacher to really communicate information to his students. ~ ~
303 4 | as these (and this is a comparatively mild example, in the world
304 1 | should therefore, avoid comparing himself with others. Such
305 1 | others. Such profitless comparison can only lead to unnecessary
306 3 | need to have a chart and compass to help us on our way. But
307 2 | conditionings of greed, competition and aversion; (3) so many
308 1 | that He founded - a fitting complement to the doctrine of anattã. ~
309 2 | and perhaps inadequately completed. As the mind is trained
310 3 | said the Buddha, is a mere compound of five things, the five
311 1 | suitable fiscal policy and a comprehensive network of social services
312 1 | however, marriage is not a compulsory institution for all lay
313 1 | impermanent and pain-laden cannot conceal within it anything that
314 1 | of democracy. ~Buddhism concedes that the economic environment
315 1 | he may become proud and conceited and develop a superior feeling -
316 3 | and disloyalty of every conceivable kind. Until we have found
317 1 | it is sometimes wrongly conceived. In a large number of his
318 2 | less and less difficulty concentrating on what has to be done at
319 2 | waking hours involved in the concerns of his firm means that he
320 0 | and cherishes peace and concord; He is not envious or
321 4 | detachment. So let us take a concrete example: one where the crusaders
322 2 | associations and our deep-seated conditionings of greed, competition and
323 4 | goes a long way towards confirming the Buddhist analysis of
324 4 | see in some way to make it conform more to our idea of what
325 2 | concentration and wisdom when we are confronted with the vibrations of a
326 2 | be growing in Dhamma by confronting our mind's opposing tendencies;
327 1 | recklessness and mental confusion. Alcohol does impair the
328 1 | and act according to his conscience irrespective of the social
329 1 | hereafter. That is to say, consequences follow causes whether one
330 1 | one's family in comfort. Conservation and improvement of one's
331 1 | need; employers must be considerate to their employees, give
332 0 | before self and worldly considerations; this refers to the three
333 2 | last indefinitely, nor of considering them as a personal possession
334 3 | everybody's ego practically consists of an inferiority or insecurity
335 3 | Martyrdom is in fact the last consolation of a disappointed ego. And
336 2 | his firm means that he is consumed with some strong tanhã either
337 2 | bringing our commodity to the consumer, but we must not let ourselves
338 1 | energised by tanhã or craving, containing immense possibilities for
339 2 | hand. Meditators engaged in contemplating the feelings (vedanãnupassanã)
340 1 | eludes. True happiness, contentment and harmony come from an
341 4 | up fully to some of the contents of one's unconscious may
342 3 | everything about man is contingent or adjectival, not substantival.
343 2 | with wisdom, we will be continually digging deeper mental ruts
344 4 | dukkha and ensuring its continuance. But creatures of habit
345 2 | increased mundane profit and continue to grow in pãññã (wisdom)
346 2 | of dukkha -- we will be continuing to generate more and more
347 1 | so naca añño) but only a continuity; that is to say, each succeeding
348 4 | thereby, incidentally, contradicting the notion that it is 'easy'.
349 1 | and peace of Nibbãna, in contrast to the restlessness and
350 2 | Mindfulness and Concentration will contribute greatly to our success in
351 1 | to those around him. He controls his deeds and words by following
352 4 | causes they believe in, are convinced that they do so out of love
353 4 | to regard the situation coolly and simply learn not to
354 4 | necessay precondition for coping with the world. It is absolutely
355 1 | They should be the four cornerstones of genuine lay Buddhist
356 2 | client's situation will be correspondingly increased as his concentration
357 4 | bringing this about - and if he couldn't find a way, it is unlikely
358 4 | calmer atmosphere wiser counsels may have a chance to prevail.
359 1 | from it will be a powerful counter-force against sexual desires. ~
360 3 | which exists in Eastern countries. We have to learn as adults
361 2 | factory, in the city or country, whether it is indoors or
362 1 | life and the world brings courage and confidence. ~How does
363 1 | slandering, harsh speech, gossip, covetousness, ill-will and false views.
364 2 | or by any other kind of craft, at that he becomes skilful
365 2 | An artist or mechanic or craftsman is much better at his creating
366 3 | soon find that we do indeed crave for it. The obvious reason
367 1 | things, dominates them, creates them" (Mano pubbangamadhammã
368 4 | ensuring its continuance. But creatures of habit as we are, we are
369 3 | we usually want a lot of credit for not wanting some of
370 4 | though the increase in crime in recent years has led
371 4 | of the oppressor or the criminal, is not really the right
372 2 | and order and dealing with criminals and the general public with
373 1 | can resist the pull of the crowd when necessary. He is ever
374 3 | bolstering up the ego, whether in cruder or subtle form. The large
375 1 | beings and keeps us away from cruelty, hate, and conflict. ~ ~
376 4 | moment. It is not for our crusading friends to disparage those
377 1 | progress, and therefore, to be cultivated again and again in one's
378 4 | fact keep aloof from the current problems that happen to
379 2 | in our dealings with our customers and avoid all "trickery,
380 4 | that there is a need to cut these down as much as possible.
381 3 | an instrument capable of cutting through the veils of ego-created
382 1 | a goal worth winning. ~(d) Social Relationships
383 1 | understands the inherent danger in expecting to find permanence
384 4 | strong it is a particularly dangerous obstacle to progress. Conceit
385 1 | is a common emotion that darkens our lives. It is anticipation
386 1 | truly is (yathã bhûtã ñãna dassana). All things that have arisen,
387 1(1)| Colombo, 1976).--Dr. Padmasiri de Silva, Buddhist Economics (
388 4 | ourselves that we once took with deadly seriousness are in fact
389 3 | desires within us. It is being deaf to the blandishments of
390 2 | scrupulously honest in our dealings with our customers and avoid
391 4 | us, and they can only be dealt with in and by each one
392 1 | from repeated births and deaths, with their attendant frustrations,
393 2 | work. Anicca, change and decay, is inherent in all phenomena,
394 3 | imagined, but ceasing to deceive ourselves. ~Fundamentally,
395 0 | Buddhist life by way of deception or hypocrisy; ~He has gone
396 1 | position in this world will be decided by one's efforts And every
397 1 | accepting what one is, and deciding to make the most of oneself.
398 1 | the Dhammapada the Buddha declared the supremacy of mind over
399 1 | but thought, no doer but deed - he added its social equivalent:
400 4 | dissatisfaction each one of us has deep down inside. All this, of
401 2 | thought associations and our deep-seated conditionings of greed,
402 2 | means to be overcome by the defilement of sloth and torpor, and
403 1 | inferior feeling - of a deflated "I", and to withdraw from
404 1 | thrust on him by an unseen Deity to whose will he must blindly
405 1 | of such thoughts without delay; when they tend to arise,
406 4 | see something, a form of deliberate (even though 'unconscious')
407 1 | finds himself placed in a delicate situation such as when offered
408 1 | often develop into juvenile delinquents. Besides, pre-marital sex
409 4 | who told his pupils 'to deliver an infinite number of sentient
410 1 | Such a society will be both democratic and socialistic, with liberty,
411 1 | influences character, but denies that it determines it. A
412 3 | be neglected. Those who deny its necessity do so usually
413 4 | course quite different from denying that they are there at all.
414 1 | lives. It is anticipation of deprivations. One tries to live in two
415 1 | nobody and nothing else can deprive one of. Why then go to pieces
416 1 | premarital relations when deprived and unwanted, often develop
417 2 | great deal to do with the depth of the kamma being created.
418 1 | practice, the happiness derived from it will be a powerful
419 1 | or downwards, ascends or descends, for each one is evolved
420 3 | subterfuges of the ego. The Buddha described it as 'the one and only
421 2 | concentration on what the client describes is improved -- he cannot
422 4 | instance, in the formula describing how one enters the first ]
423 1 | gets precisely what one deserves, even as the sum of two
424 3 | The large car which seems designed to look as wide as possible
425 4 | opportunities for being destructive than is it used to have.
426 4 | they are things we can detach our minds from temporarily
427 2 | determine for himself the details of how to work out the livelihood
428 1 | character, but denies that it determines it. A person can use his
429 1 | gain a living by methods detrimental to the welfare of living
430 3 | later, so-called Mahãyãna developments are there in this basic
431 1 | mind that even a single deviation from the ideal of total
432 3 | to look for an external devil: the Father of Lies is within
433 3 | world. One could usefully devote a good deal of time meditating
434 2 | the day that is apparently devoted to non-Dhamma work, and
435 4 | before, with only one slight difference: 'I' am not fully in the
436 2 | will have less and less difficulty concentrating on what has
437 2 | we will be continually digging deeper mental ruts that
438 2 | us on the job. ~Herein, Dighajanu, whatsoever wealth a householder
439 2 | life to the lay disciple Dighjanu (quoted in "Meditation and
440 1 | treated equally with human dignity, and given an equal chance
441 1 | and pupils in turn must be diligent and dutiful; a husband should
442 2 | force of our reactions does diminish. So when our superior yells
443 1 | without which one's vision is dimmed and the way is lost, all
444 2 | constantly running off in various directions towards irrelevant objects,
445 1 | frustration and disappointment, dis-ease and an irritating sense
446 2 | one's statements or omit disadvantageous facts, even if one does
447 1 | mind, reason retreats, or disappears, and we often do things
448 3 | the last consolation of a disappointed ego. And the hall-mark of
449 1 | result is frustration and disappointment, dis-ease and an irritating
450 1 | one's personal belief or disbelief in the force of gravity. ~ ~
451 1 | potential disappointments. So, a discerning lay Buddhist is not unduly
452 1 | controlled, the will is disciplined, and the instinctive energies
453 1 | holy men who in turn should discourage them to do evil, encourage
454 3 | away that you should not be discouraged. This is quite the normal
455 4 | healthier than one that discourages or represses their activities.
456 1 | and steady effort - rather discouraging, no doubt, to many people
457 1 | In a large number of his discourses, the Buddha has given practical
458 1 | essential. Such a person soon discovers that to need less is to
459 3 | active force which opposes discovery of the truth at every turn.
460 2 | seems to require chronic dishonesty in speech or action, and
461 1 | gain and loss, honour and dishonour, praise and blame, pleasure
462 1 | likelihood of stagnation and disinclination to further effort and progress. ~
463 3 | rage, sadism, treachery and disloyalty of every conceivable kind.
464 4 | about them. Then we probably dismiss the whole problem with the
465 0 | he sees a decline in the Dispensation of the Teaching of the Buddha,
466 1 | only tool he has at his disposal to achieve both of these
467 2 | sides in many a workplace dispute -- and in such a role we
468 0 | growth; ~He has right views, disregarding belief in superstitions
469 4 | mindfulness he can gradually dissolve it. And the same applies,
470 2 | is beneficial to all to dissuade other workers from stealing
471 1 | present existence, while his distant objective is the lasting
472 4 | situation. There may even be a distinct feeling of puzzlement as
473 2 | Dhamma practise - a complete distortion of the real purpose of Dhamma --
474 2 | to be detached from, not distracted by, the pleasure and pains
475 1 | such a system production, distribution and values take a different
476 4 | or too excited, or we may dither in a state of indecision
477 2 | Right Understanding (sammã ditt hi) also requires a basic
478 1 | or hobbies or sports can divert the mind and provide suitable
479 1 | sublimating the instinct by diverting the energy in the sex impulse
480 1 | how one shall be born, dividing beings into inferior or
481 1 | ill-will and false views. This division of actions is a natural
482 1 | thinker but thought, no doer but deed - he added its
483 3 | that they can and should dominate the mind and give it direction.
484 4 | state of mind is probably dominated by uddhacca-kukkucca 'restlessness
485 1 | share of life's ups and downs. ~He looks at life's events
486 1 | choice, one moves upwards or downwards, ascends or descends, for
487 1(1)| Centre, Colombo, 1976).--Dr. Padmasiri de Silva, Buddhist
488 1 | the ideal has the power of drawing out all one's instinctive
489 1 | Eightfold Path. Such a plan when drawn up will include all important
490 4 | individually. Now it may be very dreadful, but so far nobody has found
491 3 | know it is in one sense a dream. The Buddha was the Awakened
492 4 | destruction than were ever dreamed of before. The fact that
493 3 | as if really they were dreaming and would soon wake up.
494 1 | becomes confused, and the drinker finds it difficult to distinguish
495 1 | the right direction and drive. A thoughtful lay Buddhist
496 2 | and their larvae, a truck driver may sometimes have to transport
497 3 | It is beyond the realm of duality, which is that of subject
498 2 | accounts in the legally dubious way they have always been
499 2 | perfect work -- part of the dukhha of the householder's life
500 1 | instrument - to make it dull and blunt, is to partake