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501 2 | householder's life is full of dust", and few positions for
502 1 | turn must be diligent and dutiful; a husband should be kind,
503 1(1)| See E.F.S. Schumacher, Small is
504 2 | determine how much merit is earned. Material possessions in
505 1 | being is hard, but made easier in a Buddha Era -- that
506 3 | money, power, nice things to eat and drink and smell and
507 1 | suitable outlets. Moderation in eating is helpful. But what is
508 3 | breathing. Just watch the ebb and flow of your breath
509 1 | efficient, industrious and economical in the performance of her
510 1 | people as well as on its economy. An economic system based
511 1 | children, and guide and educate them; children have to respect
512 1 | return, must work honestly, efficiently and be loyal to their masters;
513 3 | is as much an example of ego-boosting as the padded shoulders
514 3 | cutting through the veils of ego-created illusion. The last of the
515 3 | that which surrounds the ego-idea. Since it is to the ultimate
516 3 | the basis of our habitual ego-reactions. We want so badly to have
517 1 | lay Buddhist is not unduly elated nor upset by the eight worldly
518 2 | THE WORKING LIFE ~Susan Elbaum Jootla ~The question of
519 4 | the particular cause he elects to take up? What really
520 1 | the undesirable and lower elements of human nature, and that
521 1 | therefore, improve and elevate the character of a person.
522 1 | is trivial. He tries to eliminate the non - essential and
523 4 | their efforts, but merely to elucidate something of their attitude
524 1 | one runs, the faster it eludes. True happiness, contentment
525 1 | and harmony come from an emancipated mind. Any economic system
526 1 | succeeding birth depends upon, or emerges from, the preceding one.
527 1 | kamma. ~That Buddhism is eminently practicable is clearly shown
528 1 | and desires. Some systems emphasise the latter; the Buddha
529 4 | and it should be strongly emphasised that progress is in stages.
530 2 | On the other hand, the employee who sees how inane his work
531 1 | meaning and interest, besides enabling one to support oneself and
532 3 | who has too many mental encumbrances, too many wants. ~Here
533 1 | themselves but as means to an end-the full development of man
534 2 | skilful and tireless. He is endowed with the power of discernment
535 1 | the moment of conception, endowing the new life with initial
536 2 | kind of happiness that can endure -- no matter what vicissitudes
537 1 | disciplined, and the instinctive energies are diverted from their
538 1 | conflux of mind and matter energised by tanhã or craving, containing
539 4 | actively involved in it -- engagé as the French say. For them,
540 3 | those readily available in English, are voluminous. There is
541 2 | improved concentration in enhancing our performance at work.
542 4 | detachment actually enables us to enjoy our own dukkha! ~~~ ~ ~
543 0 | the Dhamma first;** He enjoys giving according to his
544 1 | Work should serve men, not enslave him. He should not be so
545 3 | awareness. There is no separate entity behind it which is aware.
546 1 | even as an exit is also an entrance. Each subsequent individual
547 0 | and concord; He is not envious or jealous; ~He does not
548 1 | stands for a society of equals, in which justice and ethical
549 1 | made easier in a Buddha Era -- that is an age when His
550 2 | of the Dhamma life -- to eradicate the causes of one's own
551 1 | controlled and finally totally eradicated. This happiness2 arises
552 2 | blame others for our own errors. If we are running our own
553 2 | aspect of his life. In this essay an attempt is made simply
554 2 | course. Once we become fairly established in the tradition of vedanãnupassanã (
555 2 | workers from stealing from the establishment, "liberating " materials
556 1 | rational basis for such an ethic, namely, evolution in terms
557 1 | equals, in which justice and ethical principles shall supplant
558 2 | morning and an hour in the evening is making a farce of Dhamma --
559 3 | asleep and want to wake up. Eventually we succeed, but it is often
560 1 | impersonal combination of ever-changing mind and matter. In the
561 1 | dead. What remains is the everpresent now, not even the future
562 1 | play an important part in everyday life. So instead of keeping
563 | everyone
564 2 | should be applied also to eveyday life - including our work. ~
565 1 | descends, for each one is evolved according to one's own actions.
566 1 | to perform any work of an exacting nature. If a Buddhist layman,
567 3 | may take a reverse form of exaggerated modesty and simpering sweetness,
568 2 | as well. ~Let us first examine the relationship at work
569 3 | should he very carefully examined. It is the basis of our
570 1 | stirred up, as it were. Examples of emotion are fear, anger,
571 3 | All its activities without exception are simply 'a tale told
572 4 | hence mindfulness, will be exceptionally difficult. We must not be
573 4 | have to get rid of is our excessive preoccupation with it --
574 1 | situations and stimuli likely to excite sexual desires3 When sensual
575 4 | may be too indolent or too excited, or we may dither in a state
576 3 | interesting by-paths, plausible excuses or pseudo-mystical fantasies
577 1 | he could politely decline excusing himself on medical grounds (
578 4 | must not want to hang the executioner. Supporters of capital punishment
579 3 | developed by training, such exercises as mindfulness on breathing
580 2 | difficult, or how boring, or how exhausting the tasks be we are faced
581 1 | class or race privileges existed among his lay followers
582 1 | death to birth, even as an exit is also an entrance. Each
583 3 | to have a 'self' and we expend a vast amount of energy
584 1 | powerful minority at the expense of the unthinking majority,
585 3 | only the millionaire, the expense-account johnnie, the take-over charlie:
586 4 | feelings are simply being experienced with detachment. And in
587 1 | Sigãlovãda Sutta, the Buddha explained to young Sigãla the reciprocal
588 3 | an assumption certainly explains a great deal. Every form
589 3 | schools there is greater explicit stress on two things: compassion
590 1 | encourage them to do good, expound the teaching and show the
591 1 | actions, Hearing the Doctrine, Expounding the Doctrine and Straightening
592 2 | inherited goods to anyone who expresses a desire for them is folly.
593 3 | Dhamma and the Sangha' we are expressing faith in the Teaching and
594 1 | in innumerable past lives extending far beyond childhood and
595 1 | society is a projection or extension of the collective personality
596 2 | fishing, nor can he be an exterminator of animals. Dealing in alcohol
597 1 | Against suffering, the externals of life will be of little
598 4 | grasp something outside and extract enjoyment from it. We can
599 3 | cannot pass through the eye of the needle? He is not
600 4 | To the person with normal eyesight, physical blindness is a
601 1(1)| See E.F.S. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful. (
602 1 | were moulded and into the fabric of national life were woven
603 2 | exhausting the tasks be we are faced with, we will find that
604 3 | Knowing ourselves means facing our own insecurity. Recognising
605 1 | equal chance to develop the faculties latent in each, as all are
606 2 | generally has a well-developed faculty of concentration due to
607 1 | of its own, it tends to fade away. If done as often as
608 4 | applies, of course, to all our failings and weaknesses. But there
609 3 | which may only be very faint; but until a higher stage
610 1 | she in return should be faithful, understanding, efficient,
611 1 | On the other hand, he who faithfully follows the Buddha's advice
612 1 | buy, power over others, fame and name, wishing to go
613 3 | first step', you are now familiar with the Four Noble Truths
614 2 | material gain or loss, be famous or infamous, receive praise
615 3 | excuses or pseudo-mystical fantasies born of conceit and ignorance.
616 2 | the evening is making a farce of Dhamma -- perhaps keeping
617 1 | true. ~Their lives mould farmers, tradesmen, merchants, serfs; ~
618 2 | earns his living, whether by farming, by trading, by rearing
619 1 | present action. It is neither fate nor predestination. ~ ~
620 3 | They are the things the ego fattens on. Equally impressive and
621 4 | why it was that we ever feared to look in that particular
622 4 | suitably stirred up, he feels it his duty to go out and
623 2 | awareness in the supramundane feld, the more careful he will
624 1 | occupation, his family and his fellow beings. ~(a) Himself and
625 1 | sympathy and understandinug for fellow-men, guided by knowledge and
626 1 | badge of citizenship and fellowship, the essentials of civilised
627 1 | Nibbãna. If there is an urgent felt need, the ideal has the
628 1 | and helpful. Morality is a fence that protects us from the
629 2 | in themselves are not the fetters that keep us in dukkha,
630 2 | us in dukkha, so having fewer things or more, for that
631 1 | soul is then a piece of fiction invented by the human mind.
632 3 | fact blind ignorance and it fights desperately to maintain
633 4 | detachment (viveka) and filled with rapture and joy.' The
634 1(3)| To the latter belong films, pictures and literature
635 4 | too well, and though their final conquest is difficult, they
636 1 | conditioned phenomena, has no finality of form and therefore changes
637 2 | thieves may not steal it, nor fire burn it, nor water carry
638 2 | clear and his mind stays firmly with the materials at hand.
639 1 | economic planning, a suitable fiscal policy and a comprehensive
640 2 | other virtues as Burmese fishermen do even if it is impossible
641 1 | Sangha that He founded - a fitting complement to the doctrine
642 0 | Anguttara Nikaya, Fives, No. 175 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
643 1 | the heat and light of a flame are inseparable. And the
644 1 | matter of degree, for in the fleeting there is nothing truly firm. ~ ~
645 4 | is not a kind of selfish flight from the world, but the
646 1 | sexual passion. When emotion floods the mind, reason retreats,
647 1 | means to an end: the full flowing of the human being in the
648 1 | Such regulated behaviour flows from proper understanding
649 1 | the doctrine of social fluidity and equality based on nobility
650 2 | keep one's mind clearly focussed on the job at hand -- if
651 1 | inevitability of action being followed by reaction. One therefore,
652 1 | Buddhism and Daily Life ~A follower of the Buddha learns to
653 1 | life is not death, as some fondly believe, but rest - the
654 1 | needs for the body -- pure food, clothing, shelter and medicine.
655 4 | stop working on the old and foolish principle 'Where ignorance
656 2 | sensations that arise, see their foolishness and as soon as we can, just
657 1 | Sutta) has it. So the Buddha forbade five kinds of trade to a
658 2 | ignorance, not of wisdom. He has forgotten that all the phenomena he
659 2 | workplace as well as while formally sitting in meditation. ~
660 1 | beyond childhood and the formative years of the present life.
661 3 | faith we next need to put forth effort, so we need energy.
662 1 | Actions fashion not only one's fortune, how one shall be born,
663 1 | Finally, this teaching fosters in us a feeling of all-embracing
664 1 | Order of the Sangha that He founded - a fitting complement to
665 1 | break? Why fret about the fragility of the frail? Besides, are
666 1 | about the fragility of the frail? Besides, are we so careful
667 2 | which we come and within the framework of available job opportunities.
668 3 | Let us first of all have a frank look at it in the sense
669 3 | reason is that we find life frankly unnerving, in fact, because
670 2 | and with the mind thus freed of greed, hatred and ignorance,
671 1 | to win the highest of all freedoms - freedom from error and
672 1 | he wants, the happier and freer he is. ~Thinking man realises
673 1 | feeling of inner security and frees himself from fears, anxieties
674 4 | involved in it -- engagé as the French say. For them, detachment
675 2 | slowly it will decrease in frequency and intensity. ~Paññã can
676 1 | to break, do break? Why fret about the fragility of the
677 4 | answer to our ill-tempered friend's problem. He cannot restrain
678 1 | wholesome, as for instance, wise friendship, and keeping oneself usefully
679 1 | therefore, an advance on many fronts - the economic, the moral
680 1 | deaths, with their attendant frustrations, disappointments and the
681 2 | committed ourselves to a full-time job. To grow in the wisdom
682 1 | and castes are nothing but functional or occupational groupings,
683 2 | at the workplace, and the functioning of our minds while engaged
684 3 | complex and dynamic set of functions which are not by any means
685 4 | seriousness are in fact extremely funny. In that way we may find
686 4 | picture of the man with furiously knitted brows and a wet
687 3 | idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'. How
688 1 | by parents, for the mere fusing of two cells from mother
689 4 | see that the chances of gaining control of any situation
690 1 | them. In this way, a person gains a feeling of inner security
691 1 | diverted not merely to outdoor games and sports, but also to
692 1 | activities like hand work, gardening and other constructive activities. ~ ~
693 2 | individuals. A vipassanã meditator generally has a well-developed faculty
694 2 | we will be continuing to generate more and more unhappiness
695 1 | choice: the kammic energy generated from the past birth produced
696 4 | let us call them as a generic term crusaders as opposed
697 1 | duties; friends should be generous, sincere, kindly and helpful
698 3 | misleadingly translated. The German for 'repression' in the
699 3 | laid on for the honour and glory of a character who doesn'
700 3 | ego is the most ruthlessly gluttonous all-devouring monster there
701 1 | to achieve both of these goals is the weapon of the mind,
702 3 | mouth and no belly, yet gobbles up the entire world' (as
703 4 | well, but I just haven't got the will-power.' In fact
704 3 | thing to us. It is out to grab all it can get, whether
705 2 | if we are getting good grades at the university, or if
706 2 | in poison. ~ Gradual Sayings (Angutt. N.) III,
707 1 | to do so - but at his own grave peril. ~Positively, the
708 1 | disbelief in the force of gravity. ~ ~Kamma is intentional
709 1 | livelihood are matters of his greatest concern. A hungry man is
710 2 | Concentration will contribute greatly to our success in our career. ~
711 1 | excusing himself on medical grounds (which are justifiable),
712 1 | functional or occupational groupings, neither fixed nor inevitable.
713 0 | he strives for its strong growth; ~He has right views, disregarding
714 4 | form of attachment we must guard especially against, because
715 1 | mother, sister, brother or guardian, including one's employees. ~ ~
716 0 | the sake of his life; ~He guards his deeds and words; ~He
717 1 | understandinug for fellow-men, guided by knowledge and training.
718 1 | die for. They provide the guiding star round which others,
719 1 | carry lifelong burdens of guilt. Sexual desire, in its personal
720 1(1)| Buddhist Economics". --H.N.S. Karuna-tilaka, This
721 1 | unconscious or automatic habits. They, in turn, whether
722 3 | It is the basis of our habitual ego-reactions. We want so
723 3 | perhaps somewhere about half-way between ordinary sleep and
724 3 | disappointed ego. And the hall-mark of a person who has really
725 1 | one's own mind -- not be a Hamlet. unable to decide, because
726 2 | the present without being hampered and held back by worries
727 4 | how one enters the first ]hãna: 'Detached from sensual
728 3 | who have preserved it and handed it on. ~If we have faith
729 4 | punishment you must not want to hang the executioner. Supporters
730 4 | for both, and even for the hangman as well, for he is certainly
731 1 | spiritual life. Yet even the happiest person cannot say when and
732 1 | have to be made. He must be happily adjusted to himself and
733 2 | wantonly give away one's hard-earned or inherited goods to anyone
734 1 | poisoned by discontent is hardly in a fit frame of mind to
735 2 | involving himself in causing harm or injury to others for
736 2 | which lying, backbiting or harming of others would be involved.
737 4 | in this way they can be harmlessly dissolved. ~The interesting
738 1 | they are sublimated and harmonised, giving satisfaction to
739 | hast
740 2 | viruses, not because he hates the 'bugs', but in order
741 4 | evil. Let us take off our hats to them, and perhaps even
742 4 | and a wet towel round his head, who is desperately trying
743 3 | list of items under the heading of hate; we are all capable
744 1 | civilisation where sex is seen, heard, sensed and thought of most
745 3 | these things in our own hearts, we cannot claim to have
746 1 | They co-exist, just as the heat and light of a flame are
747 1 | born, whether in the human, heavenly or animal world. In short,
748 1 | anxieties and many other heavy burdens. This attitude to
749 1 | pure and chaste, sober and heedful in mind. He speaks only
750 1 | way, even temporarily, to heedlessness, recklessness and mental
751 1 | not, even as a fall from a height will result in injury or
752 1 | born of, supported by, heir to, his kamma. ~ ~One
753 1 | eternal holiday which is the hell of boredom. ~A large part
754 1 | men in a society should be helped to see life in perspective.
755 1 | Mindfulness, the all-round helper. Progress to a lay Buddhist
756 2 | they may appear to be just helping others to create more tanhã (
757 4 | well imagine the feeling of helplessness and insecurity the blind
758 | hereafter
759 1 | using the mechanism of heredity, duly modified, if necessary. ~ ~
760 2 | Understanding (sammã ditt hi) also requires a basic understanding
761 2 | ratholes and cockroaches' hideouts with anger or aversion towards
762 1 | unskilful. He has attained the highest-Nibbãna. ~ ~As the Blessed one
763 1 | reproductive act of sexual union highly pleasurable so that it is
764 1 | and promptly an incipient hindrance (or any other impure state
765 1 | and result from social and historical factors. A social doctrine
766 1 | the first thinker in known history to teach the doctrine of
767 1 | occupational interest or hobbies or sports can divert the
768 1 | work would be an eternal holiday which is the hell of boredom. ~
769 1 | unsatisfying and empty - as hollow as a bamboo when split.
770 2 | to the side of right and honesty in every situation that
771 4 | I am above all these horrid feelings of sex, they no
772 3 | impressive and perhaps even more horrifying is the list of items under
773 1 | thirst and sex as well a host of secondary wants and desires
774 2 | situations of life -- meditative, household, or work. If one's mindfulness
775 1 | economic security, health care, housing, and education, without
776 4 | the great Zen patriarch Hui-neng, who told his pupils 'to
777 1 | equality, but also the first humanist who attempted to abolish
778 1 | special mating season for humans, and males and females may
779 1 | primary or basic urges of hunger, thirst and sex as well
780 1 | his greatest concern. A hungry man is an angry man. And
781 1 | diligent and dutiful; a husband should be kind, loyal and
782 2 | by right means, such he husbands well by guarding and watching
783 0 | life by way of deception or hypocrisy; ~He has gone for refuge
784 3 | called the ego, but also the id and even the super-ego.
785 1 | of human nature and the idealism of youth to work for social
786 3 | Until we have found and identified the seeds of all these things
787 1 | mainsprings of social change are ideology and economics - for men
788 3 | simply 'a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
789 1 | tale-bearing, harsh words and idle talk. ~The Buddha's attitude
790 2 | one's own. This kind of ignorance-based watchfulness will only lead
791 3 | here - hence if we were not ignorant we would not have been reborn.
792 2 | purchases or work schedule or ignore the future implications
793 2 | achieve more at work and ignoring the Noble Eightfold Path
794 1 | away by these thoughts. ~(ii) Simply neglect such thoughts,
795 1 | use with skill, without ill to himself or to others.
796 2 | water carry it off, nor ill-disposed heirs remove. This is the
797 4 | like. Or we can vent our ill-temper on it in a fit of destructiveness.
798 4 | practical answer to our ill-tempered friend's problem. He cannot
799 3 | the veils of ego-created illusion. The last of the five factors
800 1 | enough for human happiness as illustrated by today's "affluent societies".
801 3 | lot of thoughts and mental images arise, try to discover where
802 4 | thing. We can only too well imagine the feeling of helplessness
803 3 | as seems to be popularly imagined, but ceasing to deceive
804 1 | an eternal soul or an immanent abiding principle (anattã). ~ ~
805 1 | from both. And why? The immediate aim of a Buddhist layman
806 1 | tanhã or craving, containing immense possibilities for both good
807 3 | and emotions, and this is immensely valuable. Perhaps the most
808 2 | necessity to function in an immoral society while keeping one'
809 3 | cultivating at least a degree of immunity to the appeals of the outside
810 1 | at the bottom, and their impact and influence on the way
811 1 | confusion. Alcohol does impair the ability to think clearly,
812 1 | one of the best ways of impairing the efficiency of this precious
813 4 | another obstacle born of impatience and conceit. It is not an '
814 2 | will be weaker. Becoming impatient with the unwholesome tendencies
815 2 | physical, that is their impermanency, unsatisfactoriness and
816 4 | of understanding of the impersonality of all things - of our own
817 1 | equality does not, however, imply that all men are alike physically
818 1 | what is taking place, and impress on his mind that even a
819 3 | ego fattens on. Equally impressive and perhaps even more horrifying
820 1 | rebirth can, therefore, improve and elevate the character
821 1 | comfort. Conservation and improvement of one's resources and talents,
822 1 | and discipline. Initial improvements from within will result
823 1 | aspects, as a first step to improving it: the secular (such as
824 1 | hindrance (or any other impure state of mind), then, of
825 2 | slowed down and perhaps inadequately completed. As the mind is
826 2 | the employee who sees how inane his work is, or how absurd
827 1 | tendencies in us, including inborn human instincts, are merely
828 1 | so-called being, are nothing but incessant change (anicca), therefore
829 1 | mindfully and promptly an incipient hindrance (or any other
830 4 | emotions. Nor is it in any way incompatible with charity or compassion -
831 2 | impossible for them to give up an incorrect mode of earning a living.
832 3 | in our minds, will tend increasingly to bring us to the goal.
833 2 | of expecting them to last indefinitely, nor of considering them
834 1 | bring carries with it the indelible stamp of truth and is, therefore,
835 1 | the example of the great Indian Emperor Asoka, when Buddhism
836 4 | far it may be possible to indicate to him the contradiction
837 4 | is, of course, as already indicated, that we don't want to,
838 1 | life, prevents drift and indicates the right direction and
839 1 | freedom from debt is a sure indicator of right seeing or understanding.
840 3 | will only lead to mental indigestion. The obvious thing is to
841 3 | the form of over-emotive indignation at the acts of hate committed
842 2 | or they may involve some indirect responsibility in wrong
843 3 | most of them. Unguided and indiscriminate reading will only lead to
844 3 | beings. It is an absolutely indispensable factor in all Buddhist training.
845 1 | livelihood. ~Life is one and indivisible, and the working life a
846 4 | preventing us: we may be too indolent or too excited, or we may
847 2 | or country, whether it is indoors or outdoors, white collar
848 3 | five factors are called indriyas or 'ruling factors'. This
849 1 | Buddhists, and thereby, induces them to take to social work
850 1 | understanding, efficient, industrious and economical in the performance
851 1 | actions, because of the inevitability of action being followed
852 2 | gain or loss, be famous or infamous, receive praise or blame,
853 1 | it the risks of venereal infection. A compassionate Buddhist,
854 1 | superior feeling - of an inflated "I". If the person thinks
855 1 | humanity in the mass can be influenced for good by the example
856 4 | an objection which is not infrequently made to the cultivation
857 4 | and it is an essential ingredient of Right Mindfulness. Incidentally
858 2 | will be apt to take this injunction of the Buddha's as license
859 1 | actions done repeatedly in innumerable past lives extending far
860 1 | and light of a flame are inseparable. And the beginning of ignorance (
861 3 | the arising of the higher Insight-Wisdom, the perfection of which
862 3 | fact made useful progress. Insights often come very subtly. ~
863 2 | livelihood? Trickery, cajolery, insinuating, dissembling, rapacity for
864 1 | really are. He remembers the instability of everything and understands
865 1 | marriage is not a compulsory institution for all lay followers. It
866 1 | teachers must train and instruct pupils in the proper way;
867 1 | sense of inadequacy and insufficiency. If we don't get all our
868 1 | this way, he strives to insulate himself from potential disappointments.
869 2 | our things, we are only intelligently providing for our own welfare
870 4 | and in its higher stages intensely difficult. By becoming progressively
871 1 | unthinking majority, based on the intensification and multiplication of artificial
872 1 | of gravity. ~ ~Kamma is intentional or volitional action; vipãka
873 1 | undoubtedly foster healthier inter-personal relationships, decrease
874 2 | necessary mundane activities and interaction with other people. So if
875 2 | completely pure. Due to the interdependence of all phases of society
876 3 | flow of your breath without interfering and, as far as you can manage,
877 2 | external experiences and internal phenomena we come into contact
878 1 | However, this must not be interpreted to mean that Buddhism is
879 2 | awareness or mindfulness is intertwined with improved concentration
880 1 | Introduction ~Buddhism should not be
881 4 | crusaders as opposed to the introspectives -- do not on occasion do
882 1 | Conduct, Mental Culture and Intuitive Insight (or wisdom). It
883 1 | then a piece of fiction invented by the human mind. To believe
884 4 | cause of that fear can be investigated. If that secondary fear
885 2 | trivial to the meditator investigating the job market, or they
886 4 | maintain detachment. Emotional involvement and perhaps even quite serious
887 2 | by doing so he would be involving himself in causing harm
888 4 | can observe ourselves with ironic amusement. By so doing we
889 3 | it and not be diverted by irrelevancies, interesting by-paths, plausible
890 2 | various directions towards irrelevant objects, our work will be
891 1 | One's life will then move irresistably in the direction of its
892 1 | disappointment, dis-ease and an irritating sense of inadequacy and
893 3 | is -- or at least what it isn't -- and self-deception
894 3 | horrifying is the list of items under the heading of hate;
895 0 | Questions of King Milinda, Ch. IV ~* That is, he is concerned
896 2 | Buddharakkhita, in Maha Bodhi, January 1976): ~By whatsoever activity
897 3 | it which is aware. In the jargon of some modern philosophers,
898 0 | He is not envious or jealous; ~He does not live a Buddhist
899 0 | has five qualities is a jewel of a lay-follower, is like
900 3 | millionaire, the expense-account johnnie, the take-over charlie:
901 4 | perhaps even on occasion join or support them. But let
902 2 | WORKING LIFE ~Susan Elbaum Jootla ~The question of correct
903 0 | lay-follower: ~He shares the joys and the sorrows of the Order;*
904 1 | always mistrusting one's own judgement. ~ ~Daily practice is
905 4 | for perfection at a single jump is just another obstacle
906 2 | by the sweat of his brow, justly acquired by right means,
907 1 | unwanted, often develop into juvenile delinquents. Besides, pre-marital
908 1 | living beings - anãkulã ca kammantã, "a peaceful occupation",
909 3 | Transcendental Reality which is not karma-bound and therefore permanent,
910 3 | past karma; it is vipãka or karma-resultant. In accordance with this
911 1(1)| Buddhist Economics". --H.N.S. Karuna-tilaka, This Confused Society (
912 2 | with when working must be kept alive. And finally, paññã,
913 4 | believe them to be. The key to the situation lies, I
914 1 | Uncertainty and change are the keynotes of life. To each one of
915 3 | of five things, the five khandhas or aggregates. He has a
916 2 | tradition of Sayaji U Ba Khin), we have acquired a ready
917 2 | insecticides, public health workers kill mosquitoes and their larvae,
918 1 | should be generous, sincere, kindly and helpful to one another,
919 4 | of the man with furiously knitted brows and a wet towel round
920 1 | Western civilization that knows how to go through space
921 1 | broadly speaking, skilful (kusala) and unskilful (akusala)
922 1 | known. ~ ~Because of this lack of understanding of things
923 4 | learn that what he really lacks is not necessarily will-power
924 1 | existence. ~ ~Life is like a ladder. The human being occupies
925 1 | loyal to their masters; the laity should support and sustain
926 1 | Buddhist nations, including Sri Lanka, were moulded and into the
927 1 | perfection occasionally lapses, and is content with approximations,
928 2 | kill mosquitoes and their larvae, a truck driver may sometimes
929 1 | seeing or understanding. Lastly, a blameless moral and spiritual
930 2 | primarily operating according to laws of cause and effect, and
931 2 | materials at hand. A doctor's or lawyer's understanding of his client'
932 3 | but especially under the leadership of Mindfulness, let us walk
933 2 | all kinds of teaching and learning depend on one-pointedness
934 4 | our own mind'. ~Let us leave world-problems now and turn
935 1(1)| Buddhist Economics (Bodhi Leaves No. B. 69). ~
936 3 | implications of this must be left for study and meditation,
937 2 | the firm's accounts in the legally dubious way they have always
938 4 | knowing it, a 'safe' or 'legitimate' outlet for their own aggression.
939 2 | at least develop dãna, (liberality) and other virtues as Burmese
940 4 | become Bodhisattvas and 'liberate all beings' without first
941 1 | democratic and socialistic, with liberty, equality, fraternity and
942 2 | injunction of the Buddha's as license to indulge in great upãdãna, --
943 1 | Happiness and security then lie in finding out exactly what
944 1 | in sex, nor does it carry lifelong burdens of guilt. Sexual
945 1 | equal to others, there is likelihood of stagnation and disinclination
946 2 | try to cling to what it likes, striving to perpetuate
947 0 | lay-follower, is like a lily, like a lotus. What are
948 1 | care to recognise one's limitations and not pretend that they
949 3 | factors, reaching back into a limitless past. All we are actually
950 1 | use his free will, within limits, and act according to his
951 3 | even more horrifying is the list of items under the heading
952 2 | to his lay followers, as listed in the initial quotation
953 1(3)| belong films, pictures and literature which are chiefly intended
954 0 | third, after atta (self) and loka (world); see Anguttara,
955 1(1)| Beautiful. (Blond & Briggs, London, 1973), p. 48ff.: "Buddhist
956 1 | possession as health, wealth, longevity, wife and children; the
957 2 | keeping the form but surely losing the essence of the Buddha'
958 0 | is like a lily, like a lotus. What are these five qualities? ~
959 0 | The Lotus-like Lay-follower~Thus spoke
960 0 | his deeds and words; ~He loves and cherishes peace and
961 1 | the Four Sublime States, Loving Kindness, Compassion., Sympathetic
962 0 | action (kamma) and not in luck or omen; he does not seek
963 2 | Acharya Buddharakkhita, in Maha Bodhi, January 1976): ~
964 1 | Bringing up a Family In the Mahã Mangala Sutta the Buddha
965 1 | Discourse on Blessings (Maha-Mangala Sutta) has it. So the Buddha
966 1 | the passage of time. The mainsprings of social change are ideology
967 2 | Middle-length Sayings (Majjh.Nik.), III,pp. 118-19.~The
968 1 | the physical and mental make-up that is "I" - the very environment
969 1 | mating season for humans, and males and females may find that
970 1 | are divisions of society, man-made, subject to change and result
971 3 | interfering and, as far as you can manage, with undivided attention.
972 1 | up a Family In the Mahã Mangala Sutta the Buddha teaches
973 4 | oneself as one is. It may manifest in the feeling 'I cannot
974 4 | precise nature or mode of manifesting it is something unpleasant,
975 1 | only true solution to the manifold problems in the modern world.
976 3 | must be developed in such a manner that they are properly balanced.
977 2 | wrong livelihood. If we manufacture, deal in, or use insecticides
978 1 | for life. It can make or mar a householder's life. ~ ~
979 1 | better and happier. It is a mark of maturity. It is progress
980 3 | Existence': all things are marked by impermanence and suffering.
981 3 | straight away two of the three 'Marks of Existence': all things
982 1 | such time as he is able to marry. No doubt he lives in a
983 3 | making us feel very holy. Martyrdom is in fact the last consolation
984 1 | members. ~But humanity in the mass can be influenced for good
985 1 | the wise guidance of the Master's teaching, he gradually
986 1 | efficiently and be loyal to their masters; the laity should support
987 1 | sake. There is no special mating season for humans, and males
988 1 | happier. It is a mark of maturity. It is progress on the path
989 1 | progress of the lay Buddhist, maximising happiness and minimising
990 1 | deliberately use the state power to maximize welfare, both economic and
991 2 | family -- not to make the maximum amount of money with the
992 1 | pubbangamadhammã Mano Setthã Mano Maya). ~However, this must not
993 1 | an otherwise aimless and meaningless life, prevents drift and
994 1 | emotions. By emotion is meant a feeling which moves us
995 1 | for instance, ought not be measured in terms of what he has
996 2 | the future. ~An artist or mechanic or craftsman is much better
997 2 | position of peacemaker or mediator between the opposing sides
998 1 | decline excusing himself on medical grounds (which are justifiable),
999 1 | food, clothing, shelter and medicine. Corresponding to these,
1000 2 | supporting oneself in order to meditate? Or can one's job be used
1001 2 | in the community, but the meditator-businessman must always keep in mind