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1002 1 | services assuring to every member of the community, as a right,
1003 3 | Path. So I just want to mention a few points which may arise
1004 1 | society. They are worth mentioning in brief; parents have to
1005 1 | mould farmers, tradesmen, merchants, serfs; ~Their lives mould
1006 1 | race can be tremendous. The message they bring carries with
1007 4 | us not get involved in a metaphysical discussion about whether
1008 4 | is. The individual is a microcosm of society, and each one
1009 2 | livelihood... ~ Middle-length Sayings (Majjh.Nik.), III,
1010 4 | this is a comparatively mild example, in the world today!),
1011 0 | Questions of King Milinda, Ch. IV ~* That is,
1012 1 | society into a workshop or a military camp, but it is the cultivation
1013 3 | needle? He is not only the millionaire, the expense-account johnnie,
1014 2 | the ultimate nature of our mind-and-body (nãma-rûpa) with the mind-moments
1015 2 | factors that is present in any mind-moment, but the degree to which
1016 2 | which will be reflecting the mind-reactions), we are no longer reinforcing
1017 2 | before us -- without becoming mindlessly absorbed or involved in
1018 1 | maximising happiness and minimising pain. ~The Buddha names
1019 1 | the benefit of a powerful minority at the expense of the unthinking
1020 3 | a straight back for ten minutes resolved not to make a single
1021 2 | materials or otherwise misappropriating the employer's property.
1022 1 | all effort misguided and misdirected. Right Understanding, in
1023 1 | say when and in what form misfortune may strike him. Against
1024 1 | way is lost, all effort misguided and misdirected. Right Understanding,
1025 3 | a Freudian term which is misleadingly translated. The German for '
1026 1 | blindness of hate, and the mist of a delusive self, to win
1027 1 | decide, because one is always mistrusting one's own judgement. ~ ~
1028 1 | why we should be at least moderately happy in our job. But choosing
1029 3 | reverse form of exaggerated modesty and simpering sweetness,
1030 1 | mechanism of heredity, duly modified, if necessary. ~ ~The
1031 1 | They more or less shape or mold the character of a person.
1032 0 | about the welfare of the monastic community, with which he
1033 2 | injury to others for his own monetary gain. These days the probability
1034 4 | positively regard it as morally wrong to be detached. One
1035 2 | meditation an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening
1036 2 | public health workers kill mosquitoes and their larvae, a truck
1037 2 | so as well. However, the motivation behind the use of such material
1038 4 | bigger and bigger forms of 'motiveless' destruction. Greed and
1039 1 | including Sri Lanka, were moulded and into the fabric of national
1040 3 | peculiar monster that 'has no mouth and no belly, yet gobbles
1041 1 | be. One's life will then move irresistably in the direction
1042 4 | often too they are really moved far more by hate than by
1043 3 | single voluntary bodily movement during that time, and just
1044 2 | we are still assured of moving towards success in the supramundane
1045 3 | Clearing up our mental muddle calls for increased self-knowledge,
1046 1 | the intensification and multiplication of artificial wants, often
1047 4 | only on account of being multiplied, but because of being at
1048 1 | pleasures in the hope that by multiplying them they will thereby become
1049 4 | too much sympathy for the murderer and not enough for his victim.
1050 3 | capable in our minds of murderous rage, sadism, treachery
1051 4 | the whole thing from some mysterious inner centre. In any case,
1052 4 | in fact, are perhaps more nakedly at work in our society than
1053 2 | nature of our mind-and-body (nãma-rûpa) with the mind-moments that
1054 1 | minimising pain. ~The Buddha names four kinds of lay happiness:
1055 1 | it truly is (yathã bhûtã ñãna dassana). All things that
1056 1 | Teachings that all the Buddhist nations, including Sri Lanka, were
1057 2 | and paññã, to balance it. Naturally, it is always useful to
1058 1 | our own experiences, so near to us, things as they truly
1059 1 | brings a person a little nearer his object, day by day. ~ ~
1060 4 | from the world, but the necessay precondition for coping
1061 2 | activities; we make all needed choices and decisions, but
1062 3 | pass through the eye of the needle? He is not only the millionaire,
1063 3 | unsatisfying is its seemingly negative approach. In the Mahãyãna
1064 4 | picture of the ego. Put negatively, it is a refusal to accept
1065 3 | should therefore not be neglected. Those who deny its necessity
1066 1 | policy and a comprehensive network of social services assuring
1067 3 | common to the majority of 'newborn' Buddhists in the West.
1068 3 | be free from that sort of nihilistic scepticism which is so common
1069 2 | Middle-length Sayings (Majjh.Nik.), III,pp. 118-19.~The fields
1070 0 | Anguttara Nikaya, Fives, No. 175 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1071 1 | fluidity and equality based on nobility of conduct. As the Buddha
1072 1 | the art of living is the noblest of all creative aspirations
1073 1 | He tries to eliminate the non - essential and learns to
1074 1 | and ask instead for a non-alcoholic drink; or alternatively,
1075 1 | A birth no Brahmin, nor non-Brahmin makes; ~'Tis life and doing
1076 2 | is apparently devoted to non-Dhamma work, and at the same time
1077 3 | point alone. ~The most notable contribution made to psychology
1078 3 | in Pali), which is, be it noted, selfless (anattã). This
1079 1 | emotional control is to practise noticing mindfully and promptly an
1080 1 | unwanted drink, mindfully noting what is taking place, and
1081 4 | incidentally, contradicting the notion that it is 'easy'. Of course,
1082 3 | happened, now that the first novelty of the situation has worn
1083 4 | senseless destructiveness about nowadays. There always has been,
1084 | nowhere
1085 3 | other varieties. There are numerous books about most of them.
1086 4 | as indeed any doctor or nurse can tell you. It is not '
1087 4 | might pause to consider an objection which is not infrequently
1088 1 | evil, evil. Kamma operates objectively, and the results show themselves
1089 1 | careful self-examination and observation, by past performance, and
1090 2 | and if this desire is not observed with wisdom, we will be
1091 1 | and is, therefore, never obsolete. ~Most outstanding among
1092 2 | householder is in possession of, obtained by work and zeal, collected
1093 2 | responsibility for such occasional acts is not with us. However,
1094 2 | are particularly important occasions to keep carefully to the
1095 1 | keeping oneself usefully occupied at all times. If one has
1096 4 | experience as the following may occur: a kind of 'unreal' feeling
1097 3 | opposite of this situation occurs: the clothes go walking
1098 1 | delicate situation such as when offered an intoxicating drink at
1099 3 | kinds of anguish. Buddhism offers a way out of this situation
1100 2 | only rarely does an army officer serve in combat -- the rest
1101 2 | substantial number of police officers in Rajasthan doing vipassanã
1102 4 | problem with the words 'Oh yes, that's all very well,
1103 0 | kamma) and not in luck or omen; he does not seek outside (
1104 0 | belief in superstitions and omens; he will not accept any
1105 2 | exaggerate one's statements or omit disadvantageous facts, even
1106 3 | mind and developing right ones. Clearly a certain amount
1107 1 | of the human being in the onwards carrying stream of Buddhist
1108 1 | ills of the world. ~In the opening stanza of the Dhammapada
1109 4 | less common since greater openness on sexual matters has become
1110 2 | recondition the mind to operate in channels based on wisdom,
1111 2 | dealing with are primarily operating according to laws of cause
1112 4 | insecurity, how often is not his opponent in virtually the same case!
1113 4 | punishment often claim that its opponents show too much sympathy for
1114 4 | case, those who wish to oppose such a trend will need to
1115 4 | generic term crusaders as opposed to the introspectives --
1116 3 | is an active force which opposes discovery of the truth at
1117 4 | the poor, the sick, the oppressed, the suffering. Yet in fact
1118 4 | loving-kindness. Hatred, even of the oppressor or the criminal, is not
1119 4 | is the equivalent of that opprobrious term we used to hear so
1120 1 | all lay followers. It is optional. This brings us to the important
1121 1 | Kamma is one of the fixed orders of existence. ~ ~Life
1122 3 | somewhere about half-way between ordinary sleep and true enlightenment,
1123 3 | great deal. Every form of ostentation we may indulge in is a way
1124 3 | unnecessary and slightly ostentatious self-sacrifice. This latter
1125 3 | and object, or self and other-than-self. ~Probably most people
1126 1 | of actions is a natural outcome of the Universal Law of
1127 1 | be diverted not merely to outdoor games and sports, but also
1128 2 | whether it is indoors or outdoors, white collar or blue collar
1129 4 | a 'safe' or 'legitimate' outlet for their own aggression.
1130 1 | mind and provide suitable outlets. Moderation in eating is
1131 2 | Livelihood. Right Livelihood was outlined in the first quotation from
1132 1 | Wisdom (paññã). The Path outlines the practice of Buddhism,
1133 1 | never obsolete. ~Most outstanding among the great teachers
1134 3 | which they may find some outward expression will be, perhaps,
1135 4 | for doing so. ~With our outward-turned senses we can do various
1136 3 | inferior, says Adler, tend to over-compensate and present an appearance
1137 3 | perhaps, in the form of over-emotive indignation at the acts
1138 1 | both good and evil, neither overestimating nor underestimating one'
1139 2 | necessary commands without being overly harsh. There are a substantial
1140 4 | greed or hate or fear are overmastering us and yet feel quite unable
1141 3 | Faith without Wisdom can overreach itself and turn into that
1142 2 | certainly any job with such overtones is to be avoided. Breeding
1143 1 | the appropriate sperm and ovum of his human parents at
1144 1 | actions. Beings are not only owners of kamma but also their
1145 2 | s beef ranch or selling packaged meat is acceptable as there
1146 3 | example of ego-boosting as the padded shoulders worn by the tough:
1147 1(1)| Centre, Colombo, 1976).--Dr. Padmasiri de Silva, Buddhist Economics (
1148 1 | effect, however unpleasant or painful they may be. An understanding
1149 2 | distracted by, the pleasure and pains of the senses, we will find
1150 1 | observing the Five Precepts (Pañ ca Sila). Such regulated
1151 2 | and continue to grow in pãññã (wisdom) at the same time
1152 1 | incomparable beauty: ~Sabba pãpassa akaranam, ~kusalassa upasampadã ~
1153 3 | perhaps the first of the many paradoxes you will encounter attempting
1154 2 | Greater awareness of all the parameters of a situation will enable
1155 2 | and become the thing of paramount importance, then we have
1156 1 | it dull and blunt, is to partake of intoxicating drinks and
1157 1 | happy family life are then a partnership of two parents with common
1158 3 | like the camel, cannot pass through the eye of the needle?
1159 1 | therefore changes with the passage of time. The mainsprings
1160 1 | anger, and strong sexual passion. When emotion floods the
1161 3 | or not seeing is no mere passive principle - it is an active
1162 2 | sammã-sankappa, the remaining Path-and-Wisdom-factor, one considers all that
1163 1 | is a hard fight requiring patient and persistent practice;
1164 1 | with initial consciousness (patisandhi viññãna), using the mechanism
1165 4 | the words of the great Zen patriarch Hui-neng, who told his pupils '
1166 4 | this point perhaps we might pause to consider an objection
1167 3 | that is too high a price to pay. We are like the rich young
1168 1 | accordance with facts, sweet, peaceable and helpful. Morality is
1169 2 | ourselves in the position of peacemaker or mediator between the
1170 3 | grasp the nature of this peculiar monster that 'has no mouth
1171 2 | them. If a business deal is pending, and we are getting more
1172 4 | detached, one gradually penetrates to the heart of Buddhism.
1173 2 | in their true nature by penetrating through the apparent truth.
1174 2 | he might previously have perceived it. ~Whatever our work
1175 3 | physical body, feelings, perceptions, emotional reactions and
1176 1 | regress. If the individual perfects his life, thinks and acts
1177 1 | that actions consciously performed again and again tend to
1178 1 | so - but at his own grave peril. ~Positively, the Buddhist
1179 1 | danger in expecting to find permanence in existence. In this way,
1180 1 | should therefore pervade and permeate one's entire life for only
1181 1 | in moderation they have a pernicious influence on the mind and
1182 2 | up in the businessman's perpetual tendency towards "rapacity
1183 2 | what it likes, striving to perpetuate the pleasant feelings. If
1184 1 | necessarily lead to the perpetuation of social tensions and conflict,
1185 1 | fight requiring patient and persistent practice; nevertheless,
1186 3 | blandishments of the hidden persuaders whether from within or without,
1187 1 | must take place by peaceful persuasion and education without resorting
1188 1 | Blessed one should therefore pervade and permeate one's entire
1189 2 | or aversion towards the pests, we would be generating
1190 3 | alike. Our little personal petty self is the really important
1191 1 | of delusive unreality or phantasy. ~ ~To remedy this, we
1192 4 | I have gone through this phase myself. If you suggest to
1193 2 | the interdependence of all phases of society and today's complex
1194 3 | nature of the mundane, the phenomenal world as our senses present
1195 1 | Like any other conditioned phenomenon, it changes constantly and
1196 3 | the jargon of some modern philosophers, everything about man is
1197 1 | life, of His age. ~To the philosophical concept of life as dynamic
1198 4 | within ourselves (whatever, philosophically, that means). This feeling
1199 4 | evil or abuse he happens to pick on. What does he do then?
1200 1(3)| the latter belong films, pictures and literature which are
1201 3 | all our lofty ideals, our pious thoughts and holy aspirations,
1202 1 | occasionally finds himself placed in a delicate situation
1203 1 | are threefold: economic planning, a suitable fiscal policy
1204 3 | irrelevancies, interesting by-paths, plausible excuses or pseudo-mystical
1205 1 | act of sexual union highly pleasurable so that it is inevitably
1206 4 | difficult, as there are plenty of things wrong with most
1207 2 | five trades ought not to be plied by a lay-disciple ... Trade
1208 1 | even as the sum of two plus two is four, never more
1209 2 | disciple of the Buddha cannot ply? And how can one best work
1210 2 | the right thing if he is pointing out a reasonable fault,
1211 3 | just want to mention a few points which may arise at this
1212 1 | an angry man. And a man poisoned by discontent is hardly
1213 2 | a substantial number of police officers in Rajasthan doing
1214 1 | planning, a suitable fiscal policy and a comprehensive network
1215 1 | are open to him: he could politely decline excusing himself
1216 3 | we like, as seems to be popularly imagined, but ceasing to
1217 2 | is full of dust", and few positions for lay livelihood can allow
1218 4 | necessarily to others) that we possess our full share of all the
1219 1 | craving, containing immense possibilities for both good and evil,
1220 2 | career with little reasonable possibility of shifting to one more
1221 2 | situations. It may not be as powerfully clear as when we are meditating,
1222 2 | Sayings (Majjh.Nik.), III,pp. 118-19.~The fields of livelihood
1223 1 | That Buddhism is eminently practicable is clearly shown by the
1224 1 | well. ~The lay person who practises morality (sila) by reason
1225 1 | juvenile delinquents. Besides, pre-marital sex may carry with it the
1226 1 | and discipline follow, not precede, the state of mind of the
1227 1 | mind over matter: "Mind precedes things, dominates them,
1228 4 | world, but the necessay precondition for coping with the world.
1229 1 | It is neither fate nor predestination. ~ ~A Buddhist views life
1230 3 | developed which, if they are predominant in our minds, will tend
1231 1 | can pursue the ideal of a prefect man - the Arahant - free
1232 4 | of no use. It is just a preliminary stage, and it should be
1233 1 | child. And children born of premarital relations when deprived
1234 4 | rid of is our excessive preoccupation with it -- that is to say,
1235 1 | him. He should not be so preoccupied with the business (or, busy-mess,
1236 4 | to discover. We must be prepared to stop working on the old
1237 4 | Buddhas.' And one of the prerequisites of purifying one's own mind
1238 1 | i) Mindfully note the presence of such thoughts without
1239 1 | in us all to ensure the preservation of the race. Nature, to
1240 3 | Order of monks who have preserved it and handed it on. ~If
1241 3 | becomes aware of them. So press on regardless, and don't
1242 4 | and believe unlikely, that pressures for the reintroduction of
1243 1 | one's limitations and not pretend that they do not exist.
1244 3 | something existing. It is not a pretty sight. Underneath all our
1245 4 | counsels may have a chance to prevail. Emotional appeals would
1246 3 | from arising or at least prevent its developing into grasping.
1247 4 | other three hindrances is preventing us: we may be too indolent
1248 2 | work tends to arouse all previous thought associations and
1249 3 | and that is too high a price to pay. We are like the
1250 2 | phenomena he is dealing with are primarily operating according to laws
1251 4 | because of being at a more primitive level. ~It is possible,
1252 1 | principles shall supplant privilege and chaos. But reform must
1253 1 | No caste, class or race privileges existed among his lay followers
1254 2 | monetary gain. These days the probability of trading in human beings
1255 3 | clothes go walking in the procession, but there's no emperor
1256 1 | generated from the past birth produced life - made real the potential,
1257 3 | born of desire, and as such produces pleasant or unpleasant results
1258 2 | If the market for our product is favourable at present,
1259 4 | is mindfulness? There are professing Buddhists who are extremely
1260 2 | he cannot practise his profession at all without a fair amount
1261 2 | businessman or professor or other professional gets so involved in his
1262 2 | Whenever a businessman or professor or other professional gets
1263 1 | economic aspect of a community profoundly affects its other aspects.
1264 1 | classless society requires the progressive refinement of man's nature,
1265 4 | intensely difficult. By becoming progressively more detached, one gradually
1266 4 | or not! Perhaps we just project the whole thing from some
1267 1 | society. Every society is a projection or extension of the collective
1268 3 | shows by selecting twelve prominent factors how it is that we
1269 3 | or another, it seems to promise you security. If you haven'
1270 1 | in the fulfilment of its promises. ~The only effective remedy
1271 1 | peace within and without. It promotes soberness of mind and habit
1272 1 | each one of us, but their promotion will undoubtedly foster
1273 1 | practise noticing mindfully and promptly an incipient hindrance (
1274 2 | misappropriating the employer's property. On the other hand, the
1275 1 | We reap what we sow, in proportion to the sowing. Good begets
1276 2 | beings as slaves or for prostitution is limited, but certainly
1277 1 | of others or those under protection of father, mother, sister,
1278 1 | Morality is a fence that protects us from the poisons of the
1279 1 | than others, he may become proud and conceited and develop
1280 1 | context of the layman's Dhamma provides a sound philosophy of life. ~ ~
1281 2 | we are only intelligently providing for our own welfare and
1282 1(3)| are chiefly intended to provoke sexual tittilation. ~
1283 3 | by-paths, plausible excuses or pseudo-mystical fantasies born of conceit
1284 3 | for 'repression' in the psychoanalytical sense is Verdrãngung, 'thrusting
1285 3 | difficult to uproot. From the psychological point of view we must take
1286 1 | are alike, physically or psychologically, in the light of kamma,
1287 1 | them, creates them" (Mano pubbangamadhammã Mano Setthã Mano Maya). ~
1288 1 | others do. He can resist the pull of the crowd when necessary.
1289 2 | that we do not plan our purchases or work schedule or ignore
1290 4 | take the form of a sort of 'purity complex': 'I am above all
1291 1 | consciously direct his life for purposeful living with a right end,
1292 1 | females for commercial purposes. In fact, this is a prohibited
1293 1 | affluent societies". The pursuit of material pleasures in
1294 2 | mental training and if he puts this ability to appropriate
1295 4 | emotion or not? Am I somehow putting on an act?' What is really
1296 4 | be a distinct feeling of puzzlement as to where precisely 'I'
1297 2 | help others in their own quest for real happiness. ~ ~
1298 0 | Questions of King Milinda, Ch. IV ~*
1299 1 | right plan; this is the quintessence of Buddha's teaching (
1300 2 | the lay disciple Dighjanu (quoted in "Meditation and the Householder"
1301 3 | in our minds of murderous rage, sadism, treachery and disloyalty
1302 2 | number of police officers in Rajasthan doing vipassanã meditation
1303 2 | Working on someone else's beef ranch or selling packaged meat
1304 4 | stronger emotions would be ranged on the other side. If you
1305 4 | viveka) and filled with rapture and joy.' The second jhãna
1306 2 | context. For example, only rarely does an army officer serve
1307 2 | about applying poison to ratholes and cockroaches' hideouts
1308 3 | who has shown the way to reach that goal. At the very least
1309 3 | of development has been reached they will not be totally
1310 1 | noble Eightfold path, one reaches a state of perfection and
1311 3 | conditioned by the other factors, reaching back into a limitless past.
1312 1 | t get all our wishes, we react with hate or take shelter
1313 1 | born, in which I acted and reacted is more of my own doing,
1314 3 | perhaps, hearing them without reacting. Who is the rich man who,
1315 2 | situation in which the mind reacts with aversion to the circumstances,
1316 3 | their scriptures, even those readily available in English, are
1317 3 | Unguided and indiscriminate reading will only lead to mental
1318 2 | Khin), we have acquired a ready technique for keeping mindfulness
1319 1 | freer he is. ~Thinking man realises that there are but four
1320 4 | can be made, even without realising it. For the man who has
1321 1 | and combine in them the realism of human nature and the
1322 1 | Buddha learns to view life realistically which enables him to adjust
1323 1 | and to withdraw from the realities and responsibilities of
1324 3 | operative. It is beyond the realm of duality, which is that
1325 1 | of cause and effect. We reap what we sow, in proportion
1326 2 | farming, by trading, by rearing cattle, by archery, by service
1327 1 | Economic Aspects ~Buddha was a rebel. He rebelled against the
1328 1 | Buddha was a rebel. He rebelled against the way of thought,
1329 1 | Buddhist doctrine of kamma and rebirth can, therefore, improve
1330 1 | beyond the force of all rebirth-producing kamma, skilful and unskilful.
1331 3 | round the weary circle of rebirths, and how karma operates.
1332 3 | ignorant we would not have been reborn. And birth is a necessary
1333 2 | work, we would do well to recall that this situation, too,
1334 2 | circumstances may be. ~Recalling the law of cause and effect,
1335 2 | be famous or infamous, receive praise or blame, experience
1336 1 | choice, of my own kamma. One receives the results of one's own
1337 2 | we are less often at the receiving end of other people's anger.
1338 | recent
1339 2 | when the quality of the recipient also helps to determine
1340 1 | explained to young Sigãla the reciprocal relationships that should
1341 1 | temporarily, to heedlessness, recklessness and mental confusion. Alcohol
1342 3 | facing our own insecurity. Recognising the equal insecurity of
1343 3 | track. It is due to our recognition that all things are transient.
1344 2 | mind. Only gradually can we recondition the mind to operate in channels
1345 4 | emotions more easily, and reduces the fear of what may come
1346 4 | practice we shall find a reduction in our own feeling of tension,
1347 1 | requires the progressive refinement of man's nature, as shown
1348 1 | trade to a lay Buddhist, and refraining from them constitutes Right
1349 1 | Buddhist who, as a rule, refrains from alcoholic drinks and
1350 1 | occasion? Should he accept or refuse? .At least two possible
1351 1 | activity should also be regarded as a means to an end - the
1352 2 | possible means, to what one regards as one's own. This kind
1353 1 | Precepts (Pañ ca Sila). Such regulated behaviour flows from proper
1354 2 | mind-reactions), we are no longer reinforcing the tension sankharas and
1355 1 | Transference of merit, Rejoicing in others' good actions,
1356 2 | of mindfulness and wisdom relating to the ultimate nature of
1357 2 | Noble Eightfold Path in relation to our work -- whether it
1358 1 | children born of premarital relations when deprived and unwanted,
1359 2 | Let us first examine the relationship at work between the three
1360 2 | will find that we have a relatively equanimous and balanced
1361 4 | He should first try to relax, physically as well as mentally,
1362 2 | one part of any job; the remainder is beyond his control. ~
1363 4 | has equipped us with some remarkably efficient sense-organs for
1364 1 | His teachings are still remembered and practised. The more
1365 1 | things as they really are. He remembers the instability of everything
1366 2 | annoyed and shouts at us, we remind ourselves that he is at
1367 2 | channels based on wisdom, by reminding ourselves whenever we notice
1368 2 | scrupulously avoid anything even remotely related to stealing for
1369 1 | the right steps for its removal. It results from wrong seeing,
1370 2 | have undertaken the task of removing all the causes of suffering --
1371 3 | though we might prefer to rename his complex the 'insecurity
1372 1 | therewith, freedom from repeated births and deaths, with
1373 1 | often do things for which we repent later. So some emotional
1374 4 | surface which were previously repressed. But being detached, one
1375 4 | one that discourages or represses their activities. They often
1376 3 | self-deception. Getting rid of our repressions is therefore not doing what
1377 1 | objective, made the the reproductive act of sexual union highly
1378 2 | and if the job seems to require chronic dishonesty in speech
1379 1 | self-mastery. It is a hard fight requiring patient and persistent practice;
1380 3 | by the tough: indeed the resemblance is sometimes striking. Of
1381 1 | do what others do. He can resist the pull of the crowd when
1382 3 | straight back for ten minutes resolved not to make a single voluntary
1383 1 | persuasion and education without resorting to violence; worthy aims
1384 1 | should be kind, loyal and respectful to his wife, supply her
1385 1 | withdraw from the realities and responsibilities of life. If he considers
1386 2 | making oneself directly responsible for encouraging others to
1387 1 | welfare, acts wisely and responsibly in sexual matters. Misconduct
1388 4 | craving and ill-will, sloth, restless worry and indecision. These
1389 4 | friend's problem. He cannot restrain his temper by will-power,
1390 1 | acquisitiveness and self-indulgence resulting later in physical and mental
1391 1 | floods the mind, reason retreats, or disappears, and we often
1392 1 | Generosity, Morality, Meditation, Reverence, Service, Transference of
1393 3 | for insecurity may take a reverse form of exaggerated modesty
1394 4 | sometimes the roles are even reversed ... The reformer looks
1395 1 | himself. There should be a revision of values. A person's worth,
1396 1 | to think that reform by revolution will remedy the ills of
1397 2 | job just helps people keep revolving in dukkha, and so sits back
1398 1 | the mere accumulation of riches for their own sake will
1399 3 | How can we solve this riddle? How can we ever come to
1400 1 | unskilful (akusala) action ripening in the present. ~He sees
1401 2 | on the side of merit that ripens unto cleaving to a new birth?
1402 1 | sex may carry with it the risks of venereal infection. A
1403 1 | as do the waters of the rivers that flow into the sea.
1404 1 | serfs; ~Their lives mould robbers, soldiers, chaplains, kings.~
1405 4 | circumstances, and sometimes the roles are even reversed ...
1406 3 | something airy-fairy or romantic, it is practical. It is
1407 2 | which is tanhã will be the root of one's very Dhamma practise -
1408 3 | case, because this is the root-cause of all our troubles. The
1409 2 | slide and allow our daily routine work to take over and become
1410 1 | of a Buddhist who, as a rule, refrains from alcoholic
1411 2 | are the very basic moral rules for the Buddhist layman.
1412 3 | are called indriyas or 'ruling factors'. This means that
1413 2 | face. At any moment we may run into material gain or loss,
1414 1 | shadow - the faster one runs, the faster it eludes. True
1415 3 | one: the ego is the most ruthlessly gluttonous all-devouring
1416 2 | continually digging deeper mental ruts that will inevitably lead
1417 1 | with incomparable beauty: ~Sabba pãpassa akaranam, ~kusalassa
1418 4 | individual there is a way: ~Sabbapãpassa akaranam, kusalassa upasampadã ~
1419 4 | kusalassa upasampadã ~sacittapariyodapanam _ etam Buddãna sãsanam.~'
1420 1 | kusalassa upasampadã ~Sacittapariyodãpanam ~etam Buddhãnusãsanam. ~
1421 3 | minds of murderous rage, sadism, treachery and disloyalty
1422 4 | without knowing it, a 'safe' or 'legitimate' outlet
1423 1 | to go through space and sail across the seas, but not
1424 1 | only at the third stage of Sainthood, that of Anãgãmi. When a
1425 1 | the traffic in, and the sale of, females for commercial
1426 3 | Buddhism, in modern terms, is 'sales-resistance': cultivating at least a
1427 2 | sila on the Path. ~The samãdi section of the Path during
1428 2 | the category of wisdom. Sammã-ditthi, Right Understanding or
1429 2 | means of Right Thought, sammã-sankappa, the remaining Path-and-Wisdom-factor,
1430 2 | here is not the same as the sammã-sati of the Noble Eightfold Path,
1431 2 | to prolong the misery of samsãra. We should not, however,
1432 2 | reinforcing the tension sankharas and so the next time they
1433 4 | sacittapariyodapanam _ etam Buddãna sãsanam.~'Cease to do evil, learn
1434 2 | unrelenting effort.~Sammã sati, Right Mindfulness or Awareness,
1435 3 | more apparently tangible satisfactions in the way of sex, money,
1436 1 | give adequate wages, ensure satisfactory conditions of work and service
1437 1 | Earning a Living ~Men work to satisfy the primary or basic urges
1438 1 | everything else being taken away save this. But this, one's character,
1439 2 | taught in the tradition of Sayaji U Ba Khin), we have acquired
1440 4 | the mental equivalent of saying 'I have a sore place which
1441 1 | Therefore, he is mindful of a scale of values - knowing clearly
1442 4 | the Buddhist training it scarcely matters whether there is
1443 3 | unreal and therefore we are sceptical about it, but this scepticism
1444 2 | plan our purchases or work schedule or ignore the future implications
1445 1 | existence and his place in the scheme of things. It suggests the
1446 2 | all the time, keeping it scheming up more plans or 'solving
1447 1(1)| See E.F.S. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful. (Blond &
1448 1 | keeping with the finding of science, no moral blindness for
1449 2 | the time there is ample scope for him to work wisely,
1450 1 | rivers that flow into the sea. No caste, class or race
1451 3 | principle of all Buddhism. The search for a 'self' behind all
1452 1 | space and sail across the seas, but not how to live on
1453 1 | There is no special mating season for humans, and males and
1454 2 | meditation. ~The remaining sections of the Noble Eightfold Path
1455 1 | step to improving it: the secular (such as his physical, mental
1456 4 | the right view. ~I am not seeking to disparage these people
1457 2 | watching so that kings may not seize it, thieves may not steal
1458 3 | Dependent Origination shows by selecting twelve prominent factors
1459 3 | grasp it as long as the self-concept (or feeling) is operative.
1460 1 | spiritual, through careful self-examination and observation, by past
1461 1 | unbridled acquisitiveness and self-indulgence resulting later in physical
1462 1 | the only way the achieve self-mastery. It is a hard fight requiring
1463 4 | emotional states (perhaps self-pity, anger, or the like) without
1464 1 | together with self-respect and self-reliance. Finally, this teaching
1465 1 | adult to practise sexual self-restraint till such time as he is
1466 3 | and slightly ostentatious self-sacrifice. This latter is a form of
1467 4 | detachment is not a kind of selfish flight from the world, but
1468 3 | man to whom Christ said 'Sell all that thou hast and give
1469 2 | someone else's beef ranch or selling packaged meat is acceptable
1470 3 | applies to our precious selves as much as to anything else.
1471 4 | for other similar, perhaps semi-political causes they believe in,
1472 2 | in any case we attempt to send him mettã and not let anger
1473 3 | Thus, too, feeling based on sense-impressions is a necessary condition
1474 4 | He may be detached from sense-objects for the moment, but not
1475 4 | some remarkably efficient sense-organs for doing so. ~With our
1476 1 | where sex is seen, heard, sensed and thought of most of the
1477 4 | is a lot of this sort of senseless destructiveness about nowadays.
1478 1 | instinct becomes active, and sensible parents should guide and
1479 4 | deliver an infinite number of sentient beings of our own mind'. ~
1480 1 | true security and a true serenity. ~ ~Or again, there is
1481 1 | farmers, tradesmen, merchants, serfs; ~Their lives mould robbers,
1482 3 | consciousness is just a series of states of awareness,
1483 4 | we once took with deadly seriousness are in fact extremely funny.
1484 1 | Mano pubbangamadhammã Mano Setthã Mano Maya). ~However, this
1485 2 | Dhamma in middle age and is settled into a career with little
1486 2 | has been taken, the mind settles back down into the job of
1487 2 | is developing the other seven Path factors while earning
1488 1 | constitutes Right Livelihood, the seventh step of the Path. They are:
1489 2 | once in a while, are not so severe because the full responsibility
1490 1 | No doubt he lives in a sex-drenched commercial civilisation
1491 1 | and finally remove all shades of craving or desire that
1492 1 | chase, akin to chasing one's shadow - the faster one runs, the
1493 1 | there is nothing sinful or shameful in sex, nor does it carry
1494 1 | wisdom and the like, but also shapes one's future, where one
1495 1 | when Buddhism became the shaping ideal of the State, and
1496 0 | of a lay-follower: ~He shares the joys and the sorrows
1497 2 | be doing his job well and sharing his peace of mind, mettã (
1498 3 | factors, the mind can be sharpened to an instrument capable
1499 | she
1500 1 | helpful to one another, and a sheltering tree in time of need; employers
1501 4 | the same case! A slight shift in viewpoint or circumstances,
1502 2 | reasonable possibility of shifting to one more strictly in