The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Associate with the Wise (4)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The First Group of Blessings. Blessing Two :- Associate with the Wise
Characteristics of People who Are Skillful in Application of knowledge
We have to believe that what we do is right and beneficial. We have to be committed so we gain the correct outcomes
The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Expressing Respect to Those Worthy of Respect (4)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The First Group of Blessings. Blessing Three :- Expressing Respect to Those Worthy of Respect
The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Expressing Respect to Those Worthy of Respect (2)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The First Group of Blessings. Blessing Three :- Expressing Respect to Those Worthy of Respect.
A Mind Free Of Worldly Vicissitudes.
The mind is the nature of thought inside our body and can collect and assimilate all kinds of sense-objects
My daughter loves merit and is afraid of sin but she has no sense of responsibility. Will she gain merit from behaving this way? How should we guide her so that she realizes what she is doing?
My daughter loves merit and is afraid of sin. She wakes up in the morning to do the morning chanting. Then she sleeps almost until noon. In the evening, she does the evening chanting and then watches TV until late at night. She has no sense of responsibility and relies on her parents to take care of her although she is a full grown adult. Will she gain merit from behaving this way? How should we guide her so that she realizes what she is doing?
Target Character Trait # 1: Responsibility for ones own human dignity
The first three defilements of actions are physical evil action. The fourth is verbal evil action. The fourth is verbal evil action.
Creating the virtuous society for which the world awaits The kind of Society the World Awaits
In this chapter we will not only meet the word’ Good Friend’ [kalyanamitra] in addition to the ‘True Friend’
The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Artfulness in Speech (3)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Third Group of Blessings. Blessing Ten :- Artfulness in Speech.
Why do we need to identify our false friends?
Naturally we need to carefully observe the behaviors of those with whom we associate. It may to be easy to be able to tell what kind of a person they are because the persons may appear as our friends when is fact they could be false friends or even enemies