English Meditation Class // July 9, 2016 - DMC Boston, USA
On Saturday July 9, 2016, Dhammakaya Meditation Center Boston arranged an English meditation class.
Conclusions
Our Human Environment in the Six Directions includes those who are the most influential in our lives
Mechanism # 4 : Practising our Dutise in the Six Directions & Conserving the Environment
When talking of our environment, the Lord Buddha meant both the people that surround us and the natural environment that surrounds us:
Target Character Trait # 4 : Responsibility towards the Environment
Having responsibility towards the environment means having responsibility both towards the natural environment (by conservation) and our immediate human environment (by performing our duties towards the ‘ six directions’ discussed earlier).
The Enemy in Friend’s Clothes
Our society today is a real melting point of different sorts of people, good and bad. There are a noticeable number of bad people in the world as we hear on the news
Social Disaster : 4. The Relationship between Friends
If a person does not cherish his or her friends according to the duties described in the Six Directions, the harm that will come to them can be concluded on three levels
Filtering Out False Friends
The majority of people around the world from the Lord Buddha’s time until now have been under the misconception that success and failure in life depend mainly on the environment around them.
Social Disaster : 5. The Boss-Employee Relationship
If an employer and an employee are undisciplined and do not cherish harmony in the workplace according to the teachings of the Six Directions
The Meaning of a True Friend
In the previous chapter we defined the meaning of ‘friends’ as those in whom we invest time, energy and respurces for example, someone with whom we associate regularly, working together or at least in the same place. In fact, such a definition is only a small part of a much wider scope of meaning covered by the word ‘friend’
Social Disaster : 3. The Husband-Wife Relationship
With or without divorce, the consequences of marital neglect are far-reaching. If a husband and wife do not cherish one another according to the advice of the Buddha
