The Noble Truth of Suffering : 8. Resentment

The Buddha characterized this form of suffering as that which makes us aggressively sensitive about a particular thing

False Friendship 4: The One Who Leads You Down the Road to Ruin

Basically, the one who leads you down the road to ruin likes persuading you to do bad, unnecessary, or useless things.

The Benefits of Mixing with The Wise:

A person who keeps the company of wise ones has:1. A clear, bright mind and is able to perform good deeds

The benefits from studying on True Friend characteristics

“…the wise man [pandita] knows four kinds of True Friends well. They are: The Helpful Friend [upakaraka], the Constant Friend [samanasukhadukkha]

The Noble Truth of Suffering : 5. Sorrow [soka dukkha]

The Buddha characterized the suffering of sorrow as afflicting one with burning in the heart as if the mind has list all refreshedness

Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta: The Sermon

Something which you will find at the beginning of every sutta are Ananda’s words ‘Euam me sutam…’: i.e. ‘Thus have I heard (directly from the Lord Buddha)

Why we have to study the Blessings?

There is one interesting point of life. Only studying a lot to achieve great intelligence in order to have a good job and to earn a lot o9f money is not enough to be born as a human being

The Noble Truth of Suffering : 4. Suffering as a result of Dying [marana dukkha]

All living beings have to undergo death before they are able to leave one existence for the next

Everyone’s goal of life can be classified into 3 levels : 2. Middle goal of life

The aim is at not only trying to have sufficient in this entire life, but also to set future life goals, by using every possible opportunity to act in meritorious ways

Having Moral Conduct.

Before knowing what good and bad deeds is, or what merit and sin is, we have to have already performed many bad deeds. Certainly, when bad deeds bear fruit we nust have been affected by what we did.