The first and most important factor in influencing social development is the quality of the relationship between parents and their children
No-one in the world is perfect. Therefore we must know how to interact with the different social groups around us in order to pick up the positive core values we lack from them
All that has been mentioned in the forgoing chapter are virtues which need to be instilled in the hearts of the people destined for self-improvement-because anyone with positive core values has the seeds of growing up into the sort of person for whom society is crying out.
The Buddha divided this category of suffering into two parts material disappointment and abstract disappointment
The Buddha characterized this form of suffering as that which produces tears of anguish whenever we are unable to give up our attachment to something
The Artistry Behind Preaching the Four Noble Truths In the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta as in his other sermons
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)
Bias because of desire [chandagati]; results in unjust treatment due to the influence of personal love and pleasure.
I use the mantra ‘Samma Arahang’ (which means ‘purify the mind’) repeating silently three times at each key point, until resting my mind at the seventh base.
We are born as human beings and it is natural that we have to confront both positive and negative changes throughout our lives.
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