One day, a family invited guests to their home for a religions rite for the great-grandparent. After the ceremony, when all the guests had left, the son asked the father,
กิเลส คือ สิ่งที่แฝงติดอยู่ในใจแล้วทำให้ใจเศร้าหมองขุ่นมัว มีอุปมาเหมือนสีที่ใส่ลงไปในน้ำทำให้น้ำมีสีเหมือนสีที่ใส่ลงไป ใจก็เช่นกัน ปกติก็ใสสะอาด แต่กลายเป็นใจดำ ใจง่าย ใจร้าย
As human beings, we have to live and work with others in society. We negatively affect society when we consider only what we want, what we like, and what we can accomplish.
“(I count amongst my) noble disciples those who have the self-discipline to refrain from the Four Defilements of Action, who restrain themselves from the Four Forms of Bias and who do not indulge in the Six Directions…”
คนที่กิเลสครอบงำใจ ไร้การบังคับตนเองและไร้สัตย์ ถึงจะครองผ้ากาสาวพัสตร์ ก็หาคู่ควรไม่
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?
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Fifth Group of Blessings. Blessing Eighteen :- Blameless Work.
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Fourth Group of Blessings. Blessing Twelve :- Raising our children.
The Three Signs of Existence [tilakkhana] that are exhibited by all material things are impermanence [aniccam], suffering [dukkham] and not –self [anatta]
