Being Responsible for the Environment
Besides, taking the three responsibilities: self, society, and ethical economy, good people are also responsible for the environment. Air, water, soil, forest, and weather are important for our living.
True Happiness and Inner Peace
Meditation is aimed for peace and happiness. The real nature of meditation is the lesson learned by experience, by the feeling inside or by the inner self.
Making the Five Precepts Easy for Children to Understand
Once, I had the chance to observe a senior monk simplify the Five Precepts for the children.
Ordaining for One’s Parents Brings Merit
In this day and age of ever-present temptations and perpetual pressure to make a living, it is especially rare to find any family with a son who ordains as a Buddhist monk for at least the period of Buddhist Lent
Selling Poverty
My brother in law had kidney failure, but he did not want to have treatment because he wanted to save money to make donations for the kathin ceremony at the hometown temple. He said that my sister wanted to make a donation for this kathin ceremony but she died before she could do it. He was afraid that when he wanted to make a donation, he would also die before having the opportunity. Why is it so difficult to make this merit? "You can see that we have to make merit quickly. We should not wait."
Meditation Homework for Daily Life
The “10 Homework” is technique to the inner happiness, to the fruitful of meditation, to be beloved person.
Core Value#1: Sharing is desirable
This is an attitude to the world which sees the importance of sharing what one has with others, whether it be the things we eat, the things we use, our time, our knowledge or a helping hand, It doesn’t mean that everything needs to be equally shared, but it means that a person shouldn’t believe that it ought to be ‘every man to himself’.
What kind of knowledge does Buddhism provide for their benefit?
My students often ask the question that when other school subjects they study provide them with various types of knowledge regarding managing the Four Basic Requisites in their everyday lives, then what kind of knowledge does Buddhism provide for their benefit?
Self-Discipline in allocating one’s earnings
The Lord Buddha not only taught scrupulous ethics for earning a living, but also how earnings should be allocated so that one can live without financial problems
Taking Responsibility for Ourselves
Why do some people not take responsibility for themselves? “Nobody taught me” is just a bad excuse. People always have opportunities and choices. How we respond to things depends on how we perceive them. There are many good and bad things in this world.
