Meditation

Conclusions

Our Human Environment in the Six Directions includes those who are the most influential in our lives

The Blessings: The cause of progress and prosperity

The progress in this life. For example, when we are children, we can be successful in our education

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

What are the Blessings of Life?

Many scholars once said that the Blessings of Life are the ways that lead to progress, happiness, and prosperity

The Good Friend must be Scrupulous

The most time-consuming activity in a person’s life is to earn a living. How should a true friend earn a living, one may ask?

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]

Summary

Those who wish happiness in this life, the next life and the most happiness so as to extinguish all the defilements to reach Nirvana, have to develop themselves by following the steps to happiness

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’

A Mind Free Of Particles Of Defilements.

A particle means fine dust, which is so small that eyes could hardly see it. It could only be seen when sticking to something clean like a looking glass. In small quantities of particles, we still could not see them

A Mind Free of Sorrow.

It’s unavoidable for every one to face the eight worldly conditions except for the enlightened one or the noble one whose mind is kept calm and collected no matter what pleasant or unpleasant objects come to him/her

Why do we need to identify our false friends?

Naturally we need to carefully observe the behaviors of those with whom we associate. It may to be easy to be able to tell what kind of a person they are because the persons may appear as our friends when is fact they could be false friends or even enemies

A Mind Free Of Worldly Vicissitudes.

The mind is the nature of thought inside our body and can collect and assimilate all kinds of sense-objects

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

Thoroughly Attaining Nirvana.

Is there any place in the world that is without suffering? No. How come Prince Siddhartha became ordained?

With False Friends, who needs enemies?

The word ‘friend’ here refers to people in whom we invest time, trust and resources

Attaining The Four Noble Truths.

The Lord Buddha said, “According to the real basics of life, life is suffering, which we don’t know.” As a metaphor for this saying

Noone can prosper in a social vacuum

…he regarded the people around us as an important factor contributing to one’s prosperity or deterioration. Working alone, one cannot be successful

Celibacy conduct.

After having burned away grasses and having uprooted the fields, the gardeners and agriculturists quickly have to set seeds needed to be planted in the ground at once

Ascetic Practice.

After having padded the 30 steps of life, we found that there are many bad habits such as improper manners we display that are is need of much improvement.

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.