When I was in high school, there was a semester when I spent time with friends who felt that smoking was fine, skipping classes was fun, going to bars or night clubs was great (we were younger than 18 at that time), and not listening to parents’ advice was cool.
People who are enthusiastic, patient, and charitable do good things, and therefore these people are the ones with whom we want to cooperate.
The Buddha characterized the suffering of sorrow as afflicting one with burning in the heart as if the mind has list all refreshedness
This phrase means setting the main goal of life as good and positive, with stable foundations and an optimistic future for this life time and others
According to the Buddha, the practice of self-mortification [attakilamathanuyoga] is fruitless
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?
Actually a human has to face lot of problems in his/her life, which have to be solved with wisdom {Panna}. Therefore humans need wisdom.
A hungry dog had only gruel enough for seven days. On the 8 th day he wanted to eat rice. He then had rice for seven days.
The Lord Buddha stresses that the three categories of defilement: greed, hatred and delusion are like usurpers in the mind. They darken our minds and obstruct us from enlightenment.
When the mind is obscured by defilements, it is constricted like being imprisoned in a small dark room. Just as one who is imprisoned alone becomes paranoid about possible dangers, the first impulse will be to save his own skin.
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