This text emphasizes the significance of self-training and self-control in leading a fulfilling life. By acknowledging the need to change negative habits, individuals can foster a healthier family environment. It discusses four areas of endurance necessary for human existence: adapting to unfavorable environments, managing physical suffering, and navigating conflicts with others. The journey to self-improvement requires perseverance and a commitment to change, sometimes involving significant personal sacrifice. The writer suggests that while challenging, embracing these concepts will lead to a stronger family foundation and self-development. Visit dmc.tv for more insights.
Those who have full knowledge, ability and goodness
must follow only this path in order to train themselves to keep
up with the world and its people, and not surrender to
defilements.
Surely, if you follow this road, you will have to go against
your will, you will need to control your mind, and sometimes
you will hurt your mind, just as if you were suffering from a
bleeding heart.
The reason that you must control your mind and go against
your will is because if a type of training cannot change one's
habits, it cannot be considered self-training.
For example, if you are unable to change a habit like
snacking, which is not easy to do, or unable to change a habit
like sleeping in, using unpleasant words when speaking, or
talking back to your parents, you have to find the right method
to correct yourself, including training yourself to not be
careless. This is not easy to do so. For some of us, it may take
our entire lives to correct these bad habits, and we are not
even counting the more serious habits of drinking, jealousy
and gambling.
Therefore, for a family to have a strong foundation, the
family members must have self-control or dama as the
second habit.
3) Endurance or khanti corrects the problems of
people being tired of each other.
Khanti means endurance.
Why must we have endurance? We must have endurance
because if someone wants to increase goodness within
themselves, that person must have endurance to exchange with
goodness.
Having been born as humans, what do we have to endure?
The answer is there are 4 areas of endurance that are part of
our human condition:
3.1) We must endure a natural environment that is
not favorable to us, such as the sun's strong rays, heavy wind
and rain, etc.
3.2) We must endure suffering, which means, we must
endure the unfavorable conditions that our physical body
experiences, such as sickness, without creating an uproar or
excessive complaints.
3.3) We must endure conflict, which means, we must
endure other people.
The truth is that we must accept that we have weaknesses
which we have displayed, feelings we have that go against
our will, and events that do not go as planned. In particular,
when we work quickly, or when we require meticulousness,
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