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as animals, or born into bad places. There are various levels of these: (1) born as an animal (and that includes ANY animal), (2) born as a Hungry Ghost, (3) born as a monster, (4) Go to one of the various levels of Hell. Retribution is like throwing a stone in the air, you know that it will eventually, but always, come down. Or kicking a ball. It will move forward for awhile but then it will eventually stop. It could be rolling into the future, but it will eventually stop rolling. "Wholesome acts are, of course, just the opposite of the unwholesome ones. Anyone who has the Right View is like the first sunlight in the morning. And the person who has the ten wholesome actions going on in their lives has the Right View, the Right 'theory' or philosophy of life. And there are four Right Views: (1) Sharing. This is the way to live in the world together. All humans (and animals) need to share. Just as teachers share knowledge, we need to share our good fruit because we need to give something good in order to bring happiness. Sharing is really the basis of life and will deteriorate our impure elements. When we are trying to refuel our four elements, we realize that the resources are unequally distributed if we do not share. When we share, we have a livable world. (2) Charity. In times of trouble, if the whole village has the problem, whose problem is it? The only caution would be that to offer assistance must be creative and truly helpful. (3) Encouragement and Respect. If we want good things to happen, then we have to do things. In order to create good vibes in the universe, we need to create boon. If you lose the feeling of doing good works, or your students lose the feeling that they are not being encouraged to do their best, then it is easier to wake the dead. So we must be encouraging to our students to do their homework, for example. (4) The result of a good and bad action exists. People must see this to believe it unfortunately, because they really don't believe it. "There are reasons why we are living the way we are living in this world. If we are wealthy or poor, there are reasons for this. How we are today is an accumulation of what we were up until today. There is a reason for why we are here and what we will be doing tomorrow. Although we cannot correct the past, we can certainly change the future - today and tomorrow. There is a reason for the next life, or the future in this life. This can be designed, depending on how we live the right view. We should not necessarily be caught in familiarity: Take, for example, the bee and the fly. The bee goes to the flower and the fly goes to garbage. Why? Because that is what they are used to doing! "Our mother is our first most significant figure because she is the first person to instill values. Without her wisdom, we may not be human unless our mother is human. She is"