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Meetings with a Dhamma Master is a more coarse way to judge good and/or bad, we might not have the best way but at least people can live with one another. In addition to custom or tradition, we can also use the law where there is evidence and/or a witness. But law can have a true and a false interpretation: Or, the law can be good or bad depending on the interpretation because if we are judging by custom, then it will be coarse. It depends on each situation and the people, and that is why the Buddha taught to all the people, not just to specific people. Not just an overview, but everything - all 84,000 teachings. And that was just the beginning. 2PM “How do we judge good and bad actions according to the Buddhist way? There are standards, but it is difficult to find an equal to this because in other religions we cannot see our own mind and the defilements in our mind. So in order to actually figure out Kamma and the source of Kamma it is difficult because there is no clear measure of good and bad. It depends a great deal on intention. If we do not preserve the land, then the mind of the people will not be able to see the good and bad and then the people will be in conflict. Just as it has been throughout history, the country and the people will be separated. This is what happened recently in 1989 with the USSR. The country split into many countries because they did not know what was good and what was bad throughout their history. The way to keep Thailand intact is to keep Buddhism because if we cannot keep it, then we will lose the line between good and bad. Until 1973, we had a teaching curriculum that was based on Buddhist principles and practices. But it changed during that year because the Minister of Education was not a Buddhist. A country has to have the ten right views as a basis for correct teaching because it gives a clear line or delineation of what is good and what is bad. Because we define kamma as action with intention, everything we do has kammic consequences but it also depends on whether or not we are people who have significant defilements. If our mind is pure, our action does not result in kammic action. But we need to be very careful because even though we may have good wishes, deep down inside, we have defilement, and our sincerity is not there. Therefore, the Buddha could do things and not reap kammic consequences because He had no defilement. This applies to Arahants as well.