The Impact of Selfishness and Bias on Society Training the trainer part 1 หน้า 25
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Selfishness and bias lead to suffering when individuals prioritize self-interest over communal support. In families and communities facing problems, this behavior results in conflict. Bias manifests in love, anger, wrong views, and fear, disrupting peace. Without education promoting virtue, selfishness and bias perpetuate suffering. Educating individuals about the impacts of their actions cultivates empathy and harmony. Teachers play a crucial role in instilling open-mindedness in students for better coexistence. Recognizing shared humanity is essential for overcoming discrimination and bias. Good behavior nurtured from an early age prepares individuals for life's challenges and helps eliminate suffering. Parents must be knowledgeable to guide their children appropriately, ensuring they acquire good habits and understanding to accumulate positive karma, avoiding the generational transfer of suffering.

หัวข้อประเด็น

- Selfishness and Its Consequences
- Bias and Its Categories
- Education's Role in Moral Development
- Empathy and Community Support
- Overcoming Discrimination
- Good Behavior and Karma

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Selfishness leads to suffering when each person thinks mainly about his or her own benefit rather than giving support, encouragement and material things to others. When problems occur in the family, group or community, if there is lack of cooperation and people behave selfishly then suffering and conflict will transpire. Bias manifests itself in four categories: love, anger, wrong view and fear. Families, groups and communities that suffer from selfishness and bias cannot be peaceful as each individual acts only in self-interest to the detriment of others, causing conflict and disharmony. Without education this lack of consideration for others will be impossible to overcome as personal selfishness and bias are very powerful causes of suffering, both to the individual and to the others around them. To solve the problems and sufferings that arise due to selfishness and bias, structural education that develops virtue and morality will lead each individual to recognise the sufferings caused by their own selfishness and bias. With educated guidance individuals will be encouraged to learn the standards and benefits of making boon in their own lives for the good of others. There are three ways an individual may do this, this are by giving, by keeping the precepts and by meditation. With these three practices individuals will develop empathy with others and the ability to create harmony and happiness between themselves and others. Their sufferings from selfishness and bias will be eliminated and conflict will turn to consideration, cooperation and support. To cultivate the nature of living together in society and creating virtue, teachers need to instil a sense of open-mindedness in their students in order that they are able to live easily side by side with others that may not share their own views, values and outlook on life. The student must understand that nobody in this world is perfect and that it is not better to be richer or poorer, an agnostic or a believer and so on, but what is important and makes a good human being is measured by the thoughts, words and actions of that individual. Not all human beings will be good, nor will they all be bad; the student must be encouraged to understand and practise reasoned tolerance to integrate successfully within society. It is also important that the student recognizes and overcomes discrimination towards others, be it due to age, gender, handicap, race, religion, status or a partner. No one can live alone in this world; each individual is directly or indirectly linked to others through environmental, social, economic and political factors from which we cannot escape. As human beings we all share these influences that affect our lives. Only by people working together under the common definition of ‘human beings’ are we able to overcome or manage the problems these influences have; this may only be achieved by overcoming discrimination and bias. Good Behaviour Correctly and morally taught from an early age to pay respect to and understand the true nature of what it is to be a human being, especially with regard to the cause and effects of thoughts, words and deeds in daily life and the human suffering encountered, will undoubtedly create the most favourable conditions for the pupil to achieve full potential in this lifetime. The good habits and conduct that the pupil acquires will alleviate or eliminate the three sufferings of living one’s life, living together and repelling kilesa. This is the ultimate goal of education in the realm of Buddhism, to educate the individual as well as society at large. Immediately, after the birth of a new human being, the parents must have sufficient education and knowledge to sustain the refueling of the baby’s four elements and provide protection, education and guidance. If the parents do not have sufficient knowledge to do this, the baby will not thrive but become physically weak, or be of poor health, and fail to grow and develop good habits. As a child, teenager and adult he or she will not have the acquired knowledge and understanding to be able to accumulate good kamma by reasoned thought and actions. Inevitably, kilesa will generate bad kamma and resultant sufferings will follow. As previously explained, kilesa is transferred through our kamma from lifetime to lifetime; even a baby will be subject to these sufferings. For example, when hungry, and if not fed at the appropriate times, a baby will suffer the emotion of anger, clutching and kicking out aggressively towards its mother because of the defilements already implanted in the mind.
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