TEN RIGHT VIEWS: A Path to Generosity and Understanding Kamma : หน้า 36/47
Training the trainer part 1 : หน้า 36/47 Explore the ten right views focusing on generosity, respect, and the impact of our actions on our lives and the next. Understand the Law of Kamma and its significance.
This text outlines the ten right views that promote a deeper understanding of generosity, respect, and the consequences of one's actions in light of Kamma. Starting with generosity, it emphasizes the importance of sharing what we have and supporting others to foster goodwill and alleviate suffering. Each right view builds upon the previous one, showing the role of virtuous actions in gaining respect and understanding the consequences of both wholesome and unwholesome deeds. The text highlights the importance of belief in the existence of this world and the next, connecting our actions across lifetimes. Furthermore, it discusses the influence of parents and the merit necessary to be born into favorable circumstances, thus guiding the continuation of good Kamma. The insights provided encourage readers to reflect on their actions and strive for a life enriched by generosity and virtuous deeds. For more information, visit dmc.tv.
หัวข้อประเด็น
- Generosity and sharing - Importance of support - Respect through virtuous actions - Wholesome vs unwholesome actions - Law of Cause and Effect - Reality of this world - Belief in the next world - Influence of parents in Kamma
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TEN RIGHT VIEWS
1) Generosity Bears Fruit
The first step of your training is learning to give up something of which you have more than you need and to give to someone whom you love or for whom you care. Learning to give up something you don’t need is called sharing. We can share knowledge, experience, things and forgiveness. These are steps you can take to slowly develop your understanding of kamma.
2) Giving Support Bears Fruit
Once we practice more and more sharing, we will develop the spontaneous desire to give to others, even though we may be giving something that we ourselves may need, but we consider others may need it more. We give it to them because we want to alleviate their suffering and protect them from bad things. Giving to others bears fruit in that it removes suspicion and promotes love and goodwill between the giver and the receiver.
We advance to the next level of our training when we start inspiring others to engage in the habit of generosity and giving support which ensures the continuity of sharing, compassion and charity. The continuity is the fruitful effect of our actions in inspiring others with this right view that motivates people to overcome life’s obstacles together rather than each individual looking out only for themselves.
3) Giving Respect Bears Fruit
People that perform wholesome deeds command respect from others, and the trainer should find inspiration and guidance from those whom are observed to perform good deeds by respecting their virtuous thoughts, words and actions. By emulating these virtuous people others will in turn respect you; this is the fruit of observing and practising respect.
4) Consequences of Wholesome and Unwholesome Actions
Virtuous people provide the example of the consequences of our right views and the fruits that are to be harvested from wholesome deeds, while people who do not practice right views offer us an example by the suffering and retribution they attract as a result of their actions. This means that each action, be it good or bad, has good and bad effects respectively and is the basis of understanding the Law of Cause and Effect, or Kamma.
5) Belief in the Reality and Existence of This World
Through Dharma study and meditation we are able to gain a better understanding of the Law of Kamma. We become aware of the existence of this world and how it is affected by our actions in previous lifetimes. What we have done in the past will have the result of what we experience in the present. What we do in the present will have far reaching effects into the future. By this realization we acknowledge the reality and existence of this world.
6) Belief in the Reality and Existence of the Next World
Once we believe in the existence of this world and understand the Law of Cause and Effect, it follows that what we do now will have an affect on all that follows and so from this lifetime to the next. Understanding one’s karma is affected in this way, by our thoughts words and actions, and that our karma was present at birth, it follows that karma we were born with is the result of our previous lifetimes and what we do in this lifetime will carry forth to our next lifetime. By this realization we acknowledge the reality of the existence of the next world or the hereafter.
7) & 8) Mothers and Fathers are Influential Figures
The circumstances and parents to which we are born are a direct result of the kamma we have accumulated in previous lives. To be born into propitious Right View family circumstances we have to accumulate sufficient merit by our thoughts, words and actions. Once we are born into such circumstances we owe our parents a debt of gratitude as we are well positioned to continue to accumulate more and more merit, or good kamma, with each rebirth.