Concepts for the instilling of Core Values

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Concepts for the instilling of Core Values

 

Innstilling positive core values is impossible unless emphasis is placed on regular training.

 

All that has been mentioned in the forgoing chapter are virtues which need to be instilled in the hearts of the people destined for self-improvement-because anyone with positive core values has the seeds of growing up into the sort of person for whom society is crying out.

 

Innstilling positive core values is impossible unless emphasis is placed on regular training. The success of such training depends on many factors, such as the natural environment, the human environment and the state of society as a whole. If these factors are amenable, training will meet with success without undue difficulty.

 

Such training however, cannot be expected to keep up with the proliferating problems of society if people are to be trained one-by-one. Training needs to take place on a large scale in society if it is to be effective. It is necessary for the piblic at large to undergo systematic training on the level of nations and continents.

 

 

If these factors are amenable, training will meet with success without undue difficulty.

 

The question remains what sort of system cauld cope with such a large scale of training-and in fact we are fortunate to find that such a system was left behind for us in the legacy of the Lord Buddha’s teachings 2,500 years ago in the Singalovada Sutta-a teaching concerning the systematic upgrading of human potential-a system applicable to whole societies, whole nations and eventually to the whole world. Thus, it is a timely moment for all with a sense of social responsibility earnestly to re-examine these valuable teachings and find ways to apply them in their daily lives. You have to start by practising them for yourself until you can be an exemplar to the rest of the world-so that by your example you can instil others with the confidence that these teachings present a real solution for others and for society at large to the point where those others open themselves up to the virtue you exemplofy and would like others to be the same.

 

It is this system that is detailed in the chapters to follow..

 

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