The first important quality to be a [good] Dharma students is honesty
The first of three important qualities to be a [good] Dharma students is honesty. Honesty is very important. For students, to be honest is very important.
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Dharma students should be intelligent to understand the qualities of Dharma teachers
The second one is also knowledge. One should be intelligent to understand the qualities of Dharma teachers.
If you do not try hard and continuously practice, then you cannot get anywhere
Diligence is the third one. Because when one doesn’t put any efforts, then one still doesn’t get anywhere, even one have knowledge.
The meaning of human life is to help others by opening our hearts to them
”How do we use it?” The answer from Buddhist tradition is very clear. It is a great way, good way; it is valuable because this [life] would be lost. Therefore, while we have this human being knowledge, human life and many opportunities, we should use it and [know] how to use it. Therefore, it is very important to understand the value of the time that we have now.
Wishing others to be free from sufferings is not enough – we have to put wishes into actions
What is compassion? Compassion means to wish, to have genuine wish that others are able to avoid or reduce sufferings. Compassion means you really wish, from the bottom of your heart, that any sufferings of others will diminish.
In order to have great motivation, we must see the sufferings, to see troubles of samsara
To develop Bodhicitta, to develop renunciation, it is very important for a Dharma practitioner to see things in the society, to see problems, to see sufferings, to see troubles that are in society. Without seeing this, without knowing this, one does not have interest to develop this motivation.
We should have very pure, very kind mind in order to have kind and sweet actions
The action should be peaceful action, always requested by the Buddha teaching. Therefore, we have to have a good way of creating non-violence action or karma, conduct. Also, motivation in the mind. We have to have a good mind, so that we can have good action. We should have very pure or very kind mind so that we can have kind action and sweet action.
Once our view reaches at high level, all of these things like fame, wealth, all of these, become actually like children’s toys
There are two parts, two important parts or qualities that make Buddhism is Buddhism. One is view, one is action or conduct.
All phenomena appear due to many factors, due to interdependent origination
When Buddha turned all of the Dharma wheels, especially Dharma wheel on the Mahayana and one the Prajnaparamita, Buddha teaches all phenomena exist due to many factors, due to interdependent origination. There is nothing exists truly or has its nature, but according to a lot of conditions; and things, phenomena do not have essence, do not have any nature.
Selfishness is the main cause to create all negative for self and others
What causes all the troubles and misunderstanding, unhappiness is so-called “selfishness”. Because our nature is ordinary people, we are so much self-centered people. We put ourselves in the best and in the very center and then we try to serve, we try to do anything we can for oneself.
