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Being Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life by Hsing Yun, Tom Graham

Being Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life Hsing Yun, Tom Graham ebook
ISBN: 9781932293340
Format: pdf
Publisher: Buddha's Light Publishing
Page: 195

In the last five years we have been trying to offer the teachings in non-Buddhist circles through classes in Europe and Hong Kong. "The plain tea and light food of everyday life are the deep meaning of the Buddha's teaching and the instructions of the ancestors." -- Dogen, "Kajo" ("Everyday Life"). The sangha is in the 5-Day Applied Ethics Retreat as part of the spring Asian Tour. But more than this, it means adopting the basic worldview that is the only real hope that humanity has -- the fundamental recognition of the fragility and interconnectedness of all life and the compassion for it that is a by-product of that recognition. Buddhism is about transcending delusions and the patterns and pathways we are locked into, so human perception is clear and unbiased. By Master Hsing Yun; translated by Tom Graham. In the Buddhist worldview of my upbringing, the livelihood of a human being must be based on one basic criterion -- do no harm. He had been warned that if his son was exposed to the kind of life people experience every day, a life marked by suffering, that his son would likely become a great teacher instead of a ruler. As to anatta & Dhamma being concepts or "hopelessly detached notions" that laypeople can't get to grips with in anything but intellectual or faith-based contexts, I guess that may well be the case for most of usin the beginning. Good to read that you're recovering from your recent challenges, Justin. This is the final talk of the retreat. The talk is given in English with simultaneous translation into Thai. However, despite his father's best efforts, the Since it is primarily a particular set of practices, essentially an ethic, the validity of the Buddhist worldview rises and falls on whether or not Buddhism succeeds as an ethical system. Back on and in search of Buddhist Ethics These sound nice, but also seem hopelessly detached from our daily lives, and thus pretty useless as ethical guidance. We have now started What is being and non-being? New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1999, 176 pages, ISBN 0-8348-0458-1, US $14.95. How do we apply the dharma into our daily lives? Buddhist Ethics for a Harm-Free Livelihood: An Open Letter to the CEO of BP. Being Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life.