The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Blameless Work (4)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Fifth Group of Blessings. Blessing Eighteen :- Blameless Work.
Social Disaster : 5. The Boss-Employee Relationship
If an employer and an employee are undisciplined and do not cherish harmony in the workplace according to the teachings of the Six Directions
Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta: The Sermon : 2. Self-Mortification [attakilamathanuyoga]
This is the practice of self-denial or self-mortification which is a non-Buddhist practice. It is one of many practices favoured by non-Buddhist ascetics such as Niganthas
The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Blameless Work (1)
5. The Boss-Employee Relationship
The fifth important factor influencing social development is the quality of human relationships in the workplace-some thing we measure in terms of the fulfillment of reciprocal responsibilities between employer and employee-duties collectively referred to as the ‘nadir’ [hetthimadisa]
Social Disaster : 6. The Boss-Employee Relationship
Commentorial Metaphors: Indulgence in sensual pleasures:
A pig content to wallow in dung: Indulging in sensual pleasures is rather like a pig, which spends all its life wallowing in the warm mud and dung of its pigsty because it thinks that this is the ultimate happiness.
Author’s Preface
Buddhism is unique in teaching a way to overcome suffering, with its aim definitively to liberate oneself from the Cycle of Existence [vadda-samsara] thereby attaining the highest eternal happiness
The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Looking After One's Extended Family (2)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Fifth Group of Blessings. Blessing Seventeen :- Looking After One's Extended Family.
1.The Parent-Child Relationship # 2
The said proper upbringing can be measured in terms of the fulfillment of five parental responsibilities to a child