The Benefits of Staying in an Appropriate Environment:
1. Receive happiness and joy 2. Make both worldly and spiritual progress
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 Benefits of Mixing with The Wise:
A person who keeps the company of wise ones has:1. A clear, bright mind and is able to perform good deeds
A Mind Free of Sorrow.
It’s unavoidable for every one to face the eight worldly conditions except for the enlightened one or the noble one whose mind is kept calm and collected no matter what pleasant or unpleasant objects come to him/her
The Consequences of Mixing with a Fool:
Viewed by the company you keep, as being untrustworthy, unreliable and like the company you mix with
The Enemy in Friend’s Clothes
Our society today is a real melting point of different sorts of people, good and bad. There are a noticeable number of bad people in the world as we hear on the news
Why we have to study the Blessings?
There is one interesting point of life. Only studying a lot to achieve great intelligence in order to have a good job and to earn a lot o9f money is not enough to be born as a human being
Meeting Monks Often.
Both of them when compared, result in the latter one being a much more exceptional and desirable happiness that nothing could be compared with.
A Mind Free Of Particles Of Defilements.
A particle means fine dust, which is so small that eyes could hardly see it. It could only be seen when sticking to something clean like a looking glass. In small quantities of particles, we still could not see them
Carefulness In All Dhamma.
The nature of a mind is always thinking and wandering. Normally one’s mind is often unconscious and indulges in the five sensual pleasures namely: forms, odors, sounds and tangible objects that usually tempt one to do bad deeds with his/her body, speech and mind.
