The benefits from studying on True Friend characteristics
“…the wise man [pandita] knows four kinds of True Friends well. They are: The Helpful Friend [upakaraka], the Constant Friend [samanasukhadukkha]
The Blessings: The cause of progress and prosperity
The progress in this life. For example, when we are children, we can be successful in our education
The Good Friend must be Scrupulous
The most time-consuming activity in a person’s life is to earn a living. How should a true friend earn a living, one may ask?
Thoroughly Attaining Nirvana.
Is there any place in the world that is without suffering? No. How come Prince Siddhartha became ordained?
A Mind Free Of Worldly Vicissitudes.
The mind is the nature of thought inside our body and can collect and assimilate all kinds of sense-objects
Filtering Out False Friends
The majority of people around the world from the Lord Buddha’s time until now have been under the misconception that success and failure in life depend mainly on the environment around them.
Core Value # 9 : Spontaneously arising beings exist
This ninth form of core value is acceptance of the existence of spontaneously arising beings-beings which arise not because of their parents but as the result of karmic action they have committed themselves in the past.
Learning To Be Learned
Our life is surrounded by misery and decay appearing together since our birth, that we are distasteful towards. The things we prefer are happiness and the ability to progress in life.
Mechanism # 4 : Practising our Dutise in the Six Directions & Conserving the Environment
When talking of our environment, the Lord Buddha meant both the people that surround us and the natural environment that surrounds us:
Core Value # 5 : The real existence of the ‘world’
The term ‘world’ in Buddhist terminology means more than just our planet. It means:
