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Slogan 33. Don't bring things to a painful point—Don't humiliate others. Slogan 34. Don't transfer the ox's load to the cow—Take responsibility for yourself. Slogan 35. Don't try to be the fastest—Don't compete with others. Slogan 36. Don't act with a twist—Do good deeds without scheming about benefiting yourself. Slogan 37.
Early Buddhist texts do not disparage merchants and trade, but instead promote enterprise as long as it is done ethically and leads to the well-being of the community. The gold standard for rulers in Buddhism is the ideal wheel turning king, the Chakravartin. A Chakravartin is said to rule justly, giving to the needy and combating poverty so as ...
Buddhist scriptures explain the five precepts as the minimal standard of Buddhist morality. [15] It is the most important system of morality in Buddhism, together with the monastic rules. [16] Śīla (Sanskrit; Pali: sīla) is used to refer to Buddhist precepts, [17] including the five. [4]
In Buddhism, the Eight Precepts (Sanskrit: aṣṭāṇga-śīla or aṣṭā-sīla, Pali: aṭṭhaṅga-sīla or aṭṭha-sīla) is a list of moral precepts that are observed by Nuns, or Upāsakas and Upasikās (lay Buddhists) on Uposatha (observance days) and special occasions.
In Chinese Buddhism, this is often done in a ceremony at a Buddhist temple and sometimes a retreat lasting multiple days is required for orientation. [ 6 ] The six major lay bodhisattva precepts in this sutra are the five precepts plus an extra precept which focuses on not "speaking of the faults of bhiksus, bhiksunis, upasakas, or upasikas."
The Four Right Exertions (cattārimāni sammappadhānāni) are defined with the following traditional phrase: "There is the case where a monk generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for: "[i] the sake of the non-arising [anuppādāya] of evil, unskillful qualities that have not yet arisen.
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The Buddha of the earliest Buddhists texts describes Dharma (in the sense of "truth") as "beyond reasoning" or "transcending logic", in the sense that reasoning is a subjectively introduced aspect of the way unenlightened humans perceive things, and the conceptual framework which underpins their cognitive process, rather than a feature of ...