Virtual Dhamma-Vinaya Vihara
Vihara => Open Vihara - [Offenes Vihara] => Topic started by: Dhammañāṇa on November 16, 2019, 08:42:28 PM
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Nyom Villa shortly asked if practice and work can be combined and such question often arise as well if touches also "civil" learning and is actually a matter of right livelihood.
So generally yes: life and lifelihood are the path.
Especially in modern customs people are somehow forced to divide their lifes in even multiple "personality splitting" ways: own, as parents, customer, boss, servant, citizen... hobby, free time. Each with other morals and often is one part to compensate another. Thousand different engagement. Lustful eating <=> fitness center, immoral work <=> fun or therapies, no time for relation <=> accumulating for gifts...
So all gets more and more astray actually rather than conncentrated and one-pointed. Some may think that conncentration is another part of the path, but actually, life, livelihood, is the center, top, of the virtue section.
As possible known, the practice needs to be all around, everytime best, if wishing high and soon fruits.
To make one job, life, one is a very supportive intention. And now such is best possible if putting all areas under one intention, resolve, that allows such, incl. own principles, moral, Sila.
The Buddhas recommended set of simple, everywhere useable, set of principles are the five "no go's", precepts or eight, it alread that far, and with them one has already a great stabil framework to render and improve a auspicious live in all regard.
Work, undertakings, hobbies... of which conflict with the precepts are good to try to abound or improve there conditions.
The Sublime Buddha recommended here not only to consider direct own deeds but also the possible side conflicts and mental approving of undertakings around and above ones work. To avoid conflicts and dangers of getting involved, he recommended to principally try to abstain from involvements in trade in areas around five spheres:
* weapons, means to kill
* poision
* trade with meat
* trade with living beings
* means that cause indoxication which leads to lose of moral shame
for faithful virtuous follower.
Within this good chosen areas outside the five, principle joy in ones work for a good, or at least not harmfull can be found and here one can easier concentrate on perfection ones own deeds and signs/speech more focused.
The letting go of not so morality surrounded areas, where normally easier lot of money can be made, is not only placeable under generosity or gift for many, but, if looking more calculating, will show that such allows the letting go of many compensation that are needed to beauty one self and not to become more and more incapable to look into a mirror.
One does no more take part on larger harmful undertakings and doing so, thete is huge release one could not easy gain even if trying not to be direct engaged in misconducts.
So the virtue section has gain of conncentrating ones way of life, better, and better, as it's near purpose. As a side-effect one also changes ones personal direct interaction and association, as people around and involved may be more virtuous as well and eventually become more near to ones other relation families. That will then also reduce the conflict-prevention-efforts one usually invests a lot of time and effort to maintain different "faces" or ways. How bad for ones status in ones work-relations it touching the face of family. This also reduces a big amount of ceating and to keep one different feed-places seperated. Just think on the many avatars around everywhere how busy to maintain different identities to get the most out everywhere.
That's the first part if on path, the objectives for ones resolves toward unity in ways, conncentration. The base is right view, seeing the dangers, causes, and way out and forms the right resolve of metta, not harming, conflicting and withdraw (from astray).
Once this gross resolve and conditions are more and more established, its then easier to focus on details no more that astray and splitted, doing merits, family, business, all under one roof and ending of living as mulity-splitted-personality.
One may now wonder how near or far different societies are in regard of family, friends, work and merits in one house or even scattered all over the world. The same counts for learning: where are parents, teacher, students... are still in one house, even the same?
My person will stop here and possible continue later.
Anumodana
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Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu _/\_ _/\_ _/\_