Friends:
The Golden Buddhist Life Standards are the Primary Laws!
The golden Buddhist's life standards make
harmony for oneself and others. This layman's code of discipline =
(gihi-vinaya) organize social relationships so that they produce a
society of happy being and beings: Law 4 is:
Law 4: Helping all beings achieve their advantageous goals!
One should help oneself, one
should help others and one should help both oneself and others...
Helping oneself will develop one's life towards progress, prosperity, and
happiness.
Helping others by inducing and encouraging them to develop their lives, gives
same benefits.
Helping oneself and others creates a mutual goal and advantage for both
parties. This collective benefit,
leads to happiness and virtue of the community & society. An example is
environmental conditions, which we
all should help create and conserve in order to help both ourselves and others
to a happy & better future.
Helping all people is joining in constructively creating a social harmony and
unity...
Helping all beings is expanding this gentle and subtle harmony universally!
The Four
Principles for Help:
1. Dāna: Giving and sharing
(helping through money and material goods).
2. Piyavāca: Kind, friendly & polite speech (helping through words &
explanation).
3. Atthacariyā: Helpful bodily action (helping attaining goals through
physical effort).
4. Samānattatā: Participation & assistance (helping with collective
construction & problem solving).
The Three
Levels of Goals:
1. First level: Present
benefits to be seen & utilized here and now (ditthadhammikattha):
a) Having good health, a strong body, freedom from disease, pleasant
appearance, and long life.
b) Having work and income, honest livelihood, and economic self-reliance.
c) Having good status, being of good standing in the community.
d) Having a happy family worthy of admiration & respect.
2. Second level: Religious goals for further advantages (samparāyikattha):
a) Warmth, deep appreciation and happiness through faith of having a true
ideal.
b) Pride in having a clean life, in having done only morally irreproachable
deeds.
c) Gratification in a worthwhile life, in having made sacrifices and done much
good.
d) Courage & confidence by having understanding to deal with problems & guide
own & other's life.
e) Security and freedom from worry in having done good as an investment for the
future life.
3. Third level: The absolute and ultimate Goal (paramattha):
a) Not wavering in face of common vicissitudes and inevitable changes.
b) Not being depressed, despaired, or distressed because of clinging to
attachments.
c) Being assured, secure, calm, clear, cheerful, and mentally buoyant at all
times.
d) Living and acting with wisdom, which looks rationally at all causes and
conditions.
e) Approaching Nibbāna - the deathless element - the highest bliss - the
final peace - the highest goal -
One who is able to attain the second level of goals & upwards is known as a
wise man (pandita).
Source:
A constitution for Living.
Buddhist Principles for a Fruitful and Harmonious Life.
Ven. P.A. Payutto. Thailand. Buddhist
Publication Society 2007: BP 620S
http://www.bps.lk
The Golden
Buddhist Life Standards are the Primary Laws!