Bringing Wisdom to Life
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It is now over 2,600 years since one of the greatest historical figures the world has known passed away. Although he lived in ancient times, what the Buddha found out and taught to others is a significant influence in our world today. Modern emanations of the Buddha’s Teachings have found their way into psychology, business, the arts, medicine, education, sport and many other fields, changing the way many live their lives – undoubtedly for the better. <br />If it hadn’t actually happened, it hardly seems possible that the teachings of a single person, born in Northern India in antiquity, could have transformed the lives of millions and millions of people for over two and a half millennia. Yet the Buddha changed the culture and traditions of over a dozen countries, engendered the support and patronage of kings and rulers, the rich and poor, young and old alike, without the use of any force or persecution. It is an incredible legacy. <br />Through all these years since the Buddha’s time, how many thousands of battles, invasions and conflicts have there been to conquer and rule, only for all of these many empires of the long past to die out. Yet the Buddha’s message carries on with strength and clarity and testifies that love, truth and peace have their own power and endurance as they resonate deeply with every individual’s fundamental need for happiness and wellbeing. <br />Bringing Wisdom to Life is written from the perspective of practicing Buddhists who have studied and learnt from many of the Buddhist Traditions found in our world today. This book offers a rich diversity of wisdom and compassion teachings for use as a practical handbook for everyday living and is a remarkable guide for inner development and peace.
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Anita Carter. Bringing Wisdom to Life
Foreword
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Happiness You Are Looking For
Approaching the Buddha Dhamma
Law of Kamma
Chapter 2 – Happiness Map
Happiness Map
Virtue Platform
Chapter 3 – Generosity
Chapter 4 – Morality
To refrain from Killing Living Beings
To Refrain From Lying
To refrain from taking intoxicants that cloud the mind
To refrain from Sexual Misconduct
To Refrain from Stealing
Chapter 5 – Mindfulness
Chapter 6 – Letting Go
How to start your Buddhist practice?
My Daily Dhamma Plan
My Weekly Dhamma Plan
Chapter 7 – Right Effort
Chapter 8 – Overcoming our Self Grasping Nature
A. Generosity and kindness
B. Expressing The Five Precepts in the positive form
C. Using and cultivating wholesome minds and not using unwholesome minds
Chapter 9 – Merit for The Path
Ten Ways of Making Merit
Chapter 10 – Refuge
Offerings on a Buddhist Altar
Chapter 11 – Truthfulness
Globalizing
Awfulizing
Generalizing
Slandering and “Playing Blemish”
Hype
Fantasizing
Flattery
Chapter 12 - Patience Chapter
Chapter 13 – Determination
Chapter 14 – Meditation with Virtue and Concentration
Benefits of listening to the Dhamma
Chapter 15 – The Perfection of Wisdom
Appendix
Unwholesome Mental Components
Wholesome Mental Components
Bibliography
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We deeply acknowledge the Buddha Sakyamuni, our Founder, and the many Buddhist Teachers who we have had the opportunity and privilege to have met and received Teachings from.
The Teachings in this book are a culmination of Teachings given at the Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia by the Founder Mr John D. Hughes and various Buddhist Teachers who have taught at the centre over the past forty years.
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Siddhartha, however, could not be unconcerned. He wanted to find out why the world was like that. He wanted to know what was the truth about life? What was really going on? What caused these different sufferings to happen in unequal measures to everybody? Was there any way that could be found which would stop suffering?
This is where we get back to the difference between conventional and ultimate reality. Siddhartha was asking questions which could not be answered by understanding conventional truth. He had reached the ceiling, the limit of what conventional truth could say about the world.
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