To have sense of trust and everlasting relation.
Nobody is stupid, Nobody is wise.
But craving drives us crazy.
Sympathy must be developed;
Selfishness should be abandoned.
To happily and harmoniously live with everyone in the same planet.
Actually, many people know that Buddhism teaches meditation and teaches Dhamma for spiritual life but a few people know that of social guides and philosophy for worldly life instructed by the Buddha. Of course, we have to learn a lot and as much as we can if we want to be skillful in the particular subject and obtain sufficient knowledge from it. We will need much more attention and awareness to learn Buddhism because it is spiritual subject, practical and deep enough in its meaning. Without practice as we were instructed in the theoretical knowledge, hardly will we understand the essence of Buddhism.
When I was guiding the two tutors from Mandalay University for their master research, I wanted to write on social guides of Buddhism for worldly life because the Buddha gave a lot of advices to social affairs of ordinary people as social guides. I feel many Buddhist people are missing such advices in their Buddhist background. They pay much attention to ritual Buddhist life and practice devotional prayer in their life. I feel so sad to see such people and the way they practice in Buddhism. This is the first reason why I want to write social guides of Buddhism for worldly life. I hope you will get benefit from what I have written.
Actually, I write this article with very deep wishes to all the Buddhist people around the world to learn good understanding of Buddhism. My interest in Buddhism is Vipassana meditation and to practice it when I became a monk because it helped me a lot. And I have met many westerners who are interested in Vipassana meditation like me. And I guide them how they should practice Vipassana meditation as I do. I love those who are interested in Vipassana meditation because it brings harmony to everyone among different people. Talking makes you bored and no satisfactory in end but practice makes perfect. In my meditation forest, there is a motto, “Speak need, eat need, sleep need and practice as much as possible” because I believe practice makes perfect. I hope you will get some knowledge on Buddhism by reading social guides and I wish you would be happy, healthy and peaceful forever in your life.