Buddhist economic philosophy

Buddhist economic philosophy
The Dhamma-Katta view is that there are four reasons for the current benefits in the world:
1- Working hard, not always being lazy, called udhana-sakshi. For the ancients told us, “Don’t wait for tomorrow, do what you have to do.” The Buddha taught us: Don’t rely on six reasons:
1. It’s too early
2. It’s too late
3. It’s too thirsty
4. It’s too hungry
5. It’s too hot
6. It’s too cold
The Buddha further reminded us that
“Viryana dukkha matchiti” “If you want to be free from suffering, you must strive” for every task.
The proverb of the scientific era says, “Strive against nature, .. heat, cold, pain” and don’t be discouraged.
2- Preserving the wealth you have earned, being thrifty, knowing how to preserve, caring for, and protecting the wealth you have earned and not losing it for any reason is called araksha-sakshi.
You must know how to divide your wealth into four types
1. Pay off old debts, that we should know for sure that the fact that we are all alive today and have grown up to this point has come from the birth of our parents and their nurturing and care since childhood. It is not easy that they have raised us to this point, they have spent a lot of money, physical and mental energy, they are very tired. Therefore, we as children must pay attention to raising them in the same way, this is called paying off old debts.
2. Pay off new debts, that the fact that we have given birth to children must be responsible
As parents, we must be careful to raise our children well and prepare the future for our children well, that is, we must fulfill ourselves properly according to the five roles stipulated in Buddhism. If we do good to our children like this, when our children are rich, we must repay them.
3. Throw into the deep abyss. The deepest abyss that can never be filled is the stomach. Our body is like a abyss. Our mouth is like a abyss. This is what he wants us to keep a part of our wealth for livelihood. This livelihood must be lived in a righteous way, avoiding wrong livelihoods by stealing, robbing, robbing others, etc. When they grow up, they will act in the same way as us. This is called the new debt.
4. Bury in the ground. The idea is that we have wealth and we should take it and store it well, avoiding thieves. There are two types of thieves: external thieves and internal thieves. External thieves refer to thieves who are not ourselves and who have the desire to take other people's property. Or internal thieves refer to the defilements of our own desires. Most people are in debt and have too much wealth, which has caused them to become stingy, not giving in charity, not sharing with society.
Therefore, we must know that the thief within ourselves poses a great risk to ourselves. It can make us become a bad person because of wealth. Therefore, we must bury some of our wealth in the earth, which means to make merit for ourselves and the next generation. Each of our lives is very valuable in the family circle. Husbands and wives always need loyalty between each other, sons and daughters always need the warmth of their parents, while parents also need humility and obedience from their children. Wealth that has been earned does not mean that it should not be spent, but it should be spent on the right cause. According to the Buddha's advice that teaches people to divide their wealth into four types in the use of spending with the right reason, the Venerable has said:
"Four types of wealth are for use with the right reason:
First, for supporting oneself, parents, children, wife, or slaves who live with one.
Second, spending wealth to protect wealth is spending wisely to free oneself from various dangers such as dangers due to fire, water, or theft, etc."
“The third is to spend one’s wealth to save one’s relatives and to entertain guests who come from afar, which refers to the five types of sacrifices, such as sacrifices to relatives, etc., and the fourth is to make alms to the Brahmin monks and the virtuous ones who are beloved.” Living a balanced life means knowing how to spend one’s wealth, not being wasteful or not being too extravagant, or looking to the future, because everyone is born as a full-fledged human being. If one does not die young, one will definitely become the head of one’s family. Being able to manage one’s family well is a person who is not wasteful, while being able to spend one’s wealth in a moral way is a great blessing for everyone. “The loss of wealth in the way described is called the loss of virtue, and one should not be sad. But if it is all gone and even more disturbing, it refers to spending money on various forms of entertainment such as spending on women, drinking alcohol and taking drugs, enjoying oneself as a gambler, playing gambling, walking around the streets often at night, watching theaters or singing and dancing games often, or often engaging in idleness and associating with bad friends, etc.
3- Know how to treat friends The Buddha said that associating with scholars is always successful and is a great fortune. Do not associate with evil people because evil never brings prosperity, which is called Kalyanamitta.
Parabhava Sutta
In the Preah Pitaka Sutta Pitaka, Khottaka Nikaya, Sutta Nivata, Third Chapter (Book Volume 54, Page 36) (Parabhava Sutta), there is a story about the Buddha's teaching to people to know the 12 causes that lead to destruction. Along with the Parabhava Sutta, in the Tripitaka, Sutta Pitaka, Khodaka Nikaya, in the Khodaka Bhatta (Volume 52, pages 1 to 20), there is a description of 38 actions that bring about prosperity or the Mungkal Sutta (pages 4 to 6). If people follow the 38 principles in the Mungkal Sutta and abstain from unwholesome actions, In the Parabhava Sutta, all people will be peaceful and prosperous.
Parabhava Sutta, taken from the Tripitaka
[10] Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling in the Jetavana monastery of Anathapindika Sethi near Savatthi. At that time, when the first watch of the night had passed, a deva, with a glorious radiance that illuminated the Jetavana monastery all around, approached the Blessed One. Having arrived, he bowed down to the Blessed One and sat down. When that deva was seated, he bowed down to the Blessed One, saying thus:
[11] We have come to ask the venerable Gotama (thinking) We have come to ask about a man who is perishing, what is the cause of perishing?
(The Blessed One spoke) 1. The man who is prosperous, the wise, easily knows; the man who is perishing, the wise, easily knows. The man who desires the Dhamma prospers; the man who hates the Dhamma perishes.
We all know this clearly, that this is the first destruction. Venerable sir, please explain the second cause, what is the cause of destruction.
2. The man who loves the unkind, does not love the kind, and is pleased with the dharmas of the unkind, that is the cause of destruction.
We all know this clearly, that this is the second destruction. Venerable sir, please explain the third cause, what is the cause of destruction.
3. The man who sleeps a lot, talks a lot, is not shy, is not shy, is not angry, that is the cause of destruction.
We know that this is the third destruction. Venerable Sir, please explain the fourth cause, what is the cause of destruction.
4. A person who is wealthy but does not support his mother or father, who is old and advanced in years, that is the cause of destruction.
We know that this is the fourth cause, Venerable Sir, please explain the fifth cause, what is the cause of destruction.
5. A person who deceives a brahmin, a recluse, or a beggar with false words, that is the cause of destruction.
We know that this is the fifth cause, Venerable Sir, please explain the sixth cause, what is the cause of destruction.
6. A man who has much wealth, money, and pleasures, who eats only delicious food, is the cause of destruction.
We know this well, that this is the sixth cause. Venerable Sir, please explain the seventh cause, what is the cause of destruction.
7. A man who is proud of his birth, proud of his wealth, proud of his family, and despises his relatives, is the cause of destruction.
We know this well, that this is the seventh cause, Venerable Sir, please explain the eighth cause, what is the cause of destruction.
8. A man who gambles, who drinks, who gambles, who wastes the wealth he has acquired, is the cause of destruction.
We know well that this is the eighth destruction. Venerable Sir, please explain the ninth cause, what is the cause of destruction.
9. A man who is not happy with his wife and goes astray to prostitutes or to the wives of others, that is the cause of destruction.
We know well that this is the ninth cause, Venerable Sir, please explain the tenth cause, what is the cause of destruction.
10. A man who is past his prime takes a woman with breasts like a pomegranate, and sleeps restlessly because of jealousy for her, that is the cause of destruction.
We know well that this is the tenth cause, Venerable Sir, please explain the eleventh cause, what is the cause of destruction.
11. A man who is a spendthrift or a man of that kind, in a great position, is the chief cause of destruction.
We all know this well, that this is the eleventh cause of destruction. Please, venerable sir, explain the twelfth cause, which is the chief cause of destruction.
12. A man born in a low family, having little food but great desire for wealth, that is the chief cause of destruction.
A wise man, endowed with excellent insight, clearly considering all these destructions in the world, that wise man seeks the world of perfect happiness [Palitha Siva elsewhere attains Nibbana, but here the Atthakatha says that he attained peace among men and gods.].
End of the 6th Parabhava Sutta.
(Preah Traipitaka, Vol. 54, Page 36, Sutta Pitaka, Khotta Nikaya, Sutta Nivat)

The 12 Heads of Destruction
1 - A True Dharma Person Hates Dharma
The word "Dharma" has many meanings, but here in the broad sense, dharma means teaching or true nature. In the narrow sense, dharma is the teaching of the Buddha. Do not confuse the teachings of the Buddha and the Dhamma for chanting during alms ceremonies. Since dharma here focuses specifically on truth, natural law, or science, people who love truth and follow scientific law will be able to find accurate, sufficient, and up-to-date data or information to make wise or intelligent decisions. They live free from false teachings that are traps, nets, or barriers that surround them and hide them from the truth. People who believe in scientific truth will live in peace and happiness, free from worries, sorrows, or fears caused by fear or the pull to believe in irrational or supernatural beliefs, such as the belief that there are people, animals, or miraculous events, hell, heaven, ghosts, past lives, future lives, angels, and gods.Gods or gods, etc. In general, people who believe in the truth do not easily decide to believe in any explanation or teaching that has not been thoroughly studied and tested by scientists.
As for people who do not understand the truth, they will fall into false teachings, which can lead to a loss of time, property and even life. People in this group will be easily deceived, intimidated or dragged into various unethical actions such as being deceived into believing in body tattoos, buying amulets, buying traditional medicines made from tree roots or dead animals, watering the zodiac, predicting the future, fortune-telling, flying in the air, or investing in fraudulent pyramid schemes. This group of people will easily be deceived into spending time, property or life on a doctrine. They will become robots who fall under the orders of the deceiver who is waiting for an opportunity to exploit them to serve his own person or party. People who do not love the truth or scientific teachings will easily make decisions without considering them scientifically.
2 - Do not associate with evil people (do not associate with evil people or evil people)
To understand the meaning of this principle, we must first study the words good and bad. The word good is a person (whether male or female) who is peaceful and does not do evil with body, speech or mind. Good people are people who act well, according to the laws of the state and religious laws. Good people are people who live in harmony with other people in the community or society as a whole. Good people firmly respect human rights and are kind to animals and plants on earth. Good people do not think only about their own interests or the interests of their own party. They know how to help other people who are ignorant to become wise, help the suffering to be free, help the hungry to get food to eat, help the homeless to have a proper home, teach the poor to know how to do a proper job to help themselves and their families. In addition, good people teach their children to respect others without discrimination of caste or religion. They respect other people's decisions, listen to other people's good advice to improve themselves. The decisions of the benefactors are made after they have studied, researched, and consulted with experienced people or scholars. Living a life according to the path of the benefactors will make people live in peace, prosperity, and peace in society. That is why the ancients taught future generations to associate with benefactors.
In contrast to benefactors, the unbenefactors lack the qualities that the benefactors have as mentioned above. Looking at the wealth aspect, even though the unbenefactors have a lot of wealth, the people in this group do not care about sharing their wealth for the benefit of others, such as directly giving to the poor or creating a fund to help poor students, building schools, hospitals, or roads, which are beneficial to the entire community. Not to mention sharing their wealth with others, the unbenefactors do not bother to spend their time volunteering to help social causes, such as helping to educate the ignorant, helping with the work of temples, monasteries, schools, or hospitals, etc. The unkind person decides to do something based on the benefit to himself or his party first. The unkind person uses every reason to continue to discriminate against the caste, religion, and skin color of people who are not in their own caste.
As evidence to prove the above two points, let us examine the human society in India during the time of the Buddha, what kind people and unkind people thought and did for themselves and their parties. In India, people are divided into 4 major castes, namely the Brahmin caste, the king caste, the Vaishya caste, and the Sudras caste. Generally, the Brahmin caste uses the reason that they are born from the mouth of the divine person named "Manu" or born from the mouth of God Brahma, which makes them superior to people from other castes. The Brahmin caste created the Manu Sastra to deceive, exploit, and oppress people in the lower castes, especially the Chandala (outside caste) without any common sense. Even though the Indian government has a constitution that protects the rights of all castes, the Brahmin and the Kshatriya castes continue to oppress, exploit, and discriminate against the Vaishyas, Sudras, and the outcasts (Jandalas). The stories of the Buddha's life reflect the strong caste discrimination in ancient Indian society. The Buddha's parents were Kshatriyas (landowners) who collected agricultural produce from the Sudras and outcasts. The oppression, exploitation, and discrimination continued from generation to generation without change because the upper castes (Brahmins and Kshatriyas) conspired to create countless religious scriptures to cover up their evil thoughts and to break the minds of others to accept them as the will of God. Those religious scriptures and rituals have become tools for suppressing the mindset of the lower castes to continue to accept their living conditions without questioning or rising up against injustice. The evildoers of the upper castes continue to explain The lower castes believed that the reason they were wealthy, comfortable, and had many servants in this country was because they had done a lot of merit in their previous lives, and the reason the lower castes were poor was because they had done bad deeds or had not done a lot of merit in their previous lives. So they had to endure the poverty in this country and try to do a lot of merit so that they could be reborn in the next life as wealthy people with many servants, like the Brahmins and the kings. This interpretation worked for hundreds of generations, and the lower castes did not dare to rise up against the upper castes to demand their freedom. By the time of the Buddha, many people had come together to exchange goods, as well as new ideas and modern technology, which made many people question the validity of the theories set forth in the Brahmin Vedas. The Buddha was also one of the philosophers who saw the injustices in Indian society at that time. He challenged and refuted the theories set forth in the Vedas that he had learned from his teachers since childhood. He fought hard against caste discrimination and discrimination. His father was also a member of the caste discrimination group. The Buddha’s teachings pleased and were followed by the lower castes, but they angered the upper castes. The Buddha’s intellectual revolution had a great impact, with many people turning to his teachings, which made society more just and free. People began to understand the value of compassion for one another. People began to abandon the religious rituals that the Brahmins had forced on them thousands of years ago. This is an example of the benefits of associating with benevolent friends and the harms of associating with unbenevolent friends.
3rd - Sleeping, talking, being lazy, being angry a lot
In this principle, there are four important physical behaviors that we should consider and use evidence to clearly defend each idea. All humans and animals have and use these four habits every day to keep their bodies balanced and healthy. We will focus on humans only and will not discuss animal life here.
The first habit is sleep. Generally, humans need 8 hours of sleep to cool down their brains and allow the body to release toxic chemicals that are left in the body and brain. In addition, during deep sleep, the human brain begins to organize the information received during waking hours (information received through the eyes, ears, tongue, nose, skin, and mind) into the correct order. Any useless information is discarded by the human brain to make room for useful information. Useful information, especially information related to where food is available, safety, and how to protect oneself from danger, is sorted and stored by the brain for future use. After 7 or 8 hours of sleep, each person will wake up with a clear mind, think quickly about problems, and react quickly to an emergency. People who do not get enough sleep are more likely to react slowly, which can be dangerous when driving or operating machinery. Students who do not get enough sleep also have difficulty remembering the lessons they learned yesterday.
Therefore, sleep is very important for everyone, although some people only need 3 to 4 hours to get enough sleep. The teaching in this third principle is not to spend more time sleeping than the body needs. Spending 9 or 10 hours sleeping is really wasting more than 1/3 of the important time a day to work for the benefit of oneself, family, and society. If we consider the health aspect, too much sleep will also cause muscles to weaken, bones to become brittle, and kidneys and lungs to work harder. Too much sleep will also cause the skin on the back to become irritated, and the stomach has difficulty digesting food, which can cause constipation. Many diseases are caused by sleeping too much for the body's needs. Therefore, we should not be stubborn and not get out of bed or bed when it is time to wake up, except in cases of illness. Drug abuse will also cause each person to spend more time sleeping than the body needs. Therefore, we must also avoid drugs or alcohol that cause problems with the health of the brain, lungs, liver and kidneys.
The second behavior is excessive talking, which everyone should reduce. In general, people talk to each other constantly to share information, knowledge, how to work and trade. Speaking is an act in which the human body uses air pressure from the lungs to control the voice box to make a sound like shouting, whispering or speaking. We see that each person needs to use a lot of energy to communicate. If a person talks less, he will spend less energy, if he talks more, he will spend more energy. When we know this truth, we must reduce talking as little as possible to save energy for other actions. A person who has a certain profession that requires a lot of talking, such as a teacher, a monk, a lawyer or a member of parliament. Most of their talking is beneficial to many people. But they also waste energy  It is very good when talking every time. But some people want to express useless words in the temple or the temple without any real purpose because they are very proud and want others to admire them as knowledgeable. Such talk is a waste of their energy. If they go to the extent of gossiping or defaming others, those useless talkers will definitely be cursed or attacked to the point of pain. If in a discussion, people who talk a lot do not give their partners a chance to express their thoughts. This is really a big loss because each person always has their own good thoughts, they just do not want to express them to the discussion group because they do not have the opportunity. Therefore, people who talk a lot should let others listen to their opinions, do not think that only they have good ideas or are the most knowledgeable. On the other hand, talking a lot will lead to the disclosure of secrets that will lead to spies stealing information and using it to do evil to themselves or their country.
The third behavior is laziness, which each person must avoid. No one can boast that they are not lazy. Everyone has this laziness from birth. We strive to create ways of working and create various technological devices to get a job done in less time in order to save time for leisure, that is, laziness. Some people hire or use other people to do their work instead of them. Groups of people in power use people under their command to do thousands of types of work instead of them. Landowners use hired laborers to do hard agricultural work and pay little or no wages. That is human laziness. Scientists have also sought to find ways to work or create tools to do more work with the least time and energy. For example, early generations used animals to help them farm because they were too lazy to use their own strength, and later people created machines instead of animals because they helped them achieve their goals faster. We bring up the first type of laziness to show that laziness is not all bad. We call this type of laziness "taking time to find other good ideas to do a job faster and better." This kind of laziness is more beneficial than working in the same way, according to old rules, according to habits, which takes a lot of time or effort and produces little result.
The laziness that we should avoid is the laziness that a person does not follow the recommended good work methods and does not bother to think of new ways to work to achieve a project. Example 1: A farmer has to plow a hectare of rice field in 10 days. If he only has one ox or buffalo and one plow, he usually has to get up early to plow the rice field for a long time each day. But he is too lazy to get up early and wait for the sun to rise or wait until noon to go out to the rice field. He will not be able to achieve his goal. Option 2: He can hire other people to help him with the work, then he can still achieve his goal. But he is too lazy to spend money or does not have the money to spend, then his project will not be able to achieve the goal set. Example 2: A student has to write a 200-page thesis to defend his idea for graduation. He had to complete the project in 12 months, including project planning, data collection, data analysis, and thesis writing. The student was lazy about doing these tasks and waited until the end of the semester to start working on them. Time marches on and waits for lazy students. At the end of the year, he had neither a project nor data to write, nor any documents to prove that he had done these tasks. Example 3: A monk had to memorize all 110 books of the Tripitaka and other Buddhist and other religious scriptures so that he could use them to defend his ideas when defending his ideas (sanghayana) with other monks on the day of his college graduation exam. The monk read only the Tripitaka in Khmer and was lazy about reading other books. The day of the exam arrived, and the debate reached a very deep and difficult level. The rival monk questioned the lazy monk harshly and humiliated the lazy monk, who was angry and went to study to learn more so that he could fight later. Example 4: A man wanted to become very wealthy, but he was too lazy to do business or work for another company. He thought that if he went to the casino, he would win a lot of money in a short time. Otherwise, he could buy a lottery ticket that would give him millions of dollars. The man continued to go to the casino to gamble non-stop. Some days he won, some days he lost. In total, he lost tens of thousands of dollars in gambling and had to mortgage his house to get more money to gamble. He also spent a lot of money to buy lottery tickets. In the end, he lost his house, lost his job, and owed a lot of money to others. This is the result of laziness, which everyone should avoid.
The fourth characteristic is anger, which people should minimize. Everyone feels angry, whether it is a common person or a highly educated person who has become an arahant, but the level of anger varies according to the level of knowledge and understanding or compassion. Anger is a burning emotion that boils up in a person's head when a situation does not go as expected or when someone causes trouble or does not do what the first person wants. People who are compassionate and understand the situation and suffering of others also Quickly relieve anger and do not vent your anger on the other person. A person who is not calm and does not understand the other person's situation will continue to keep anger burning in his head and then vent that anger on the other person and people around him such as children, spouses, or subordinates. Even his valuable and beloved things, a person who cannot control his anger will break them. No one wants to live near a person who cannot control his anger because that person's anger will inevitably spread to him. Anger that is not properly controlled is a moral hazard.
The above explanation shows that sleeping a lot, talking a lot, laziness, and uncontrolled anger are the causes of the third death. Therefore, everyone should avoid or reduce the expression of these emotions to the minimum possible in order to live happily and harmoniously with other people in the family and community. There are many effective ways that everyone should learn and practice to help themselves avoid sleeping a lot, talking a lot, laziness, and uncontrolled anger.
4 - Not feeding parents (parents)
According to the laws of nature, some animal parents give birth to children to continue the lineage and continue to find food to feed the children until they grow up and can find food on their own. Some animal parents even teach their children to find food and help protect them from other animals that can catch them as food. When the children grow up, they continue their lives on their own and play the role of parents to continue the lineage of that species. Scientists have not yet found any animal that returns to bring food to help its parents, except for humans. Humans are also an animal, but humans are animals with a special language for communicating with each other, for teaching or transferring knowledge and technology to another generation. People use language to explain to each other how to help share food, help with work, and protect each other as much as they can. People living in tribes, communities, or countries have created customs for people in that tribe, community, or country. People have created laws to govern the tribe or state and religious laws so that people can live in harmony and help each other so that the human race can live happily. Research has shown that most religious laws teach children to accept the responsibility of supporting their parents willingly and willingly. For example, in the Tripitaka of Theravada Buddhism, it is taught that children have five duties towards their parents: 1- to help raise them, 2- to help with work, 3- to help protect and preserve the family line, 4- to conduct themselves properly as a recipient and administrator of their inheritance, and 5- to make offerings to them when they pass away. However, some people do not follow these religious laws, that is, they do not care to support their parents even if they have the means and ability.
We have observed that religious laws have no way of forcing children to follow these laws, except in two ways: first, by encouraging them that it is a task that God or angels have assigned to them to keep them safe, and second, by intimidating them to accept and comply. We should not blame children for not supporting their parents properly without studying their ability to fulfill these tasks. If the children are unable to do these things, who will help them? We need to look beyond the responsibility of the children and ask what role the community as a whole can play in helping the elderly in the village and to what extent? To what extent can monks and nuns lead the people as Buddhist monks and nuns to join together to help the elderly? To what extent can the country as a whole enact laws to protect the elderly, including respect for human rights and the right to receive proper support from the government in terms of food, shelter, health care and welfare? If the community, the temple and the government work together to help the elderly, then the burden of raising parents will not be too heavy for the children to bear.
5 - Lies and deception
In this principle, we must divide it into two distinct parts so that we can explain and find evidence and arguments to defend each point fully and easily. The first part is the word lie or lie. What benefits or disadvantages does lying provide to the person who speaks and the person who hears it? In general, no one can claim to have never told a lie in their life. Sometimes, lying can be beneficial to the speaker and no one will be held accountable if it is used to protect their own safety or the safety of others. For example, a stranger comes to stay at a monastery with the intention of investigating the situation of the people in the village, such as to know which family has the most wealth or whether there is proper security. If the stranger asks a monk in the monastery these kinds of questions, how should the monk answer? If he answers truthfully, the stranger will use the information in a bad way, such as stealing or robbing the people's property. If he does not answer truthfully, the monk will be guilty of speaking falsely. Therefore, the monk must consider which of the two actions will lead to the lesser of two consequences. If he cannot avoid answering the questions, the monk may choose not to give the truth or may simply say that he does not know. The actions of The monk helps protect the people's property or life, which is better than telling the truth in order to maintain the moral code of "not speaking falsely." However, telling some lies will have negative consequences for himself and others. For example, a monk boasts that he can cure many diseases for the villagers by using only a single root. AIDS is one of the diseases that the monk boasts that he can cure. There is a family with a son who has AIDS, and the medical staff has no way to cure him, except to spend money on pills to suppress the virus from increasing too much, which could kill the young man. The young man's parents do not believe the doctor's advice and take their child to the boastful monk to ask him for help. The truth is that no medicine or herb can kill AIDS. Out of pride, arrogance, and fear of being shamed by the people, if the monk says the truth, "I cannot cure AIDS," rather than telling the truth, the monk lies that he can cure the young man from AIDS. Finally, the parents ran out of money, and the young man died because he did not receive the right medicine to kill the HIV virus. This is when lies cause other people to lose their wealth, get hurt, and die.
The second part is deception. The word deception is a word that the first person says to persuade the second person to do something that will not bring good results to the first person, but the second person benefits. For example, a common man deceived the general public by saying that he was the divine messenger who came to save the world. The man had many followers and powerful people to help him protect him. The deceiver deceived many people into believing and spending a lot of money to buy his crystal resin, saying that the resin would turn into diamonds in the future. In addition, the fraudster had deceived many people into spending money to build a large palace on his temple grounds because when the time came, the fraudster would fly to heaven, and anyone living in the palace on the temple grounds could cling to the fraudster’s feet and fly to heaven with him. Finally, the fraud was exposed to the public, and the fraudster confessed to his fraud. The fraudster deserved to be severely punished according to the law, but because there was a large rope or support, the fraudster was released after making a secret apology. As for the thousands of people who were deceived by the fraudster into spending tens of thousands of dollars, they could only be angry and cursed at the fraudster because they could not do anything and were heartbroken and should not have been so easily deceived. In the end, greed and delusion only brought punishment on themselves. Therefore, all people should be careful not to fall for the temptations of the wicked, whether they are monks or ordinary people.
6 - Hide delicious food and resources
In this principle, there are two parts that we must explain separately. Part 1: Hide delicious food and do not share it with other people. According to the law of nature, most animals only seek food for one day, because they never bother to gather food to store for tomorrow. If they cannot find food tomorrow, they will look for food the next day. Some birds have to fly thousands of kilometers to find food, spending many days flying to reach their destination. Some animals also live a life of fasting without eating for many months, for example, frogs in the dry season or polar bears in the North Pole. But there are also some animals that know how to dig and hide food for later, for example, some types of crows dig and hide food in many places so that other crows will not find it, and there are also some crows who secretly observe the digging and hiding of food to steal it and eat it. Some monkeys also have a way to hide food so that other monkeys will not find it. Humans are also animals that need food to survive like other animals, so humans also have the trick of digging and hiding food to eat later. This trick has been in the human brain since the first human species who walked in search of food with great difficulty. Even in modern times when it is easy to find food, some people still continue to collect food for themselves or their families. For example, some people go to monasteries to collect food to bring home without worrying about leaving some food for other people. If we have food to eat today and we share it with other people to eat like us, they are happy with us. The next day when they have delicious food, they remember our good deeds, and then they will also share delicious food with us.
Part 2 The word "resource" has a broad meaning that can include food, money, knowledge, and technology. Here, we will take the meaning of "resource" which only means assets such as money or gold. If a person hides food and does not share it with others, that person also has a way of hiding his wealth and does not share it with others. Money or gold is much easier to hide than food. Nowadays, many wealthy people deposit their assets in banks, which are safer than keeping them at home. When a neighbor or friend comes to ask for a loan or borrow money, the miser says that there is no money left at home to lend. When it comes to money,The old man, the miser, continues to use his last trick to dig up his wealth to be used in the next life. How many dead people have come forward to claim that they have already spent their money? All the wealth that he has saved or hidden will fall into the hands of the living for further use.
7th - Be attached to one's race, clan, wealth, status and do not count one's relatives
Before we can understand the idea behind this principle, we must examine Indian society in the time of the Buddha and today to assess whether people continue to follow their thousands of years of old customs or to what extent they have changed. We have already studied and learned that human society in India is divided into four distinct groups or castes. In addition, there is another special group of people, the Chandyals, who are people outside the four castes above. There are many verses in the Manu scriptures in which people in the Brahmin caste have devised ways to control people in other castes. The Brahmins claim to be special people sent by the gods to study the Vedas and other scriptures for the preparation of sacrifices for the gods. They strictly maintain that no one from any other caste can read or learn the Vedas or Manu scriptures, and no one from any other caste can perform any sacrifice. People in almost all parts of India continue to believe that their caste is superior to that of the lower castes. Discrimination based on caste or good lineage reflects injustices that have penetrated even into remote villages. The lower castes have no property or land to cultivate or the skills to perform any social service other than collecting human or animal corpses to burn or to scoop up dung from the latrines of the upper castes and dump it in a distant place in exchange for a morsel of rice or leftover food. No matter how educated and highly educated the lower castes become, the lower castes continue to discriminate against and marginalize them. For example, Dr. Ambedkar, a person from the Jandal caste, was constantly scorned by students and teachers from the upper caste. At school, he could not sit in the same class with other students, could not drink water himself because an upper caste person had to pour water from a high place for him, because they believed that Jandals could not touch their water. This discrimination continued even at the university where he taught, and at the Indian National Congress, where he was the chairman of the drafting committee of the Constitution. Even when the Indian Constitution was passed by a majority vote, the upper caste people did not immediately accept it and implement it because they did not think it would benefit them. This is evidence of the discrimination that has occurred and is occurring in Indian society. Today, people from the lowest caste are rising up and openly fighting against the unjust rule and discrimination of officials from the Brahmin and the Kshatriya (landowner) castes. Some Chandans have converted from Brahminism to Buddhism because Buddhism does not discriminate based on caste, nationality, clan, or status. Chandans are free to move around and serve in many ministries without fear of discrimination. However, we still observe cases of discrimination, such as cases where upper caste people rape women who are not caste-based, and cases where the government does not allocate funds for the development of areas where many Chandans live.
Although Cambodia does not have a tradition of caste-based discrimination like in India, we observe leaders and businessmen with millions of dollars who discriminate against poor people or low-level employees. We also see cases of brothers and sisters who stop seeing each other because of their different status or wealth. For example, an older brother is a millionaire while his younger brother is a poor moto-dup driver. The older brother does not dare to tell his wife's relatives that his younger brother is a moto-dup driver because he is afraid of being shamed. This is a disgusting act of discrimination that is happening in Cambodia today. We Khmer people must not continue this degrading and discriminatory tradition if we are proud to be Khmer, a country that once had a prosperous and civilized culture.
8th - Playing the Three Games
The term playing the three games includes playing women, drinking alcohol, and playing poker. The term playing women refers to spending time on flirting with prostitutes or prostitutes, which wastes time, money, and emotions. In addition, the person may be infected with social diseases such as syphilis, mumps, or AIDS. If we research the original idea of ​​this principle, we can draw the conclusion that the original idea is to teach men who practice virtuous conduct to avoid all kinds of actions that prevent them from achieving their moral goals. However, men who are household managers can also apply this principle to lead their lives for the benefit of others. As for women who practice virtuous conduct and housewives, they can also use this principle to lead their lives in the same way, just by changing the word playing women to playing men. For women who are housewives, they must be loyal to their husbands and families without allowing their minds and bodies to become sexual tools for other men.
The word gambling is spending time and money on alcohol and all kinds of drugs.
Happy for your wife It is a tradition, but gambling often has many negative consequences, such as damage to existing assets, failure to find new assets, frequent conflicts, wasting assets, failure to take care of the family (may also cause the wife to commit adultery), damage to one's honor and family, endless scandals, gradual decline in health, and exposure to various diseases, especially social diseases and sexually transmitted diseases.
Gambling brings many disadvantages, such as destruction of existing assets, loss of time for not finding new assets, and failure to engage in various activities, having many stories, causing frequent quarrels and violence, speaking without reason, lacking good manners, losing morality, losing dignity (may make one look down on one's children, wife, and family), failure to take care of the family, weakening of intelligence, and gradual decline in health.
All kinds of gambling also cause rapid loss of wealth, such as selling inheritances and other wrongdoings such as bribery, corruption and theft, leading to family discord, damage to reputation, and loss of trust (they look down on their children). Therefore, gambling, drinking and gambling, any game is the head of the eighth disaster.
9th - A man is not happy with his wife
Sex is the duty of humans, animals and plants to reproduce on earth. For humans, sex plays a role beyond reproduction. Animals and plants have their time to have sex to reproduce their offspring. But for humans, beyond the role of reproduction, people have sex for fun or to strengthen the bond between husband and wife to attract parents to participate in raising their children. Naturally, men, like males, want to have sex with many women because of their desire to reproduce and for fun. Living as a couple is a modern thing in most human cultures. In some cultures, men have been choosing multiple wives, for example, in the cultures of Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses. For men living in countries where monogamy is prohibited, although they do not take multiple wives, they may have sex with prostitutes for pleasure. Doing so will cause those men to waste their wealth and time, and may even contract sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, or AIDS. That is why the Buddha advised that a man who is not happy with his wife is the head of the ninth defilement.
10th - An old man takes a young woman as his wife
Old people who decide to choose someone younger than themselves as their lover often experience sorrow. For example, if an old man decides to choose a young woman as his wife, the old man will definitely spend a lot of time pleasing his young wife. In the same context, an old woman who decides to choose a young man as her husband will also experience many sorrows. However, not all such decisions are bad. If the lovers are truly sincere and caring for each other, they will be happy for life. There are many examples to reflect and advise future generations to make the right decision regarding the choice of a partner of different ages. Therefore, there is a saying that an old man or woman who decides to choose a young woman or man as his wife or husband is the head of destruction. 10th.
11th - Choosing a wasteful woman or man as a partner
The decision to choose a person as a friend is an important matter. Moreover, the decision to choose a man or woman as a husband or wife is a very important matter in the life of a householder. If the wrong choice is made, the person will experience both mental and physical suffering. For example, if a person chooses a partner who is ignorant, that person will lose both wealth and honor. Khmer tradition and the traditions of some ethnic groups around the world have allowed parents or elders to decide for young people in choosing a partner. This does not always work out well. Therefore, scholars should avoid making the wrong decision in choosing a man or a woman as a partner. This is the head of the 11th disaster.
12th - Those born into royal families desire to be kings
People born into royal families (or leaders) are greedy, want power and wealth. They have no knowledge, no ability and wealth, but they want to rule the kingdom. History has shown that some of these people have formed political parties and launched revolutionary movements to overthrow the reigning king. When they got power in their hands, they did not consider building the nation, building capacity and educating the people to be happy and prosperous. As a result, the country fell into disaster, wealth was lost, and the people fell into famine, poverty and hunger. Finally, wars of slaughter continued without end.
In response to the parable of the human and the deva, the Buddha revealed that the chief causes of destruction are these 12.
Note
(1) Samnang = creation, the act done or the result of creation.Therefore, the word fortune does not refer only to the merits of the previous life, but also to what has been done in the past, including in the past life and in this life, such as last month, last year, etc. For example, the knowledge that we have studied is also considered a fortune. If a person says that he relies on fortune, it means that he relies on what he does.
The poem is a Pali poem of the Pathavata style
1- Parabhavantam purisammayam pocchaam gotamam…..bhavantam puthumakamkam k parabhavato mukam.
2- Sovijano bhavam hoti sovijano parabhavo…..dhammakamo bhavam hoti dhammatessei parabhavo.
3- Tihetam vijayanema ptomor so parabhavo…..dutiyam bhagava pruhika k parabhavato mukam.
4- The asanas are the ones who 9- The four names of the four are not mentioned, 14- The nature of the world is the highest, 19- The name of the new one is not a bad name...the Blessed One is the one who 24- Apbhoko Mahatano Khattiye Jeayte Kule…..so Cha Rajam Pathyati Tam Parabhavato Mukam.
25- Eteh Parabhave Loke Banditho Samvekhya…..Arya Ksana Samvano Sa Lokam Bhajate Shiva.
Parabhavasuttam Nidhitam
Poem in Khmer
1- We have come to ask.....the cause of the destruction of
the men and women in the world of assembly.....who will perish without merit.
Towards the Blessed One Gotama.....compassionately expressing the gift
of Dhamma life as the chief.....leading beings to destruction.
2- He who advances the Tathagata easily.....he who destroys the Tathagata truly
he desires the good Dhamma in his mind.....and strives to act will advance.
He who hates the Dhamma does not advance.....without advancing, he will advance.
3- We all know for sure.....this destruction is because of that.
This destruction, if it is considered as salvation.....that destruction is the first name.
Venerable Bhagavan.....please explain to me
The second destruction, what is the main thing.....that leads to destruction of beings.
4- He who loves is satisfied with love.....but with unkind people
Does not love at all.....with kind people who become friends.
Love is satisfied with thoughts.....and goes to throw away unkind friends
Being satisfied with a dharma or something.....all these causes lead to destruction.
5- We all know for sure.....this destruction is because of that.
This destruction, if it is considered as salvation.....that destruction is the second name.
Venerable Bhagavan.....please explain to me
The third destruction, what is the main thing.....that leads to destruction of beings.
6- Those who sleep a lot, talk a lot, and those who are careless and do not strive
Those who are lazy, do not have enthusiasm, and are angry and show off.
Those causes are not wholesome..... They lead to loss and loss of benefit
There are few things that are important, but they lead to destruction.
7- We all know for sure..... This destruction is because of that.
If this destruction is considered salvation..... That destruction is the third name.
Venerable Bhagavan..... Please explain to us the fourth destruction, what is the reason..... That leads to destruction of beings.
8- A person who has wealth..... And does not support his parents when they are old..... That is the reason that leads to destruction.
9- We all know for sure..... This destruction is because of that.
If this destruction is considered salvation..... That is the fourth name.
Venerable sir, please explain to me the fifth destruction, what is the cause of destruction of beings.
10- A person who deceives a brahmin or a recluse, a layman or someone else, by falsely uttering a word, is the cause of destruction.
11- We all know for certain that this destruction is the cause of destruction.
If this destruction is considered salvation, then that destruction is the fifth destruction.
Venerable sir, please explain to me the sixth destruction, what is the cause of destruction of beings.
12- A man who has a lot of wealth, gold, silver, and food, hides delicious things, and eats them alone, is the cause of destruction.
13- We all know for certain that this destruction is the cause of destruction.
If this destruction is considered salvation, then that destruction is the sixth destruction.
O Lord, the name of the Blessed One.....Please show me the alms.
What is the seventh destruction?.....Bringing animals to life.Destruction.
14- Those who are attached to wealth and family.....and do not gather relatives
Despise their own desires by claiming to be rich.....that is the cause of destruction.
15- We all know for sure.....this destruction is because of that
If this destruction is considered salvation.....that destruction is the seventh name.
Venerable Bhagavan.....Please explain to me
The eighth destruction is what is the cause.....that leads to destruction of beings.
16- Those who engage in three types of gambling.....gambling with women, gambling with alcohol, gambling with gambling
Damage their wealth.....all these gambling activities lead to destruction.
17- We all know for sure.....this destruction is because of that
If this destruction is considered salvation.....that destruction is the eighth name.
Venerable Bhagavan.....Please explain to me
The ninth destruction is what is the cause.....that leads to destruction of beings.
18- A man who is not happy with his wife.....and goes to live with a prostitute
And is unfaithful to the wives and children of others.....That leads to destruction.
19- We all know for sure.....This destruction is because of that.
If this destruction is considered salvation.....That destruction is the ninth name.
Venerable Bhagavan.....Please explain to me
The tenth destruction, what is the main thing.....That leads to destruction of beings.
20- A man who is too old.....And is lustful
And takes a young woman as his wife.....That leads to destruction.
21- We all know for sure.....This destruction is because of that.
If this destruction is considered salvation.....That destruction is the tenth name.
Venerable Bhagavan.....Please explain to me
The eleventh destruction, what is the main thing.....That leads to destruction of beings.
22- A man who is a wasteful woman.....or a woman who is a wasteful man
...those actions lead to destruction.
23- We all know for sure.....this destruction is because of such a cause
This destruction, if it is considered to be saved.....that destruction is the eleventh name.
Venerable Bhagavan.....please explain to me
the twelfth destruction, what is the main one.....that leads to destruction of beings.
24- A person born in a royal family.....who is wealthy and desires great
to be a king and rule in wealth.....that cause will lead to destruction.
25- A person who is wise and well-intentioned.....has seen the path of destruction
to beings in the world of existence.....he escapes destruction and seeks prosperity.
The Parabhava Sutta: The 12 Causes of Destruction
Every morning, from the first day of the first month of the Buddhist calendar until the day of the Great Festival (from the 1st to the 15th day of the month of Bhadra), monks recite the Dhamma called the Parabhava Sutta. The Parabhava Sutta is the Buddha's teaching that warns Buddhists about the 12 causes of destruction in their daily lives. The 12 Parabhava Suttas include:
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 1: "Those who desire good things in their hearts and strive to do them will prosper. Those who do not increase their good things will perish." This is the first cause of destruction.
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 2: Those who love are satisfied with love.....but with unkind people, they do not love at all.....with kind people who become friends. Love is satisfied with thoughts.....and goes to throw unkind friends, is satisfied with the dharma or something.....all these causes lead to destruction. This is the cause of the second destruction
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 3: A person who sleeps a lot, talks a lot... and who is careless and does not make an effort, a lazy person who does not have enthusiasm... and is angry a lot and shows it to others. These causes are not good... they lead to loss and loss of benefits, but are too few and too many... they lead to loss of benefits and destruction. This is the cause of the third destruction
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 4: A person who has wealth... and does not support his parents in old age... that leads to destruction. This is the cause of the fourth destruction
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 5: A person who tells lies and deceit to the virtuous, the poor, or the wise, the kings, the scholars, the elders. This is the cause of the fifth destruction
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 6: A person who has abundant wealth and steals it and steals it and makes it available only to himself or his family. This is the cause of the sixth destruction.
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 7: Those who are attached to their nation, family, and lineage and do not gather relatives, friends, and villagers. This is the cause of the seventh destruction.
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 8: Those who engage in gambling, alcohol, and all kinds of gambling, which waste their wealth in vain. This is the cause of the eighth destruction.
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 9: Men and women who are not satisfied with their husbands and wives and secretly engage in sexual intercourse with women and men outside. This is the cause of the ninth destruction.
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 10: Men and women who are too old and have sexual intercourse with men and women who are too young. This is the cause of the tenth destruction.
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 11: Men and women who appoint those who are not thrifty, wasteful, and do not know how to manage their wealth. This is the cause of the 11th destruction
• Parabhava Sutta Katha 12: The king leads the chieftain as a chieftain who does not have sufficient wealth (appearance, character, knowledge, and virtues). This is the cause of the 12th destruction
4- Living a proper life, earning less, spending less, not spending more than one's income, not spending on evil deeds, spending on things that need to be considered, called Samjitthana. The Buddha showed three characteristics of doing business to become wealthy, abundant with many loved ones, to avoid some views that the Buddha only taught people about karma, results, merit, and demerits, and that is why most of his followers are poor. In order for their business to run smoothly, the common people should follow the three directions of the Buddha.Example:
1- Being intelligent is being smart in buying and selling, knowing how to make a loss and how to make a profit, knowing the time, knowing the season of each business, knowing the market for selling such as where to sell at a high price, where to sell at a low price, knowing the needs of the people in each place, what goods they need to sell according to their needs, etc. is called Panchachakhu.
2- Being diligent, trying hard, trying hard to do the work you are doing, that is, not being lazy, not letting it go beyond the needs of the buyer, is called Viryarapbha.
3- Being skilled in contacting many customers, wherever you go, you will always be loved, loved, and able to make yourself loved and trusted by others, being friendly, is called Sanatho.
The Buddha, our Master, has taught us about five types of business that all Buddhists should refrain from and should not engage in:
1- Sattavanijja, trading in weapons for killing, which means making the weapons themselves or having others make them or obtaining them for some reason and selling them.
2- Sattavanijja, trading in people, which means that people should not trade other people to be slaves of someone else or to serve their sexual desires or in any other form. All people have the same right to live freely.
3- Mumsavanijja, trading in meat, which means raising animals, such as pigs, and when those animals grow up, they are killed and sold.
4- Majjavanijja, trading in alcoholic beverages or drugs, which means mixing any substance to become alcoholic beverages yourself or buying them and selling them.
5- Vishvanijja, dealing in poisons or poisons, is arranging poisons to be produced by oneself or having them mixed or obtained for any reason and selling the poisons or poisons.
These five types of business should not be engaged in by laymen, laywomen, and Buddhist monks because they cause insecurity and unrest. Dealing in these five types of business is called mixed business or mixed business, which is contrary to the right business.
For 5,000 years, the Dhamma that brings about these four benefits to any person will bring prosperity and success to that person in this present nation immediately.
These Dhammas themselves are the source and a solid foundation for cultivating and sustaining global organizations, state organizations, and individual family organizations to develop and prosper. If any of these Dhammas is lacking, those organizations will inevitably be in trouble. In each state, there are many organizations such as economics, society, and politics. In the economic sector, such as industry and commerce, if all the leaders in the world lack dharma, the first is laziness, not making efforts in matters of duty, busy with each other, jealous of each other for personal gain, not trying to keep industry and commerce up to date, the economy cannot be immortal because there is still lying, corruption, theft, embezzlement, bribery, and confusion in the course of life. It is necessary to study and create classes to reach the level of moral education, to study according to the path of truth, in the third, fourth, and fifth stages, namely right speech, right action, and right conduct, for many years until the moral education is noble and pure, which is called noble character. If there is a lack of talent and a lack of talent, there is waste, there is no control over the place, there is always a lot of work, one person relies on another, still in the office, relying only on paper and lists, the results of industry and trade will be damaged, and the economy will decline.
If there are these two dharma, but the third dharma is good friends, there are dishonest people in the relationship with the seller, the buyer, there is fraud and deception for some reason, or there are corrupt colleagues who are in league with the buyer or seller, causing damage to the results of industry and trade, the economy will decline.
If there are enough dharma 1, 2, and 3, but the fourth dharma is samjhivat, there is more expenditure than income, through waste or by using too many employees due to inefficiency, which is an act that is done by only one person, we have 4 or 5 people, and it is not good anymore, or we buy too many items to get a percentage from the seller, while there is not enough money to buy other things, which leads to disruption of the process of industry and trade, the economy will decline.
When the economy declines because of one's own incompetence or because one is dishonest and tries to raise the price of goods to counter it, it will cause even greater harm to society and consumers. This view of morality has a broad meaning for all the affairs of the world, as the small point above has already been brought to the attention of the child.
(Work that is useful should be done with effort, knowledge that is barely learned should be strived for, unhappiness that is in the body should be abandoned, and business that is profitable should be pursued.)
(Lesson of the Three Benefits of the Law of Attraction - Pitakathaka No. 48, Sandhana, pages 251-259)
Let's all read the following story to educate our children:
Fairy Tale
The Story of the Ant and the Ant
This story has an ending in French. There was a lazy animal, a ants, in the season of the month of Vesak, Jeshtha, Asatha, which is the rainy season, so it flew around singing and playing as it pleased, not worrying about finding food to store for itself. There was a group of ants, who were hungry and kept rice in their nests, thinking that they would be poor. When the rainy season came, the ants could not find food to eat. They were very hungry. So they flew to borrow rice from the ants and said, "My dear, I have nothing to eat. This month the rains are very heavy and I will not be able to find food. I have come here to ask for a loan of rice. I will wait until the dry season comes. When will I repay you? Please have mercy and help me to get out of this poverty, my dear." When the ants heard this, they asked, "My dear, when the dry season began, why didn't you look for food to eat for yourself? You have a lot of money.What are you worried about?" The ant replied, "My dear! We have no work to do. We are busy flying around in the forest, singing and playing as we please, so we have no food to eat." The ant said, "Yes, how did you sing in the past? Now, you should find a song to sing. The people are singing and dancing. We must sing and dance. Don't stop. This singing and dancing game is for your livelihood. Come on, sing and dance. I will listen to you." The ant replied, "Oh! My dear, you are almost starving. How can you go and dance? Please share some of your rice with us." The ant replied, "We also have some rice, but we will keep it for our relatives and relatives. We will have more to share with you. You can't go and borrow it from others." When the ant heard the words, it was wise to fly away from there towards the abode of the self. It suffered from hunger and thirst, and it was hard to find food. It was a story that I heard, and I listened to it. How can I compare it to wisdom? I said, "Go." The disciple replied, "Please tell me this story to a lazy person who does business with others. When the season for farming comes, he does not work with them, and that season ends. Thus, poverty and hardship also befall that person. Because of the power of gambling, he no longer thinks about doing business and will go to borrow money to eat. Whoever will give it, he will also provide for him. He also clings to the Vedas according to his actions. Just as a ants borrow rice but are not given it, so too. The story of the Ant and the Ant (Song 7) On a green, green field, under the bright sunlight, a group of ants worked hard to find food to store. The ant is eager to pull its legs and arms, trying to crawl,
Finding food to store in the barn, saving for the rainy season.
Even though it is hot and difficult, it endures, the ant tries to bring food
Preparing to cook for the family in the rainy season.
There is a ants not far away, singing and dancing happily without suffering
Not worrying about the future, not finding food to support itself.
When the ants are working hard, the ants say,
Why are you trying so hard to hurt yourself? Come and dance with your strength.
The ant replies to the ants,
I have a lot of work to do
Collect food and store it somewhere, you should think about it.
The ants respond without worrying about the rainy season
There is no shortage of food, now we dance and sing.
The rain is falling, the wind is cold, the ants are worried because they have run out of food
Looking at the ants, they have eaten, because they have worked hard.
Now I realize that I am wrong, I am too happy to forget my work
When I am hungry, I know that I should work hard in my free time.
Don't have fun without rules, be careful not to waste anything
(Excerpt from Fairy Tales and Tales, Part 3)
The Story of the Mother
The Story of the Mother teaches people to know how to do business and respect the truth.
The Story of the Mother is a folk tale that is in the genre of folk tales. Old and old teachers often tell their children to listen to them, especially girls, and the teachings of parents who often use this story as an example for their daughters to understand their own actions that are wrong in the preparation and storage of the wealth earned by their husbands. Not only that, this story also shows the art of relationships in social life. Let me present the main content of the Story of the Mother as follows.
Once upon a time...there was a king named Brahmadatta Soiraj in the city of Benares. At that time, in the city there was a poor man, a husband and wife. The wife was beautiful and attractive to all, but she was a miser and hated by her relatives and friends. One day, Manap and his wife went to fish, but the net broke because his wife did not know how to take care of it. When the husband caught the fish, it went out through the hole. After fishing for a long time, they approached a large ship. The captain and his wife looked from the ship and saw the net broken. The captain's wife said, "Why don't you bring something to feed the fish so that it doesn't come out?" Hearing this, the captain was angry and sent her down to live with Manap. The captain of the ship, Manap, took Manap's wife, who was a beautiful woman. She was Manap's new wife, so she took the net and went to find something to feed the fish that she had caught, so that it wouldn't come out. She followed Manap all the way. When she returned home, she ordered her husband, a wealthy man, to take the fish to his relatives. The neighbors were all surprised because the king and his wife were not kind. When they visited the king's house, they learned that the king had a new wife with a good reputation. One day, the king went into the forest to cut firewood. When he returned, his wife saw that the wood was all valuable wood. She asked her husband to cut it into bundles and hire a neighbor's cart to carry it to the store. When the merchant went to buy it, she sold many of her possessions and built a large house and hired servants. The points mentioned above teach us to organize, store, and take care of the wealth we have earned, so that our lives and families can prosper. In addition, in the story of the king, it is also shown that communicating with prominent people and government officials makes life more prosperous and strong. For example, in the story, the story continues...
The husband also knew the king's grandson, the king's grandson, the king's grandson, the king's grandson, the king's grandson, and the king's grandson, etc. One day, she told her husband that she wanted him to learn to run as fast as he wanted. He did so and ran until he was tired. The wife saw that her husband had run fast and had great strength, so she took him to meet the officials so that he could serve the king. One day, the king went to the forest. The chief told his wife to prepare food for the royal procession. The wife prepared food for her husband and prepared a meal for the king. She thought that the king would be separated from all the officials, except for the chief.The king, satisfied with the service of the king, named him “Chao Ma Ma”. One day, when he was hungry, Chao Ma They thought that they would break the branches and force the king to die. If they could not do it now, the king would go to Borei and break the gate and force it to close. If they did not pass, the night and the day would be a snake and bite until the queen's breasts were covered. Hearing this, the king woke up the king and took him through the three stages. In the last stage, when the snake was killed, the snake's blood spilled and stained the goddess's breasts. The king thought that if he woke up the goddess's breasts, he would not understand, and if he wiped them with his hands, he would not heal. Then he took the snake's body and placed it under the goddess's breasts and licked the blood that stained the queen's breasts. The goddess woke up, woke up the earth and said, "My lord, use your tongue to lick my breasts." King Brahmadatta only heard this, but he was very angry. Without thinking long, he ordered the executioner to arrest my uncle and put him to death at night. The above points clearly show that not honoring the promise will bring harm to oneself, and also clearly show that the great is like fire. Far away, it is cold, but close, it is hot. "But the word of truth still has power for those who respect it, especially those who uphold the law. As in the story, with the obstruction of the gatekeepers of the four directions, because the law of the kingdom cannot take people to be executed before dawn, each gatekeeper also explained many reasons to the executioner so that the executioner would not execute my uncle and make the king regret it later. Speaking of King Brahmadatta, when he woke up and considered all the reasons, he saw that my uncle was very kind to him. He ordered Amata to run after the executioner and went to the executioner at the northern gate, which was the last gate, and brought my uncle back. King Brahmadatta asked his uncle and learned everything. King Brahmadatta asked for forgiveness from his uncle and asked him not to be angry with him because he had given him a suitable reward. My uncle returned to live with his wife in peace. According to this point, respecting the truth and respecting the law really brought true peace. Speaking of the boatman, when he changed his wife, because his wife was a poor woman, she did not help in any business, only thinking about spending money when her son pooped, urinated, did not wash her, she always tore off new leaves, wiped them, and threw them away without regret. All the gold and silver she had had was also melted away until she sold the boat to spend. When both of them ran out of money, the couple went to ask for alms from their children. After walking for a long time, they reached my uncle's house. My uncle's wife saw him and called him for alms as usual and recognized him as her former husband, who had been the boatman. Why is he now begging from him again? The ex-husband, seeing this, was ashamed and took his wife and children and ran away. As the story above shows, no matter how rich we are in business, if we do not know how to take care of ourselves and save money, the wealth we have earned will surely disappear.
Written by: Student Thol Un, graduated with a bachelor's degree in Khmer literature from Preah Sihanouk Royal University
Address: Sya Ampil Village, Baray Commune, Srey Santor District, Kampong Cham Province.
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•(Lesson of the Three Benefits of the Dhamma - Pitaka Atthaka No. 48, Sandhana, Pages 251-259)
Tripitaka > Sutta Pitaka > Khodtak Nikaya > Sutta Nivat > Third Chapter > Parabhava Sutta (Book Volume 54, Page 36)
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• Protection (SN 2: 4)
• Mangala Sutta: Blessings (Khp 5)
• 9 reasons for happiness