Know how to divide wealth into 4 types
1. Get rid of old debts. 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 for us since we were young. It is not easy for them to raise us up to this point. They have to spend a lot of money, both physically and mentally. They are very tired. Therefore, we as children must pay attention to raising them in the same way. This is called getting rid of old debts. We must know ourselves as debtors and must always play the role of payers. We must support our parents who raised us from childhood to adulthood. Not with a few bags of rice, not with a few million dollars. So for our parents who raised us, it is not a debt or a burden to raise us. But we must know that their parents have suffered a lot because of us. They are both willing to be immoral, willing to not give alms, have no time to go to the temple, have no time to listen to the Dharma, and have no opportunity to educate and advise.
Parents are hungry, poor, and willing to work for others, under the scorching sun, exposed to wind and rain, too hot, too cold, too cold, too hungry, too thirsty. Parents are willing to grit their teeth, suppress their feelings, shed tears, and endure all kinds of hardships, all for their children!
What is the matter that we are grateful for? Just being grateful is not enough. In fact, being grateful to him is not enough. It is not like the Khmer saying (a monk is grateful to his mother, a monk is grateful to his father) (a mother has 12 virtues, a father has 21 virtues). No one can describe the virtues of parents as this much. He said that even if you take Mount Sumeru as a black pen or write on the earth with a pen to describe the virtues of parents until all the mountains are destroyed, you cannot describe all the virtues of parents. This is what all sons and daughters should do to worship and nurture them. This is the repayment of old debts. All sons and daughters should look carefully. He raised us from childhood to adulthood. He fulfilled his role by forbidding children from doing evil, by teaching them to be good Do parents do such good deeds for their children? What do they gain from their children, except for the hardships they have endured? They have not yet received much. They are sick and have died, leaving us. So, let them not die without a trace. We must know more about the gratitude of our parents.
2. New debt: The fact that we have given birth to children means that we 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. Having regained one's wealth, one must realize that one is in need, one is in great need, and must take on new responsibilities: supporting one's children and grandchildren, saving one's children and wife. The Blessed One declares in the Sutta: "Mother, father, mother, children, the community, unbroken Regarding raising children, parents should also understand that although we can give birth to children, we cannot create tolerance and the nature of our children. The accumulation of good or bad natures. Children are born disobedient to their parents. This is a matter of nature that each one has accumulated. Many parents have suffered because their children disobeyed them, both because they themselves lacked education and advice to develop good natures, and because they did not understand the karma and the consequences of the karma of all beings. Every day, suffering burns, but their own hearts are not at ease. When parents understand the nature of all beings clearly, parents are relieved to a great extent. Because if the child cannot receive it, the child cannot listen to it, that is the child's problem, not the parents' fault. As in the Dharma, the Buddha is like someone who shows the way to people who have lost their way. If a person does not do so, it is not the fault of the Buddha, nor is it the fault of the path, but the fault of the person who follows it. Or, like a person walking in the hot sun, sweating, covered in mud, tired and thirsty, when suddenly someone points out and says, "Look! There's a pond with clear water that you can drink, and there's a tree with branches and branches that provide shade. A person who is suffering suddenly tells the person, "I won't go to the pond!" Even if that person doesn't follow what they're told, it's not the fault of the person who told them, it's the fault of the person who doesn't follow them. However, it's the same for parents. We don't educate our children. In fact, parents try very hard to educate their children to become good people for their families and for the nation. Some parents, unable to educate themselves, are willing to take their children to a temple for monks to give them advice and guidance instead. That's why Buddhism has become a nursery for cultivating human resources.
3. Thrown into a deep abyss. The deepest abyss that cannot be filled is the stomach. Our body is like a abyss, our mouth is like a abyss. This is why he wants us to set aside a portion of our wealth for livelihood. This livelihood must be lived in a dharma-like manner, avoiding wrong livelihoods by stealing, robbing, and robbing others.And so on, they grow up and act the same way we do. This is called debt. Having acquired wealth, we must know that our body is like a ravine, our mouth is like a ravine, that is, food for sustenance. This sustenance is also suffering, because the search for food is expressed in the Abhidhamma that the eight aggregates of suffering are: 1. Birth suffering, 2. Old age suffering, 3. Birth suffering, 4. Death suffering, 5. Unhappiness suffering, 6. Past cycle of suffering, 7. Future cycle of suffering, and 8. Suffering due to the search for food. Knowing that seeking food is suffering, but do not let suffering be heaped upon suffering, suffering is the same. But if you seek it righteously, it is suffering alone, because it is only seeking. But if you seek it unrighteously, both seeking and suffering because of acquiring wealth due to unrighteous actions are suffering, both in this world and in the next. Therefore, one should live a life with dharma, abandoning the five defilements, avoiding all kinds of defilements. Because life has come for whatever purpose, use that purpose to its full potential. As the Buddha said to a Brahma: O Brahman, for whatever purpose, do you come to this life, use that purpose to its full potential. Just like our life, what is it for? It is not born to die, but to live, to do good, and to despise others, to envy, to hate others, to kill, to harm, to hold grudges against others. It is to seek refuge for oneself. Do not abandon oneself at all, do not make oneself like a rotten tree floating in the Ganges.
4. Bury in the earth. Having wealth, 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 wealth, or internal thieves refer to the defilements of our own desires. Most people are too attached to debt and wealth, causing them to become stingy, not giving in charity, not sharing with society. Therefore, we must know that internal thieves themselves pose a great risk to ourselves. They can make us become bad people because of wealth. Therefore, we must bury some of our wealth in the earth, which means making merit for ourselves and the next generation. Each of our lives is very precious in the family circle. Husbands and wives always need honesty between each other, sons and daughters always need the warmth of their parents, while parents also need humility and obedience from their children. Wealth has been earned, not that it should not be spent, but it should be spent for a reason that should be spent. Having acquired wealth, we must know clearly in our hearts that there are always thieves in this world, so do not let thieves steal it. We bury our sorrows as treasures. There are two types of thieves: an internal thief and an external thief. Fear of thieves. Here, the internal thief refers to greed, attachment to wealth, and stinginess. The fourth way to spend wealth properly is to bury the treasure, to store it, to store it as a treasure. This is an affirmation that the reason why all living beings die and cannot bring anything with them is only karma and the consequences of karma. Animals that do good are called good karma, animals that do bad are called bad karma, and karma is the inheritance of all living beings. Therefore, in this matter, I, Your Majesty, am stating the spiritual disposition that comes with acquiring wealth and also knowing how to spend that wealth properly: first, pay off old debts, second, pay off new debts, third, throw it into a ravine, and fourth, bury it in the ground. According to the Buddha's teachings, which teach people to divide their wealth into four ways in the use of spending with the right reason. According to the Buddha's advice or sayings: "Four types of wealth are used for the right reasons: first, for the support of 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 fire, water or theft." "Third, spending wealth to save relatives and to entertain guests who come from afar is referring to the five types of sacrifices, such as kinship sacrifices, and fourth, giving alms to ascetics, brahmins, and beloved ones." Maintaining a balanced life refers to knowing how to spend wealth, not being wasteful or not being too extravagant in the present, or knowing how to look to the future because everyone is born as a full human being. If one does not die young, one will definitely become the head of the family. Being able to manage a family well is a person who is not wasteful, while being able to spend wealth according to the path of Dharma is a great blessing for everyone. "The loss of wealth in the way described is called a loss of virtue, not to be regretted. But if it is all gone and even more disturbing, it refers to spending money on various types of things such as spending on women, drinking alcohol and taking drugs, enjoying food as a drunkard, playing games, walking around the streets often at night, watching theaters or singing and dancing often, or often engaging in idleness and bad company, etc.
Being rich with a moral mind that knows how to keep wealth from being destroyed by various disasters, such as fire, flood, theft, etc. Knowing how to hide and organize wealth both inside and outside the house with care, not forgetting it at all times of day and night, this is a good reason that leads to wealth and prosperity for oneself and one's family for a long time to come. A man in any family that has ever prospered has Wealth and then return to a state of utter degradation.
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