With sellers and buyers who are dishonest, fraudulent and deceptive for any reason, or with their associates who are corrupt, who are in league with buyers or sellers, causing damage to industry and commerce, the economy will decline. If the first, second, and third dharma are sufficient, and the fourth dharma is lacking, which is the cost of living, which exceeds 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 four or five people working together, which is not good, or we buy too much of one thing to get a percentage from the seller, while there is not enough money to buy other things, which leads to disruption of industry and commerce, the economy will decline. When the economy declines because of lack of ability or because of dishonesty, we try to raise the price of goods to counter it, which causes even greater harm to the national society and consumers. This view of morality has a broad meaning in all cases of the world's people, as I have already explained in this small point above, and the above dharma is a strong foundation for supporting the life of society and family to be prosperous and progressive. “Buddhism is a religion that teaches that problems are morally worthless, but also overlooks or ignores economic problems. It teaches to solve evil with good. At the same time, it teaches to solve problems that are blamed on oneself first, not to live in a slow mind, a floating mind, giving time to people in the world to do all the good things before oneself, and to decide to do good deeds last. Even if it teaches to be compassionate, it teaches to train oneself to spread compassion to oneself first, so that it can be a testimony that just as I love happiness and hate suffering, others also love happiness and hate suffering in the same way.” To facilitate the reader’s consideration of this, I would like to separate the contents of this article into parts:
1-Teaching not to overlook or ignore economic problems,
2-Untie bad ties with good ties,
3-Do not overlook or ignore oneself in solving moral problems.
This is the main principle in this song for those who solve life's problems, which our Buddhism has given ideas and plans for those who are willing to do and want to implement, to experience ease, if not more, but less, according to the height and depth of the thoughts of their own nature, of each person, which researchers in this field have seen that the Buddha truly has bestowed His grace upon beings that no one can deny.
1- Teach not to overlook economic problems in all the problems that affect human life. Economic problems are the first problem, the most frequently, the most important problem, and the most important problem. Why? Because all of us are burdened by this problem, not only when we are born. While living in the mother's womb, we are also burdened by this problem, but we are not yet aware of it, not yet able to solve it, our benefactors solve it instead. The problems are life, hardship, housing, food, clothing, medicine, tools of work, the middle ones are gold and silver, glass, beads for spending, for utensils, adorning the body to fulfill the needs to eliminate the lack of strength, etc. If you have read the economic theories of many Western economists, you will have a clear idea that the purpose of economics is to try to satisfy human wants. Buddhism has proposed two moral principles related to economic principles: the lower one is the principle of TOSATISFY and the higher one is the principle of TO SUBDUE.
The principle of TO SUBDUE is to teach people to strive to establish themselves in a strong economic position, to try to raise their status to a higher level of life, to be courageous and to ask questions, and to do other things. The elimination of desires refers to teaching how to eliminate or reduce the need that is too strong, which can become a passion that is wide and unlimited, and in turn gives suffering. That is, people are always intoxicated with pleasure and try to rush to find things, things to serve their own desires, without caring about the suffering and needs of others, without thinking about the Brahman, without the conscience of the people themselves. Their desires, they are even more endless, insatiable. The servant of his own pleasure (India) not only enjoys himself, forgetting the suffering of others, but also orders him to commit acts of oppression and persecution of others for his own pleasure. He means that the more one serves desire, the more it becomes stronger and stronger, just as if a fire is constantly being added to it, the more it burns and never goes out. Or else, just like an ocean without water, it is filled with the flow of water from the river or the flow of rain that occurs regularly in the dry season. Because of this, it is gradually eliminated or relieved of some desires, do not just let them go, there is no dam, no limit, which can change happiness into suffering at any time.
Knowing these 4 Pali words will make you rich
Of course, each of us wants to have and want, and wanting to have, no possession comes easily, unless we work hard, persevere and be frugal. That is why we all try to work and do various things as much as we can, no matter how small the work or business is, everyone still struggles hard to become rich. Preah Viriyadhamman Pov Sot has a saying that if you know these 4 Pali words, you will be rich in business, namely the letter "U", the letter "A", the letter "K", and the letter "Sa".
The first word, the letter "อ", comes from the full word "ออนนาการักส It means that if we want to be rich, don't be lazy. Laziness is not how to become rich. It is how to work hard. Those who are lazy cannot become rich.
The second is the letter "A:", the full word means "Arakshasa", which means that when we earn money and wealth, we are thrifty. Some people don't, they earn 10,000 and spend 20,000, but they don't know how to thrift. So the second is to be thrifty with the wealth we earn. Then we can become rich.
The third is the Pali word "K:", in Khmer we read as "K" and the full word is "Kalyanamitta", which means associating with good friends. So if we want to become rich, it is related to associating with friends. Some people are good people, but when they associate with bad friends, they become bad. Some people are wise, but when they associate with fools, they become fools. Friends lead the right path, show the right path, then we can become rich.
Fourth, the letter "S" in Pali is "Sah" and the word "Samjitna" means "equal livelihood". We use this word "equal livelihood" a lot. If we translate it in relation to eating, it means not to eat too much and not too little. If we translate it in the meaning of eating. But if we translate it in business, it means that God allows us to do business in a righteous way. The wealth, gold, silver, and money that we have come from our own sweat and blood, that is, we do not steal, do not steal, do not rob others. These are also called "Samjitna".
Another thing that is translated as "Samjitna" is that we know how to divide our wealth in our daily livelihood. Use it sparingly means not to be too stingy and not too generous. I have met some people who have money but are very stingy. Even when it comes to eating themselves, they do not dare to spend on eating themselves. They are willing to sit hungry. Some people are just that stingy.
So, do not be too stingy. Whatever we eat, we eat. And the other is not too generous. Some people are generous but too generous, as the locals say, "Spend money like leaves." So let's not be too generous, because money is not easy to find. Before you get 10,000 or 20,000 riels, you will have to work hard and sweat all over your body. You must know how to divide what wealth to spend, what wealth to keep, what wealth to support your mother and father, what wealth to leave your wife and children to spend, what wealth to do for charity, you must divide it that way. He called it samjitthana, equal livelihood.
So these four Pali words mean and are the same.
These four principles will be a piece of light for family economic managers to use as a guide to maintain and manage wealth to grow.
Three benefits (poem)
The Dharma that the Buddha expressed is the reason for telling the letter of karma
The supreme essence, the constitution of life, studying and acting, the three benefits.
One view of Dhamma means the principle of good deeds, the happiness of living
Example: A. A. S. Whoever does it, lives peacefully, gets the benefits that are in sight.
Two, Samrai Kiktha, good, unique, not different from living
S. Si. Ja. B. has a profound meaning, this nation understands the path leading to heaven.
Three is the ultimate goal, the end of suffering, the end of suffering, because the nation no longer exists
Having achieved the path, the fruit, Nibbana, enlightenment with wisdom, there is no more suffering.
Buddhism and the rights of property
Although Buddhism is a religion that seeks peace and tranquility and gives up wealth for the common good, the Buddha also spoke about the preservation of wealth that has been obtained. In it, the Buddha taught that "Arakshasa" is the willingness to carefully preserve wealth. In particular, the preservation and distribution of wealth according to the family plan. In John Locke's theory and universal theory, he also said: The Rights of property is the provision of property to people or citizens with rights and the pursuit of wealth themselves, which means that citizens have the right to possess that property according to what they have earned. In this regard, the state is an institution that guarantees the protection of the wealth that citizens have earned.
The view of Dhamma, the benefit of the lower level
The four qualities mentioned above are the duties that must be practiced in order to achieve happiness in the present moment, in this very nature, they are considered the benefit of the lower level as the foundation to be a stepping stone for further reaching the benefit of the higher level. If only the benefit of the lower level is not fulfilled well, what ability will there be to grasp the benefit of the higher level!
The things mentioned above are all bad things. The ancients said, "Bad things destroy the grain", so they must be avoided far away, otherwise they will really lose both wealth, fortune and merit and be burdened with sin. Each of our lives is very valuable for the family circle. Husband and wife always need honesty between each other, sons and daughters always need warmth from their parents, while parents also need humility and obedience from their children. Therefore, if each member of a family does not spend their wealth on bad things, that family will be truly happy, without conflict. This balanced lifestyle refers to knowing how to spend one's wealth, not being extravagant or extravagant according to the times, but knowing how to look to the future because everyone who is born fully human, if they do not die young, will inevitably become a ruler of the family.A family is a family, and those who can manage a family well are not some people who are wasteful or thoughtless. Knowing how to spend wealth according to the Dhamma is a great blessing for all living beings. Therefore, this life is a great virtue for acting correctly according to the path as described above, in order to maintain a balanced life, and to act appropriately without excess or excess. In the Dhamma, Book 8, on page 65 of the Tanhavat, the Buddha, the Supreme Teacher, the Master, taught:
Banit phokiya khomedhom no ca banikaveseno phokaganthoy dumetho hanti anava angananthi.
Wealth kills the foolish (the ignorant), but it cannot kill those who seek the path of Nirvana. The foolish, the wise, kill themselves, as well as others, not because of desire, but because of their dependence on wealth. In this Buddhist proverb, it is clearly stated that wealth, when well managed, brings the owner prosperity (reputation, fame, and power). Those who are attached to wealth, who do not devote themselves to doing meritorious deeds, suffer harm because of their wealth. Therefore, wealth is both a virtue and a vice. The important thing is that the owner of wealth knows how to manage and spend it appropriately and correctly (this is a double-edged sword. Using it for good is a virtue, using it for bad is a sin). This is about the issue of the Dhamma-Katta-Venus. When doing the Dhamma-Katta-Venus well and correctly, you must continue to strive to complete the commentary on the Dhamma-Katta-Venus in the present. I will end with a brief summary. Please, all of you who read, study, and learn, please continue to read the book, the Dhamma-Katta-Venus of the Hereafter.
(Just reading the book cannot be successful if we are not willing to go out and do it ourselves.)

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