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Being Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life by Hsing Yun, Tom Graham

Being Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life Hsing Yun, Tom Graham ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 195
ISBN: 9781932293340
Publisher: Buddha's Light Publishing

To start, it's written from something of a Buddhist triumphalist standpoint. The talk is given in English with simultaneous translation into Thai. The mind of every sentient being discriminates, putting these things into convenient categories, labeling them "good," "bad," and "indifferent" according to how it perceives them. Statements like "Early Buddhist philosophy is a royal highway for all those who wish to attain the summum bonum. This is the final talk of the retreat. And there are, of course, gradations within those categories. Environmental problem, global warming or climate change is not Buddhism alone can do, every part of the world must participate and give the importance in solving this problem, otherwise our world will be destroyed with what we behave in everyday life. The sangha is in the 5-Day Applied Ethics Retreat as part of the spring Asian Tour. In the last five years we have been trying to offer the teachings in non-Buddhist circles through classes in Europe and Hong Kong. We have now started What is being and non-being? How do we apply the dharma into our daily lives? Being an ethical life makes us value, honest, good citizens, friendship with our fellow men, we contribute to the good of society as well as to improve ourselves and community. This is the First Noble Truth of the Buddha's teaching, and far from being a vague philosophical speculation, it is something that each of us experiences first hand for him-or-herself in daily life. From the different term of reference mentioned above, however I try to show the relationship of Buddhist ethic and environmental conservation which we can study and apply for social practice in order to preserve our environments. In this study of The Role of Buddhist Ethics in Daily Life, I will mainly emphasize on Buddhist ethics as my subject field, from Buddhist perspective, which plays a very important role regarding as a basic foundation of Buddhist doctrine. William said: “We want to take meditation off the cushion and spread it into the workplace.” Graham explained the principles translated simply into everyday life. The staff aim to bring Buddhist practice to the workplace by following a code of ethics based on Buddha's five precepts, which include helping others, truthfulness and generosity. Deal with modern ethical interests. Can we really live a life in which Badiou's notion of Events as “explosive” or “out of joint” or “haphazard” are experienced as the normal, but wondrous, reality of our everyday lives?