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- 소개/요약In terms of the Buddhist teachings of social ethics there are three steps to be followed to enhance quality of life. They are Liberality (Dana), Morality (Sila) and Meditation (Bavana), the three wholesome actions.Liberality (Dana) represents sharing with the community by practicing generosity, all cultural, ritual and wholesome practices plus offerings of requisites and fulfillment of obligations.Morality (Sila) ensures the conduct of bodily and verbally performed deeds in conformity with the needs of human decency, good character, piousness, Buddhist ethics, monastic rules, etc. For this purpose, there are prescribed steps for training moral rules such as Five moral rules, Eight moral rules, “Poyaday” moral rules, Ten domestic moral rules for lay persons, Ten moral rules for trainee monks, Four rules for purification and Moral rules of accomplishment of training (Higher ordination) (Upasampada?) for the monks. The accomplishment of morality by acceptance of the rule, or by practice of rule is common to both parties, lay and monastic.The actions of a living being, both bodily and verbally are controlled totally by the consciousness. The psychological scrutiny of one’s all-powerful consciousness can only be performed by meditation. That is the method to observe the consciousness with the same consciousness (Self-observation). To observe, recognize, develop, strengthen, and win the consciousness, the only psychologically accepted method is mediation. The creator of, and the manager of all individual lives, communal lives, and the comprehensive net work of actions is consciousness. The method of establishing the human feelings, morality, Buddhism, the character of a monk, and cultivating uprightness, victory, and emancipation in the consciousness is known as meditation.
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