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enjoying listening to Dhamma discourses. Comment - Both greedy and Faithful are civilized and are fond of luxury. However, the former is greedy, stingy, lustful and cunning while the latter is liberal, generous, devoted and pious. 5.1.1 b Person with Angry Nature and Intelligent Nature Both types are crude and unbecoming in department. They are usually slipshod and untidy. Both types like sour, salty, bitter or pungent food. They cannot understand sights and sounds. They always react with abusive words, hatred, violence, and wrath. Therefore, the anger dominant person and the intelligent dominant person have common characteristics, which become their second nature. (until such times as when they begin to reform).Yet they differ vastly in many respects. Angry Nature - The anger nature person always shows grudge, revenge, envy, jealousy, slander, pride and stubbornness. Intelligent nature – The intelligent nature person is the opposite pole of the angry nature person.. He is free from grudge, jealousy and is amenable to good advice. He does everything with mindfulness and wisdom. He is quite aware of the coming existences and so is fond of doing good deeds for fulfillment of perfection.- (paramis). Comments – An angry nature person is crude in manner, untidy and undisciplined, loves pungent food and reacts violently to ugly visual forms, and unpleasant sounds. An intelligent nature person is free from the evils of the anger. He is ready to learn from the wise and is generally mindful. He is farsighted and fond of virtuous deeds. 5.1.1 c. Person with Deluded Nature and Pondering Nature Deluded Nature - A deluded nature person is associated with ignorance, delusion and forgetfulness. He is usually perplexed and confused. He cannot distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad. He is incapable of making his own judgments, so follows the opinion of others in denouncing or praising some one. Since he is devoid of mindfulness and wisdom, he wastes his time by being lazy, indolent and skeptic. He is the victim of sloth and torpor. Pondering Nature - The Pondering Nature person also lives in the way of uncertainty and skepticism. He is indolent and incapable of doing moral deeds. He flocks with those of the same feather. He indulges in useless babbles, speculations and imaginations, so he becomes a useless person, squandering his time in vain. Comments - A deluded nature person is generally idle, confused and deluded. He cannot differentiate vice from virtue and right from wrong. He lacks of power of judgment and is void of mindfulness and wisdom.. As for pondering nature person he is incapable of doing moral deeds being very lazy. He talks away his precious times and does nothing substantial. 5.1.2 The Origin of Character - Carita Page 42 A Gift of Dhamma Maung Paw, California
Character distinguished one person from another; people differ in outlook, attitude, habit and tendency. Why In the previous existences if his deeds were mostly influenced by greed, then past action (kamma) cause him to be greedy nature person. If anger were significant in his deeds in the past lives his tendency in the present existence would be one of angry nature. If ignorance accompanied his kamma in the past lives, now the result will be an anger dominant person. If a person loved wisdom in the past and did meritorious deeds pertaining to wisdom (paññá) he will now be reborn as an intelligent nature person. In the same fashion, deeds accompanied by faithful nature and intelligent nature will correspondingly result in faithful and intelligent nature.. Thus we can now see that past deeds are the root cause of present character We ought, therefore, to perform meritorious deeds accompanied by faith and wisdom so as to acquire good character in the next existences. 5.3 Tendency Continues Life after Life - Vasana Predisposition plays a role in a person's life, past or present. Tendency to proliferate bad habits is promoted by mental defilement. Tendency (Vasana) is based on morality or good deeds are classified as wholesome wish. This tendency is inherent in the mind-continuum of all beings. Thus in your past kamma actions if you have cultivated greed along with them, your tendency will now be greedy in nature. If you do not reform this bad tendency in this existence, greedy nature will continue to dominate you in your future births as well. Anger, delusion and intelligent characters also, will continue to dominate likewise. If you are endowed with wisdom character now and if you cultivate wisdom continually, this tendency will produce its own result here and hereafter. You will be reborn a person with wisdom in forthcoming existences. If you had resolved for the attainment of Buddhahood, you can be virtuous of your wisdom nature tendency, achieve this supreme goal with wisdom predominant. If you had resolved to become a chief disciple, you may become one like the Venerable Shariputra, second only to the Buddha in wisdom through wisdom based good deeds in the series of past existences. Therefore it is of paramount importance that we abstain from evil conducts in this life and to develop a virtuous noble character and to have a noble and virtuous person in our next life. Meditate on Corpse - Those who have greedy nature should as an antidote, mediate on unpleasant deplorable sense-objects such as decaying corpses (meditate on unpleasant corpse. Then only tendency to lust will gradually fade away and disappear totally. Meditate on Loving Kindness - As for angry nature persons they should now practice loving kindness meditation constantly; mettá is the cool element which can extinguish the flame of hatred. Inhale and Exhale Meditation – Deluded nature persons should approach the wise, learned, and clarify their delusions. In addition, they should practice Anapana (inhalation-exhalation) meditation disappear in due course. Page 43 A Gift of Dhamma Maung Paw, California
Page 1 and 2: ABHIDHAMMA IN DAILY LIFE The Princi
Page 3 and 4: About The Author: Ashin Janakabhiva
Page 5 and 6: The Venerable Bhaddanta Janakabhiva
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Page 9 and 10: teaching. Our Buddha has expounded
Page 11 and 12: Lack of moral shame in pali is ahir
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health. The correct choice of food
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Example - Yama: Sinner, while you a
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more evil deeds. In the past when a
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