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Practicing Dhamma

June 17, 2021

Practicing Dhamma means getting down to practicing Dhamma. Do not just procrastinate, listen, and memorize without knowing when to do it.

Dhamma that we should practice according to basic level of understanding are as follows.

1. Practice mindfulness and consciousness all the time

2. Strictly observe precepts until they become one’s habits and wisely donate, share, and sacrifice one’s egoism

3. Try to abstain oneself from all kinds of enticement

4. Try to abstain one’s action, speech and thoughts from immorality and stick firmly to morality

5. Try to understand all kinds of objects and living creatures according to reasoning and facts, and not attach to any illusion

6. Put effort and give priority for Dhamma practice the same way as body cannot live without breath.

7. Try every means to realize how bad action, speech, and thought would result in harmful outcomes and try to stay away from them.

8. We must do our best to do good actions, speak good words, and have good and moral thoughts.

9. Dhamma practice has only one goal, namely wisdom to know impermanence, the state of being subject to suffering, and non-self, and reach the extinction of all defilements and suffering.

If one tries to practice the above nine Dhamma and can really do it, it is already worthwhile to be born as human being.

Lord Buddha gave a brief, fundamental teaching which was easy to understand as follows.

Refrain from committing all kinds of sins

Do all kinds of wise, meritorious deeds.

Purify one’s mind.

These three principles are teachings of all Lord Buddhas.

Patience or tolerance is the Dhamma that extremely burns down defilements.

All sages said that nirvana is the supreme state of Dhamma.

Whoever gets rid of other creatures are not called ascetic.

Whoever causes trouble for other creatures are not regarded as monk.

Harmless speech, harmless action

Observing the Fundamental Precepts

Modesty in consumption

Sleeping and sitting in quite place

Perseverance in practicing mindfulness

These six Dhamma are teachings of all Lord Buddhas.

Like the teaching of Lord Buddha to all monks, “Bhikkus, we do not see other Dhamma which would result in meritorious deeds, yet happen, to occur and increase, like the Right View.

In addition, all of you can select Dhamma which is suitable for your intrinsic nature. It depends on their own intrinsic nature.

Merits of practicing Dhamma

1. Being the most clever, meritorious deed

2. Not being careless person

3. Preserving the truthful Dhamma

4. Lead Buddhism to prosperity

5. Being blissful in this and next worlds

6. Not causing any vengeance or harm to anybody

7. Forgiving to all living creatures

8. Following path of savants

9. Building prosperity and peace for oneself and the public

10. Building complete states of human beings, heaven, Brahma, and nirvana by oneself

This is the most auspicious factor in one’s life.

Buddha Isara