Responsibilities of Teachers, Students

            Teacher is literally defined as someone whose job is to teach in a school or college or a person whose job is teaching. It is very simple indeed. In human tradition, teacher is a person who is worthy of respect. He must let himself to become worthy of respect; he purifies his mind, view and realizes the things as they really are. [Khudaka Nikaya: 297, Mahamangala Sutta]

I hope we all still remember our foremost teachers, our own parents. They taught us the good lessons of life that we ever had at school.

What Should Be Avoided

Here is the reason why associating with the fool is bad. I would like to give more detail about it as follows:

(a) Indulgence in intoxicants which cause infatuation and heedlessness

                       i.   loss of wealth,

                     ii.   increase of quarrels,

                   iii.   susceptibility to disease,

                   iv.   earning an evil reputation,

                     v.   shameless exposure of body,

                   vi.   weakening of intellect.

The difference between Right and Wrong

         Everyone has heard these two words, but not all understand them well. Here we should know that if we do something right, beneficial, and helpful, we bring peace and happiness, security to ourselves, others and the whole universe. So also if we do something wrong, we are in troubles. In this point, I would like to talk about the right path that all people should walk along in life. First path is called Right Understanding (right perspective) – understanding of natural law of all things, understanding of characteristics of existences, understanding of truths.

Who Must Be Friends of Us and Who Must Not

Who Must Be Friends of Us

(a) he who is a helpmate,

                             i.      he guards the heedless,

                           ii.      he protects the wealth of the heedless,

                         iii.      he becomes a refuge when you are in danger,

                         iv.      when there are commitments he provides you with double the supply needed.