KEYS to Living Well (Dharma Words I)

KEYS to Living Well (Dharma Words I)

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAN913
Author: Venerable Miao His and Cherry Lai
Publisher: Buddha Light Art and Living Pvt Ltd
Language: English
Edition: 2005
ISBN: 9789382017189
Pages: 257
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch
Weight 300 gm

Book Description

About the Book

A selection of translated articles that Venerable Master Hsing Yun originally wrote for a special column in The Merit Times, Key to Living Well represents the launching of a new vehicle for transmitting the Dharma.

Arranged in an accessible style, this selection addresses moral, spiritual and social questions that are central to our day-to-day existence. Whether it is a matter of cherishing our good fortune with humility or cultivating tolerance for others, Venerable Master Hsing Yun imparts his wisdom in a pithy and unambiguous manner. Like a diagnosis that precisely identifies a malady and a prescription that effectively cures it, each chapter in Key to Living Well penetrates the core of problems we all encounter in life, while offering us effective solutions to overcome them.

Through maxims on ethics, mottoes for conduct, and injuctions against transgressions, Key to Living Well provides us direct access to the wisdom of the Dharma, equipping us with the means to handle all kinds of situations in life. As such, it serves as a useful manual for one conduct, because after all as Venerable Master Hsing Yun puts it, “Rivers need the proper channel to flow into the ocean. Our lives require maxims to tread on the right path.”

Preface

There are many books and seminars dedicated to giving instruction about how to plan and manage our daily lives. These approaches usually attempt to provide very basic practical suggestions for using time. In the present volume Venerable Master Hsing Yun shares lectures from past presentations as well as new thoughts on his insights about how to plan and live with all the pressures of modern life. He has an approach that is quite different from the many so-called “self help” materials. While it is important to learn certain tasks that save time and make us more efficient, Master Hsing Yun urges people to understand that it is more than rules and ploys that help with planning. The true strategy for dealing with life starts with the understanding that each person has regarding themselves, their situation, and the nature of thought and action. This understanding, from the Buddhist point of view, is necessary for successful change of old habit energy. Unless there are fundamental and insightful developments within our thinking and comprehension, we cannot expect to shift old patterns and permanently leave them behind us. It is this belief that leads Master Hsing Yun to prize learning and commitment to practice as well as to continual striving that leads to transformations of mind and thought.

This volume is filled with very detailed explanations about issues that occupy us from the moment we awake in the morning until the last conscious moment before sleep. The explanations help to frame the problems that are found at every level of activity, whether it is in private or public domains. Having clearly defined the experiences of living, Master Hsing Yun goes on to give concrete advice about how to focus one’s thought and avoid the confusion of a mind that is scattered among the many matters that complete for our attention. It is the Buddhist ideal of concentrated attention that can be a solution to all of us who live and work in the world of freeways, computer, telephones, radios, faxes, email, and encounters with other people. While the external environment can be chaotic and demanding, it is possible for individuals to practice concentration, which permits purposeful action. Mere rules and programming methods of dealing with problems can never solve the complex constantly changing situations in which we find ourselves. Every moment brings a new assault on our sensory domain, new unexpected matters sweep across our mental and physical horizons. Methods that are built on the assumption that there are a limited set of variables, fail miserably in a world that exhibits flux and flow of constant change. It is impossible to create a list of items that can be guaranteed t solve any potential problem in the future. Master Hsing Yun tells his audiences that only when one has created a mind that is flexible and concentrated can we hope to cope with the rush and force of every moment.

Achieving the state of being calm and composed in the face of any event can come from long and continued efforts of focused thought and exposure to the teachings of Buddhist sages. It is in this manner that the Buddhist community becomes an important part of life. Through the community, Buddhists receive support in the form of teaching and practice. One of the facets of Humanistic Buddhism is to take the principles of the teaching and apply them to the world around us. While there is need for inner development, concentrated thought, and calmness of spirit, the outer expression of the wisdom gained must find its place among others.

All of this, and more, is given in the elegant teaching style of the Master. He leads us from one perspective to another in understandable and challenging ways. For any individual who wants to have more control time, work, and obligations, this volume offers a deep and long-lasting solution.

Contents

PREFACE i ONE DAY TO A LIFETIME 1 A DAY'S LIFE 4 BEGINNINGS 6 HOW TO MANAGE OURSELVES 9 LIFE'S DRIVING FORCES 11 THE FOUR MINDS IN LIFE 13 THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BEING HUMAN 15 HOW TO BENEFIT OURSELVES 17 THE WONDERFUL WAYS OF KEEPING BUSY 20 THE USE OF "ONE" 22 BETWEEN SELF AND OTHERS 25 HOW TO GET ALONG IN A GROUP 27 HOW TO MAKE CONNECTIONS 30 HOW TO CONDUCT OURSELVES 33 THE FOUR PRINCIPLES OF LIFE 36 SIX SECRETS TO GETTING ALONG 38 STANDARDS FOR HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS 41 THE WAY OF DEALING WITH THE WORLD 43 PRESCRIPTION FOR TREATING OTHERS 45 FACING THE WORLD WITHOUT RESENTMENT 47 LIFE THROUGH THE MIRROR 49 LIFE'S FOUR "MOSTS" 51 THE FOUR NECESSITIES OF LIFE 54 LIFE'S MAXIMS 56 LIFE Is LIKE DRIVING A CAR 58 THE WORRIES OF LIFE 61 A HAPPY LIFE 64 A BRIGHT LIFE 66 HARMONY THROUGH ADAPTING TO SITUATIONS 68 FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE 70 PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE 72 WISDOM IN HANDLING MATTERS 75 THE KEY TO DEALING WITH TASKS 78 FLAWS IN DEALING WITH OTHERS 80 THE FOUR DIFFICULTIES IN LIFE 82 MATTERS OF PROPRIETY 85 FUNDAMETALS 88 THINGS TO AVOID IN LIFE 90 THE FOUR DON'TS IN CONDUCTING OURSELVES 93 FOUR THINGS TO GUARD AGAINST 96 LEADERSHIP 99 LEADING PEOPLE 101 ASSESSING OTHERS 104 HOW TO VIEW PEOPLE 106 HOW TO WORK WITH PEOPLE 108 FOUR KEYS TO TREATING OTHERS 110 HOW TO TREAT PEOPLE POSITIVELY 112 THE WAY OF TREATING GUESTS 114 CULTIVATION IN TREATING PEOPLE 116 THE FOUR DON'TS IN TREATING PEOPLE 119 THE WAY TO BEING CAREFREE 122 LOOK BACK AND THINK 124 BE MINDFUL OF WHAT LIES AHEAD 126 LEARNING FROM THE WISE AND CAPABLE 129 THE STATE OF THE VIRTUOUS SAGES 131 A NOBLE CHARACTER 133 HOW TO SHOULDER RESPONSIBILITY 136 CHARACTER BUILDING 138 FOUR KINDS OF MIND 140 HOW TO SPEAK 142 LEVELS OF PEOPLE 144 GRADING OURSELVES 146 PEOPLE ARE LIKE HORSES 148 POVERTY AND WEALTH 150 POOR AND RICH, HONORED AND DESPISED 152 THE MAJOR PROBLEMS OF BEING HUMAN 155 THE MOST FEARFUL 157 IHE IMPERFECTIONS OF LIFE 160 To OBEY AND FOLLOW 162 GOOD CAUSES AND CONDITIONS 164 KNOWING OURSELVES 167 PRESCRIPTION FOR CALMING MINDS 169 To BE HONEST AND RIGHTEOUS 171 WISE AND COURAGEOUS PEOPLE 173 THE ABILITY TO Know PEOPLE 175 How TO EVALUATE PEOPLE 177 KNOWING PEOPLE 179 BEING INSPIRED 181 CHERISH OUR FORTUNE 183 KEYS TO LIVING WELL 185 THE WAY TO CULTIVATE 187 FOUR WAYS OF TEACHING 189 REPAYING FOUR DEBTS OF GRATITUDE 192 REMAINING UNMOVED BY SUCCESS OR FAILURE 195 THE WAY OF ESTABLISHING OURSELVES 197 EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS 199 FOUR WAYS OF TEACHING 189 REPAYING FOUR DEBTS OF GRATITUDE 192 REMAINING UNMOVED BY SUCCESS OR FAILURE 195 THE WAY OF ESTABLISHING OURSELVES 197 EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS 199 ON KNOWLEDGE 202 THE WAY OF TOLERANCE 204 MERITS OF GIVING 207 ACCEPTING AND FORGIVING 210 WHAT Is CHAN? 212 THE WORLD OF CHAN 214 DEALING WITH MATTERS WITH A CHAN MIND 216 THE FOUR MOST SUPREME DHARMAS 219 DEVELOPING OURSELVES 223 DEVELOPING POTENTIAL 225 MOTTOES FOR FACING THE WORLD 227 CONNECTING ALL WITH ONE 229

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