Why cultivate good qualities?

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   hapi buni on Sep 29, 2011 at 1:22 pm

   Why develop good qualities??
   Because .. wealth empowers you to purchase a nice house of your choice and you can decorate it well, enables you to buy clothes that can decorate your body well but NOT you as ONLY your virtue and your very own good conduct can decorate you.

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     waimeng on Sep 30, 2011 at 2:45 pm

     Thanks hap buni, we can be ‘very high class’ in outlook and all but our actions or speech is a dead give away it can be a major turn off even of outwardly you go like WOW. But how much can we be impressed with the outwards it does not last. Our skin will last us 50-60 years, everything gyrates towards gravity anyways. The security we got from our beauty is deceptive and is transient once the beauty fades so does the people who were attracted to that in the first place.

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   Ethan Chu on Sep 30, 2011 at 5:15 pm

   It is sometimes hard to even define good qualities in ourself. We all naturally love ourself too much, whatever we do we tend to think that we are always right and not others. Holding wrong views that is. Since we can be 100% accurately right, so why not follow someone who truly knows what is right? One of the most beautiful things in Buddhism is to let us know, “you can be a Buddha” too!!! Our lives don’t just end when we’re dead. So by relying in our spiritual practice is the best thing that we can do for ourself in this very life.

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   James Long on Oct 9, 2011 at 4:58 am

   Check our mind, observe, daily we focus on people’s good qualities or bad qualities? If we can recognize, it means we have it too, ie Laziness, Bitchy etc.

   When thing turns bad, we only look at the negative side and keep going down and never find a way to climb up, because all the while we have been focusing on the bad side and refuse to look at the other side of the coin.

   We all have the Buddha nature which means we have the capability to become a Buddha. But to become one as Buddha, we need merits to open up all the good imprints in our subtle mind. Hence holding vows, be kind, prayers, mantra will help us to generate merits and opens up all the good imprint we had planted countless time ago.

   Too bad, these days people only want short-term happiness and long term suffering and they think that vows are chains which tie them up but in fact the vows make us free as we are eliminating all the bad qualities in us and we become a better person which does not need to hide.

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   skyong on Nov 14, 2011 at 12:39 am

   We can learn and practice good qualities at any time, young or old. It is never too late. The reason of practicing good qualities is to cultivate it, good qualities which bring us peace and happiness. They are the benefits. If not, learning the good qualities and sharing them to others, what else is there to it?

   And to practice good qualities is not when we have troubles or in difficult positions. Like exercising and eating a balance diet, if we don’t do it periodically, we know it brings benefits to us, but we cannot actually experience the benefits, because we haven’t invest the time and energy into it, just like exercising and eating, how can our body experience good health without actually doing it?

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   freon on Feb 17, 2012 at 11:48 pm

   Very true. How i wish my mind can have lots of wisdom and intelligent. With wisdom; its enable me to see things in more kind ways. Not only benefit myself but also people who i everyday met with. To develop a good quality in mind, i think the first thing to do is disciplinary, mean consistency.

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