Chapter III
3.1. Dispelling Doubt -----------------------------------------------------------------
3.1.1. Kalama Sutta (The Discourse on Kalama people)
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3.1.2. Unique Advice How to Choose Correct Religion
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3.2. The Remarkable Social Guide -------------------------------------------------
3.2.1. Singala Sutta (The Advice to Singala) --------------------------------------
3.2.1(a). The Four Dirty Actions
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3.2.1(b). The Four Reasons for Doing Evil Deeds --------------------------------
3.2.1©. Six Causes for Loss of Wealth
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3.1.1(d). The Quality of Good-Hearted Friend
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3.1.1(e). The Quality of False Friend -----------------------------------------------
3.3. Social Philosophy for Worldly Life
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3.3.1. The Relation between Parents and Children
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3.3.2. The Relation between Teacher and Pupil
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3.3.3. The Relation between Husband and Wife
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3.3.4. The Relation between You and Your loving friends
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3.3.5. The Relation between Employers and Employees
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3.3.6. The Relation between the Holy Monks and Devotees
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3.1. Dispelling Doubt
Nowadays people are complicated even to lead their own life
and family. There are ample destructive elements for our popular lives. We
cannot run away from them; we have to live together with such complicated and
sophisticated world decorated with beautiful and amazing scientific
developments. Our new millennium is unbelievable and rapidly developed through
technologies. Our world becomes a global village. Human society is
interdependent network that does not make any different from each other. We
live very closely in physical world but very far from each other in spiritual
world. People live in sense of fear; they are afraid of each other. Fear makes
them complicated living in sophisticated world.
Another phenomenon that makes humanity complicated is
religion. Religion should not make people complicated but it does. Sometimes,
we are so hard to understand when religion is mixed with political system. In
my own opinion political system must be separated from religious influence
because politics is clearly connected with greed for power to rule particular
country but religion is closely connected with loving-kindness to love both
friends and enemies equally. According to Buddhism we are all taught to love
both friends and enemies equally. All the religions should work for the
benefits of the whole living society including animals; we should not
discriminate among humanity. We should love them, respect and help them when
they are in need.
