Sunday, March 31, 2013

The way a person who meditates should groom himself according to ‘Karaniyametta Sutta’


The way a person who meditates should groom himself according to ‘Karaniyametta Sutta’

• Develop skills and talents
• Behave straightforward
• Act with absolute honesty
• Be obedient
• Have a gentle nature
• Never be conceited
• Always be in high spirits

  • Should be able to accomplish sustenance and other necessary activities without difficulty
  • Do what one can and, be able to do only (Not to grab excessive work beyond one’s ability)
  • Be simple
  • Have a calm and composed faculty of sense
  • Have intelligence
  • Not to be stubborn and unruly
  • Not to have fixed attachments to families and relationships
  • Not do a single wrong thing which would annoy the intellectuals
  • Never cheat
  • Never verbally abuse others
  • Never wish evil to befall on others because of hatred and anger

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