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'HEALTH IS BETTER THAN WEALTH' - THE BUDDHIST VIEW

5/7/2019

 
Most people are familiar with the modern wisdom statement - ‘health is better than wealth’.

However, many merely think of health as the absence of illness and disease. Buddhism has an expansive view of health which involves the complete person - health of body, mind, and spirit. For that reason Buddhist texts consistently emphasizes moral and ethical cultivation. Here are five examples:

1. One should love those who are virtuous and take delight when others perform wholesome acts. One should never be envious. - Sutra on Auspicious and Inauspicious Conducts
2. Praise a person’s good deeds. Do not point out a person’s faults. Speak not of that which brings a person shame. Listen to a person’s secrets but tell no one. - Sugra on Upasaka Precepts
3. Always reflect on one’s own mistakes but do not remind others of their own shortcomings. - Sugra Vimalakirti
4. Constantly review your own behaviro but do not look at the shortcomings of others. Be harmonious and do not contend with others. - Moon Lamp Samadhi Sutra
5. Always speak kind words. Avoid negative or destructive speech. - Sutra of The Ten Great Dharma Wheels



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