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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
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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