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OOK INTRODUCTION

Over the years, the Most Venerable Phrabhavana- viriyakhun (Phraphadet Dattajeevo) has given many sermons concerning the effective ways of bringing about peace and happiness at the personal and social levels. The Venerable has believed that world peace is necessarily a result of personal inner peace. Throughout these past thirty or so years, the Venerable has researched and studied the teachings of the Lord Buddha especially in regards to the means to creating personal peace. For, without inner peace, world peace can never be.

Personal inner peace is the result of one’s correct understanding of the reality of the world and of life through one’s ‘Right View’. Such understanding brings about ‘knowledge’ in regards to one’s existence on earth, and the ultimate objective of one’s life. When we can know for certain why we are here and what we are here to do, this knowledge comforts and guides us to think, speak, and act in ways that are wholesome. Wholesome thought, speech, and action in turn bring about peace and joy both in this life, and in the ‘Hereafter’.

Contents

Chapter 1:

The Concepts of Personal Transformation

Important Aspects of Personal Transformation

The Harm of the ‘Wrong View’

Radically Opposed Views:

1. The Giving of Alms
2. The Giving of Aid
3. Revering Those Who Are Worthy of Our Reverence
4. Each Individual’s Good and Evil Kammic Consequences
5. The Reality of ‘This World’
6. The Reality of the ‘Hereafter^‘
7. A Debt of Gratitude Owed to One’s Mother
8. The Debt of Gratitude Owed to One’s Father
9. The Means by which a Creature Comes into Being
10. The ‘Sangha’ Who Practice Righteousness, See Clearly with their Own Wisdom the Realities of this World and the Hereafter, and Teach about them to Others

Summary 

Chapter 2:

Desirable Personal Attributes

The Two Levels of Understanding

The Need to Instill in Us the ‘Right View’

The ‘Right View‘ is the Means to Cultivating a Good Conscience and a Sense of Responsibility

1. Being Conscientious of and Responsible

for One’s Own Humanity

2. Being Conscientious of and Responsible for Others’Humanity

3. Being Conscientious of and Responsible for the Morality of One’s Personal Finances

4. To be Conscientious of and Responsible for the Environment

• To be conscientious of and responsible for those around us
• To be conscientious of and responsible for the natural environment

Summary

Chapter 3:

The Enduring Quality of Human Decency

The Objective of a Human Life

The Means to Achieving One’s Life Objective

What can a lay individual do to achieve the primary and secondary levels of his life objective?

The four ways to conduct one’s life in order to achieve the primary level of one’s life objective:

The four ways to conduct one’s life in order to achieve the secondary level of one’s life objective:

The practical route to achieve the first two levels of one’s life objective requires simultaneity

The four ways to conduct one’s life in order to achieve the primary level of one’s life objective:

1. diligently earn one’s livelihood 
2. To safeguard one’s earning
3. Keeping the company of decent individuals (Klayanamittata) as well 
4. To spend wisely 

The Network of Decent Individuals is the Key to One’s Success and Prospenty

Characteristics of False and True Friends 

The Versatile Grid as a Tool 

The Maximum Benefits of the Versatile Gnd 

Summary 

Chapter 4:

The Making of a Decent Individual

Desirable Personal Attributes

The Principles of Instilling the Desirable Personal Attributes in Children

1. Considering and selecting the relevant topics from the teachings of the ‘Dhamma’
2. The qualification of the teacher/trainer
3. The teaching and training of the children

The Means to Develop One’s Desirable Personal Attributes

The Individuals Occupying the ‘Six Directions’ in One’s Life are the Key Factor of the Development of One’s Right View

1. The Front 
2. The Right
3. The Rear
4. The Left 
5. The Below
6. The Above

Summary  

Chapter 5:

The Keys to the Success of the ‘Six Directions’ Concept

Those Who Play the Most Important Roles in One’s Life

The Two Stages of Man’s Personal Transformation

The Failure of the Six Directions

Principles of Service and Social Integration

1. The giving of gifts 
2. Kind speech
3. The practice of altruism
4. Knowing one’s place

Summary of the Six Directions Failure 

The Principles of Service and Social Integration Binds the Hearts

Summary 

Chapter 6:

Book Summary

The Meaning of ‘Man’s Personal Transformation

The Meaning of the ‘Right View’

The Meaning of the ‘Wrong View’

The Reasons for ‘Man’s Personal Transformation’

The Foundation of Desirable Personal Attributes

Desirable Personal Attributes 

Instilling One’s Right View  

The Process of Instilling One’s Right View 

Individuals Responsible for the Teaching and Training of the ‘Right View’

The Failure of the ‘Six Directions’

The Only Stronghold: The Network of Decent Individuals

The Interdependence among the Members of the Network

The Pertinent Solution

The Building of the Network Needs to Be Constituted as a National Policy

The Government’s Role

What the Citizens Expect from its Government

Note    

The Role of the Media 

Summary  

Meditation for Beginners

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