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PREFACE
... vi
CHAPTER 1:
Chocolate Frosting and Garbage
... 1
CHAPTER 2:
My Favourite Pastime: Complaining
... 15
CHAPTER 3:
Speaking about the Faults of Others
... 27
CHAPTER 4:
Practising Buddhism in Daily Life
... 41
CHAPTER 5:
Transforming our Daily Activities
... 61
CHAPTER 6 :
Buddhism in Modern Society
... 73
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Chapter 1:
Chocolate Frosting and
Garbage
3
A Kind Heart
Chapter 2:
My Favourite Pastime:
Complaining
16
Contents of Complaints
Why Do We Complain?
Antidotes to Complaining
Chapter 3:
Speaking about
the Faults of Others
28
The Motivation
The Results
Close Resemblances
Chapter 4:
Practising Buddhism
in Daily Life
42
Upon Waking Up
Morning Meditation
Greeting Others
Cultivating Mindfulness
Chapter 5:
Transforming Our Daily
Activities
62
Waking Up
intense suffering,
I will hold such a rare one dear,
As if I had found a precious treasure.
Bathing
Sleeping
Om Vajrasattva Hum.
Chapter 6:
Buddhism In Modern Society
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out and buy all the things that everybody else has,
even though your house is already filled with things
you don’t use. In this case, what you are saying and
what you are doing are contradictory. You tell your
children to share with other children, but you don’t
give things to charities for the poor and needy. Look
at the homes in this country: they are filled with
things we don’t use but can’t give away. Why not?
We’re afraid that if we give something away we might
need it in the future. We find it difficult to share our
things, but we teach children that they should share.
A simple way to teach our children generosity is to
give away all the things we haven’t used in the last
year. If all four seasons have gone by and we haven’t
used something, we probably won’t use it the next
year either. There are many people who are poor
and can use those things, and it would help ourselves,
our children, and the other people if we gave those
things away.
Another way to teach your children kindness is
to refrain from buying everything that you want.
Instead, save the money and give it to a charity
or to somebody who is in need. You can show
your children through your own example that
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