Habits & Practice
From TheBuddhism.Net
The task of each and every Buddhist is first to make the Buddha-Dhamma a living reality, by studying it and practicing it in everyday life. When we live in accordance with the Dhamma we can speak about it with authority.
Secondly, a Buddhist’s task is to spread the pure Buddha-Dhamma, or to help the Sangha who devote their whole lives to the study, practice and spreading of the pure Dhamma – which is excellent in the beginning, in the middle and in the end. Thereby we become helpers of humanity and messengers of peace and happiness.
Buddhists should be good examples to others by practicing what they preach; examples are better than any preaching.
It is by the life which a man lives that he determines for himself whether he is proceeding on the right road, or wrong; it is therefore necessary that a man should first understand himself, self-analysis. Rather as a traveler up a difficult mountain path must rearrange his baggage and discard much that will be merely a hindrance, so must the traveler on the road to deliverance examine his own character and decide what he must discard from it.
Any physical action if repeated for some time becomes a habit. In the same way, any thought which is allowed to rise up again and again gives rise to a definite tendency to reproduce that type of thought, and therefore becomes a habit. To think habitually of a certain virtue is to become that virtue, and to allow the mind to dwell on thoughts of vice for any length of time is to become guilty of that vice.
We can sometimes judge our own character by our habitual thoughts and acts. When we do certain things again and again, that is a sign of our character.
we should aim to make counter-habits whenever we have a tendency to be angry by developing loving-kindness and compassion. These mental states, if repeated again and again, will in the end become habits so much so that we will never entertain thoughts of hatred, anger, jealousy and the like; such evil tendencies will disappear before the tendencies of living-kindness, even as the darkness of night fades away before the dawn of the rising sun.
Morality makes a man gentle, it regulates his words and deeds; concentration controls the mind, makes him calm, serene and steady; but it is wisdom that enables the spiritual man to annihilate completely the passions which are ever creating a turmoil within him.
Habits, whether good or bad, become second nature. At leisure moments one frequently reverts to a characteristic type of thought; a miser, for instance, will constantly be thinking about his money, a spiritual man will be intent on his spiritual work. We should practise, therefore, doing good things over again, so that good actions become our habit, thus establishing the cause for the arising of good future result.
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I totally agreed with it, before I learn Dharma I didn’t even aware that my mind function based on subtle mind, I am like running on the automated mode aka habitually. I came to understand this through HE Tsem Rinpoche teachings.
So in the word if I practice dharma diligently I will definitely see good result
Thank you for sharing
There is a saying that we got to watch our thoughts, they will become our words. From our words, they become our actions. From what we do that’s our actions will become our habits. With our habits, they soon become our character.
A change in our bad habits , leads a change in our life. Our success in work and life with be determined by the kinds of habits , we develop over times. All goes to practice what we want in life stepping out of our comfort zone to improve ourselves and transform our mind. Practicing and learning dharma makes permanent.
Thank you Rinpoche for this teachings.
When we consistently learning and practicing Dharma every single day it will make us happier, healthier, and more productive . Then its becomes a habits. Habits must be practiced on a daily basis if they are to have any impact on one’s personal life, or to have any impact on others. If possible we should make an effort to step out of our comfort zone to improve ourselves and transform our mind .
We must break away our bad habits to improve our life by doing good deeds and actions, so it become our habit and , thus establishing the cause for the arising of good future result.
Thank you Rinpoche for this profound teachings.
Lead by example, show your faith by example. So, if we consider ourselves Buddhists, we need to behave accordingly and be mindful, grateful and kind. We must not be abusive, violent or generally be nasty and unkind to others regardless. Knowing about the 5 poison or klesha of: –
Poison/Klesha (Sanskrit)
Ignorance (moha avidya)
Attachment (rāga)
Aversion (dvesha)
Pride (māna)
Envy (irshya)
We should make effort to practice doing good deeds and actions so that it becomes a new habit and shed the old negative habits. When we manage to even change a little negative habit into positive, that would be making that big step forward. It then becomes the new us thus helping us shed the skin of the old negative self. Keyword – effort.
All time, anytime great teaching.
Habits, whether good or bad, become second nature. ~ that is very true, and we have had delusions and the 5 poisons as our second nature.