Ethics

Helping others, if possible, but at least not harming them is the way to live an ethical life.

To be a good human being, we need to adopt ethical values. The foundation of this is being honest with ourselves and others.

A clear outline of the structure and key concepts of Emory University’s Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning program.

How to engage with the world to contribute to beneficial global change.

Basic Buddhist practice entails training ourselves in three areas. We can train in them in order to overcome our own problems and sufferings, because of concern for our own well-being. Or we can train in them with love and compassion in order to be of more benefit to...

Introduction The topic of karma is central to the Buddhist teachings and relates very closely to ethical self-discipline. We use ethical self-discipline to overcome and rid ourselves of karma. This fits nicely within the context of what are known as the “four noble truths,”...

Review The three trainings in ethical discipline, concentration and discriminating awareness are always focused on helping us to overcome our problems and any suffering we experience. The method is to identify the causes of our difficulties, and to apply the three in order to...

Review On the initial level of spiritual development, we exercise ethical self-discipline to refrain from destructive behavior. Our aim is to avoid things getting worse not just in this lifetime, but in future lives as well. We strive for better rebirths and the ordinary types...

Review We need to set the proper motivation; namely, that we wish to benefit all beings and to achieve a state of enlightenment in order to be able to do so. With this motivation, listen to these teachings on The Foundation for Good Qualities with the sincere wish to put them...

Engaging in Enlightening Conduct  Once we take the bodhisattva vows, which are the essence of developing this engaged level of bodhichitta, we need to actually practice what’s called “enlightening conduct,” bodhisattva conduct. This is actually what bodhisattva vows...