Buddhist Perspective on the Development of Social Welfare
by Ashin Indacara | 2011 | 61,386 words
This page relates 鈥榃ho should not be Associated as a Friend鈥� of the study on the Buddhist perspective on the development of Social Welfare, employing primarily the concepts of Utthana-sampada (persistent effort) and Arakkha-sampada (watchfulness). Based on the teachings of the Buddha in the Dighajanu Sutta and other canonical texts, this essay emphasizes the importance of effort, knowledge, and good karma in achieving social welfare.
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17. Who should not be Associated as a Friend
[Full title: 17. The Common Features of the Person Who Should Not Be Associated as a Friend]
The common features of a Person who should not be associated with him can be seen in 闯腻迟补办补 as follows:鈥�
1. He does evil deeds,
2. He speaks a false and wrong speech,
3. He approaches someone for only his own sake,
4. He pretends himself as a person who has integrity in spite of having nothing,
5. He makes friendship orally without help,
6. He has only verbal promise to give something with empty hand,
7. He has no essence of moral shame and moral dread,
8. He has only essence of immoral shame and immoral dread,
9. He is ungrateful to others, or he forgets the debt of gratitude of others,
10. He has easy changeable mind such as easy-love and easy-hate,
11. He gives serious harm to or causes misery to others after he has pretended making friendship with others in many ways of crafty,
12. He takes part into the activity of the outcastes, or he joins the members of evil persons,
13. He does not keep his promise,
14. He kills or harms any creatures,
15. He is likely to be knife, sword, and chopper covered or wrapped with clothes,[1]
16. He approaches others with smile and pleasant talk in various ways of crafty although he is not really interested in them,
17. He takes something that he finds in his friend鈥檚 house such as food and eatable things away,
18. He destroys or spoils his friend and his friend鈥檚 welfare.[2]
Seeing the misconduct and bad behavior of someone, one can criticize whether or not he is good or bad person and he should be worthy of associating with him so and so forth. As above mentioned, some bad features of evil person can be clearly seen in order that one can decide who good one is and who bad one is. If a person has the bad features mentioned above, he can be called a bad person and he should be abandoned so as not to make your welfare destroyed because he can certainly spoil your social welfare. It is sure that if one wants to develop social welfare, he must avoid him afar off.
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[2]:
J. I, P. 143. J.A IV, P. 55-7. Pali Text Society IV, P. 55-7.