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– Nowadays, society is increasingly developing, there are many things to the point of excess. But it is still not enough for people to live a perfect, good life; There are still many problems and shortcomings. So, what else do people actually need to have a fulfilling life?

Article in Giac Ngo Newspaper No. 1273 – Design: BGN Fine Arts Department/Tong Viet Dien

In life, sometimes you feel peaceful; This state can be represented by a straight line. Sometimes you are lucky and cheerful; The chart at this time looks like a parabolic branch pointing up. And then there are sometimes failures and boredom; we draw an opposite, downward parabolic branch. Every person's life is always floating, uncertain with lines drawn like that diagram or more complicated. Knowing how to take care of themselves, people will adjust their life chart so that there is only a straight line of peace or a parabolic branch pointing up. At the same time, if you accidentally fall into a curve like a parapol branch pointing down, how should you face it? The necessity for this life is that each person must know how to adjust their life chart and support others in the best way.

In life, people have many different needs. But in general, there are three main parts: standard of living, quality of life and quality living.

Standard of living: Material life

There is nothing that randomly falls from the sky, it's all created by human intelligence and ability. Any thing that wants to be achieved depends on many factors, but in general it cannot be out of two main groups, which are subjective and objective. Materials needed for humans are similar.

If you want to do anything in life, you start with your own intelligence, skills and efforts. However, sometimes when you try your best, everything seems within reach, but then it slips away due to a reason that many people often mention, which is lack of luck.

Luck is a common generalization of the world. For those who see more clearly, especially in Buddhism, luck comes from merit.

In life, people have many different needs. But in general, there are three main parts: standard of living, quality of life and quality living.

Along with our own intelligence, skills and efforts, to achieve everything in life, we also need the element of luck (merit) and freedom from disasters. If you want to have luck (merit), you need to live well and do good and useful things. If you want to avoid misfortune or disaster, don't do bad things. But in order to do many good things that are useful for social life and not do bad things, one's mind must be large, forgiving and tolerant. Once your heart achieves that, you naturally want to do good things and cannot think evil of others. Blessings and virtues will grow from here, and luck will increase accordingly; Evil things will be eliminated by themselves, and misfortunes will be minimized or eliminated. All luck and blessings come from this spacious mind.

Intelligence, skill, and effort are necessary conditions, while merit (luck) is a sufficient condition. These two conditions are decisive in determining whether a person's material life is high or low. Knowing that, when we look up and see others living a better life than us, we don't have low self-esteem or discouragement. If you look down and see that you are better than others, don't be proud or arrogant. Knowing that, if you want your life to be better, you need to live and work according to the principles: cultivate intelligence, skills, try to make more efforts; Keep your mind open and do good things in purity and joy.

Quality of life: Includes standard of living (material life) and spirit

Along with material things, people also have a spiritual life. These two things have a closely correlated impact on each other.

In life, we often get stressed because we forget to have fun. When you encounter something you don't like, you get angry; There are things that don't need to be said, but are still trying to say them, leading to conflict; There are things that are not wrong, but just do not suit our wishes, we get angry, angry… For all the challenges in life, we always set up a default program for ourselves that is stressful and forgets to be happy. Since then, I always feel stressed in my head and do not have a good spiritual life. To be good, we need to reinstall at least one software, “Remember fun”.

If life is heavy on material things, only worrying about money, fame, eating, sleeping, and enjoying oneself but paying little attention to spiritual life, people often think this is just a piece of raw meat. Once you conceive and live like that, it will be easy to forget moral dignity, thereby living and working easily leading to mistakes and creating bad things for yourself and others.

When material development fails to keep up with moral and spiritual life, it is easy to suffer disasters, leaving many social problems. Nowadays, life is supported by many utilities, so people should be relaxed and comfortable. But on the contrary, the more society develops and the more technology supports life, the busier and more stressed people become, and sometimes even suffer from many modern diseases. Let's ask who, what, and what aspects are these developments and utilities serving? Do we need to review our lives to avoid falling into this paradox?

If a life is materialistic and has no ideals, it will be emotionless, no different from living meat. On the contrary, if one is only spiritually inclined, it is easy to fall into illusion, impracticality, and fantasy. By skillfully balancing spiritual and material life, people will have correct understanding and a perfect and complete life.

When hearing news that storms and floods are coming, having a solid house will help people be more confident. When hearing news that electricity and gas bills… are about to increase, people with abundant financial assets will worry less. Poverty often makes people feel miserable. When faced with adversity, people often get used to seeing suffering and forget to look at the positive side.

When you encounter favorable circumstances or luck, you feel excited and sometimes arrogant. When faced with adversity, we feel humiliated, depressed, and sometimes no longer want to live.

When you encounter favorable and lucky circumstances, be careful not to fall into the path of corruption, depravity, or loss of morality. If you have to face adversity, you see this as a good opportunity to try to practice and improve. There are many values ​​​​that can only be found when experiencing the challenge of adversity, not in successes and smoothness. Adversity is the factor that makes the great deeds of Great Bodhisattvas achieve Buddhahood. This is a very interesting thing.

Material things will be the destination of those who lack intelligence, and it is only a means for those who have intelligence. Eat to live, not live to eat. Material only has the value of maintaining life, and how to live is what is necessary, not just living for material things, being controlled by material things. For life to be meaningful and valuable, people need to live upward and with ideals. To do so, you should not let material things affect your spiritual life.

Once you have eaten your fill of delicious food, you will no longer crave other ordinary things. Once people have a high enough ideal of life and a fulfilling spiritual life, they are no longer controlled by material things. The reality is that when in a state of absolute silence, nothing is valuable enough to dominate anymore, including material things. In return, people will live and work very actively, with a spirit of sacrifice, giving, for others, for real life. We have a fulfilling life.

Living with quality: Life value system

There will be many good and beautiful definitions of moral conscience. But the moral life of conscience sometimes does not lie on those words. Just put yourself in the mood of others to understand and sympathize, and each person's moral conscience will arise. A doctor who knows how to put himself in the patient's state of mind will know that everyone who is sick is in pain and anxious. It's the same if I get sick. Since then, in addition to his professional work, this doctor also has a heart for sympathy, sharing, comforting patients, and is dedicated to his work. Thanks to that, the patient feels reassured, less painful… This doctor has had a life full of conscience and ethics, worthy of the saying “a physician is like a mother” (A physician is like a kind mother).

This is a noble life, no longer limited to material things; but matter, spirit and intelligence are all present, fully appearing in the way of thinking, acting and doing. A doctor came home from work all day quite tired, but heard that a family member next door suddenly had an emergency illness. If you just live well and aim for success, this doctor will tell everyone to take you to the hospital. But as a person who lives a positive and meaningful life, he will think that he is tired but not about to die like the person next door; immediately personally came to examine, give first aid and make thoughtful arrangements for going to the hospital; Regularly contact to ask about treatment results… If there was such a good and enthusiastic doctor, everyone would appreciate and admire him. With many similar positive deeds, when we look back when we are old and weak, we will feel that the life we ​​lived was very meaningful. It's a positive, meaningful life.

In life, we must not only live successfully, but we must know how to live well, with ethics and conscience. Not only living well, ethically, and conscientiously, but also living positively and meaningfully… Striving to gradually increase in thinking and working like that, merit and wisdom will also increase, then life will increase. Our lives are bound to improve every day.

If you practice meditation properly, your body and mind will be transformed in a positive direction. The body is healthy and peaceful, the mind is concentrated, the mind is clear, the spirit is joyful and full of life. This is the source of happiness, the root to clear life, no longer being stuck.

In life, we must not only live successfully, but we must know how to live well, with ethics and conscience. Not only living well, ethically, and conscientiously, but also living positively and meaningfully… Striving to gradually increase in thinking and working like that, merit and wisdom will also increase, then life will increase. Our lives are bound to improve every day.

When the body is at peace, the mind is happy, the heart is boundless with joy, the human heart becomes large, people often become generous, live positively, live more for others than for themselves. The source of merit and virtue grows from here.

When practicing meditation, the mind is quiet and the mind is clear. This is the source of wisdom; is the best condition for intelligence to develop to its fullest extent. From here, when looking at any event or situation, you will see all problems fully. When you see, you immediately know. This is called wisdom. This intelligence helps people know the principles to solve all events and situations in a timely and perfect manner; is the skill. In this way, people will develop their intelligence and skills to the fullest and in a timely manner. At this time, life energy is abundant, so there is enough capacity to strive in all aspects to the highest level. At first glance, everything necessary for humans comes from the practice of meditation and comes from a meditative mind.

Knowing how to practice meditation and skillfully apply the meditative mind to life and activities, people will have all the elements to achieve success. That is knowing how to adjust your life chart in a peaceful and increasingly progressive direction. If we ever encounter an unfortunate situation in the chart going down, thanks to the concentration, wisdom, and boundless power of the meditative mind, we can feel calm, normal, and nothing can influence us. Thanks to practicing meditation, we can adjust the life chart for ourselves and others in the most perfect way. You don't have to wait for difficult times to think about it. Every day there is always silence to review actions in life and promptly correct mistakes; Always cultivate calmness, wisdom and life capacity. Accordingly, to live wholeheartedly, when we encounter misfortune, our minds will be at peace thanks to that daily way of living.

When the body is at peace, the mind is at peace, the joy is boundless, the human heart is also immeasurably large and spacious. This is the source of merit and luck.

The mind is calm, intelligence is developed properly and brightly, skills are also promoted promptly and fully. Life energy is abundant, and efforts accordingly reach the extreme.

The blessings are vast and the luck is great. Bright intelligence, rich skills, professionalism, punctuality, combined with your own tireless efforts that do not lead to success, have never seen that!