The Real Job | Alex P #30 | 4.13.22

Alex and Dhammarato talk about the benefits of seclusion; maintaining good practice in daily life; dealing with others in a work environment; jealousy and competition; right action and right speech; understanding that karma is usually mixed; and responding to dukkha with friendliness and dukkha-nirodha. 

Majjhima Nikāya 57

Kukkuravatikasutta - The Ascetic Who Behaved Like a Dog

https://suttacentral.net/mn57/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=true&script=latin

“Puṇṇa, I declare these four kinds of deeds, having realized them with my own insight. What four?

There are dark deeds with dark results;

bright deeds with bright results;

dark and bright deeds with dark and bright results; and

neither dark nor bright deeds with neither dark nor bright results, which lead to the ending of deeds.

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00:00 Hoping for a better future is a learned behaviour

07:33 We created the box; buying into delusion

09:57 The benefits of seclusion; finding a middle path in working life

22:18 Right speech; seeing beyond competition

26:46 Jealousy and sharing Dhamma; MN 57 ‘The Ascetic Who Behaved Like a Dog’; mixed karma and confusion

38:18 Right action and not needing to protect yourself

40:28 Friendliness is the way to go and what the teaching of the Buddha is all about; giving dukkha nirodha