Part 01....The Economics of Buddhism
(Buddhist Advice) The 4 Benefits in the Present That the Buddha Taught More Than 2,500 Years Ago. Next, to implement progress that can be accelerated only if an economist or businessman has three more characteristics.
The characteristics of a businessman who quickly becomes successful can quickly become a person with a lot of wealth and become a millionaire in the world.
Understand Business: A famous businessman tells about the 4 Dharmas that he learned and practiced to become rich.
Mr. Ieng Sotheara, a famous businessman in Cambodia, explained the 4 Dharmas that he learned and practiced to become rich to avoid poverty. On the occasion of participating as a guest speaker in the campaign for business owners to help each other in difficult times under the theme “Dhamma to become rich” via the online system, Mr. Ieng Sotheara, The Benefits in the Present, Economics for the present life. It is stated that the four virtues for becoming rich are:
1: The Endowment Of Industriousness: Not being lazy, working hard, and striving. For example: If there is a family, both the husband and wife must work hard and guide their children to work hard. When wealth, food, and other necessities arise in accordance with the right dharma and continuous effort builds up gradually, the second virtue is the Endowment of Watchfulness.
2: The Endowment Of Watchfulness: Protecting wealth and saving the wealth that has been earned well. To maintain property well, we must do five things: (1) prevent confiscation by the authorities, which may occur due to wrongdoing, (2) always look after construction carefully, (3) consider protection from natural disasters, (4) be protected from thieves, (5) be careful of those who want to destroy us. Taking care to manage our property carefully so that it does not get lost in vain is a very good thing, but we should try to do this continuously, practicing the third virtue, which is good friends.
3: Good friends: are good people for us and help us, give us good advice. But please remember: if we want to be good people, we must be good people. Having good friends can be good advisors for us, and going to good advice does not mean those who are richer than us, the important thing is that they can give us advice.
Next, one should continue to practice the fourth virtue, which is balanced livelihood.
4: The Endowment Of Balanced Livelihood: Not spending more than one's income; not spending wastefully (balanced life): The equation of life that must be careful at all times (not boasting, not boasting), doing something according to one's ability. For example: One sees a new, modern car and wants to drive the same car as the other, even though one is not able to buy one, and borrows money from the other to buy the car. This is an act that should not be done, which leads to debt.
Therefore, "Currently, it is seen that young people are lacking in all four dhammas, so if you want to have a lot of money, with dharma, you must develop these four dhammas."
He said that those of you who want to become high and big businessmen should have an advisor and we must work hard to have the right work rules so that we can become truly rich. Otherwise, we will only work hard and save our wealth and have nothing to go forward. He said this: "A good advisor may not have more money than us, or less money than us, but he has better ideas than us, has higher knowledge than us, knows more reasons than us, and can show us the way that is worthy of respect and follow."
Therefore, if you want to do something, you must have a clear campaign and system, and you cannot just sit and think about it. No matter what, you must have a clear and correct plan.
"Knowing these four Pali words will make you a rich businessman"
Of course, each of us wants to have something, and wanting something, no matter how much we want, does not come easily, unless we work hard, persevere, and are frugal.
The principles that make life beneficial, called wealth, are three:
1. The Dhamma view, current benefits or benefits related to daily life, is the primary benefit, the first step, related to work for living, having wealth, reputation, fame, and friends, all are good both for livelihood and for living, with a balance in income and expenses. Especially important is to strive to earn wealth through righteous work.
• Work hard in work • Keep what you have earned • Associate with good people • Live a life according to the right.
The teacher, the king, came and preached the punishment
of a person who does things that should be done first, taking them as the last, and preached this verse:
Udāna kālamhi ឣnutthahano yuvā pāli ឣalsīyam ឣupetō samsānnāsangkāppāmāno ឣkosīto ឣpānaya māgṭha ឣlṣo n vinti.
A person who is young, strong, but lazy, does not make an effort when he should make an effort, has thoughts in his mind that are immersed in the unwholesome life, is a lazy person. A lazy person will never encounter the path of wisdom.
These four aspects of Dhamma and benefit are the basis for solving life's problems and a big step towards progress. I would like to emphasize that the first principle of benefit in Buddhism today is the courage to do business, so that wealth is created, which corresponds to the primary economic principle, PRODUCTION, as we have already discussed, because economics was only born a thousand years after Buddhism. It is estimated that the second principle is knowing how to save the wealth that has been earned, which corresponds to the principle of saving or
