It is natural that everybody longs for a healthy and happy life. We can see people striving for what they believe, hoping their great dreams come true someday if they find a way. Just as we, as faced with ups and downs of life, are suggested to have a good friend to encourage and motivate to go on, so also, it is taken into consideration for all of us to have an effective means in order to reach our target in a short span of time. Now let’s go through with the following good rules.
All we from the outset need to do is to become a virtuous one. It is of vital importance to tell the truth and to act righteously whenever and wherever you are if you really want to be in a good condition. The reason is that no one likes to associate with a wicked one, and that good conduct is the infrastructure of building a better life. It should be borne in mind that morale and morality are the pillars of our life and the passport to our future, that will allow us to enter the gateway to success. There is no other thing more worthy of preserving than it that is a core of evaluating if one is valuable. No doubt that such reputation and dignity as well as respect come to just those who live in accordance with Form and Function. The question is whether it is possible to keep ourselves in high moral status when we get into cut-throat competition. The answer is, “Yes, we can”,. Believe in this: where there is a will, there is a way. Life possessed of property and power means so much to some who live for possession, on the one hand, if there is no morality, it is of no use to those who value it more assuming that nothing under the sun is comparable with virtue. So, be righteous one not in action only but in speech as well as in thought.
The next step is to pursue general knowledge. Needless to say, having knowledge in respective fields to some extent makes one famous and fabulous. One is able to grasp at his opportunity by virtue of which. To know, to note, to memorize what is seen and heard is a good habit. Knowing something is better than knowing nothing even if a little knowledge is very dangerous at times. A person without knowledge is like a robot without sense and thus he takes untruth for truth and truth for untruth making many a silly mistake. Now is the opportune moment for you to inquire further into the matters of future feather in your cap should you keep burning-desire to higher position. As long as we do not enough cognition, we are still far from advantages arisen out of discussions and communications. Only when we get sense of what happens around us and beyond, can we take part in social activities and give a hand to the needy. From now on, plan for persistently and purposefully preparing for knowledge to help gain what you are standing for.
Will we be well-off by merely keeping the two above mentioned? No! You will ask me why. Because as yet we have not a good friend, a torch to show the way to break through every peril of life. Having association with a real friend is like having a golden-pot that never comes to shortage of all we need. We cannot avoid relationship with one another in day to day life for man is a social animal. It does not matter how many friends you have, but how you treat others and whether you have an excellent companion and been so to yours matter most. Be social to all with a well-meaning, and maintain one ready to instruct to you what is right or wrong. When it comes to the point, who guides and advises pointing to both the pros and cons of our behaviour regardless of our different standpoint is who we ought to associate with in the long term. No one but gifted one can stand alone in the swirls of untold pain of human life for man is intrinsically not perfect. Remember the Lord Buddha’s admonitions: to associate with the wise and not with the foolish; on hearing their talks, one becomes only a noble, not an ignoble. Here, one we call a buddy is one who is virtuous, upright, good-minded and high self-esteem. A life with no real comrade is likened to be a bird with no legs and wings. He cannot be found at a dinnerparty only at a time we are in a tight corner. Due to this matter, there comes a saying--a friend in need is a friend in deed. As love begets love, one with a big dream must, first and foremost, be a good one to join forces with others to achieve great things. Be convinced that good fortune will come to you on the day you meet a real benevolent friend.
And then, whether or not we are soft-spoken and eloquent is to be taken into account because without the art of which we can do nothing to persuade and pervade our perspectives. Well-spoken ones are upwardly mobile ones for such ability is nothing but a secret to success. In contrast, talking through only your hat or being just a talker is not everybody’s cup of tea. Never hesitate to follow up these rules--speak less, listen to more, ask advice from the other, be ready to go effectively by all good and beneficial. We see many people engrossed so much in their terms to have their say that they have been far from both the benefit and the point mainly discussed, not having understood how advantageous it is in paying attention to other’s outlook. “We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less,” said Diogenes. Your goal is neither too far nor too close to you if mending. Now, let’s deliver an intelligent speech to strike it rich.
As a matter of fact, as things never go easy by just word of mouth, it is crucial to us to put our knowledge into action. In my view, deeds are absolutely needed more than words. It is only when we participate in team-work and neighbourhood with a decent frame of mind that we become well-informed and able to mend and mould our characters. Live actively and intelligently through share and share-alike living and team spirit, that is a good characteristic of a great man. We can see in the football match how important part team spirit plays on the way to development not in society only but in state also. In doing so, only our loving-kindness and goodwill matter most. And taking responsibility on the part of what we did and do.
Then, it should clearly be borne in mind to love and value your precious and priceless culture and literature wherever you are. Moreover, never look down on others and try to support them without discrimination between inferior and superior if necessary. However vital it is to change with time to keep abreast of current affairs and to hang on high-tech, we should not allow our heritage to be cast aside. We must have both feet on the ground even when in a state of being prosperous. This is because of the fact that the glory and dignity of a country or a nation is based on the higher level of its culture and literature. Let’s sink in the essence of it we are expected to be devoted to.
And then, food for thought here is which level is called a higher status of living. Since man is a craving-creature, the more we get, the more we want. We cannot explicate our need and want due to lack of understanding what we are living for and why thus chasing after a hunger for endless sensual pleasure. What on earth the foolish are creating a circle of endless searching, whereas the wise are absorbing in satisfaction and contentment with all they have through realizing they have nothing to do with worldly pleasure on the way to noble life and real happiness. Material property is built on the very edge of momentry enjoyment, on the other hand, contentment endowed with powers of reasoning and comprehension lasts ever firmly and securely. The greatest man in the world is he who is satisfied and able to get rid of his thirst for all things. Not to get caught up in the rat race; at any rate, be contented with all you earn.
It is, in truth, taken for granted that victory belongs to the most persevering. It is only through wisely spending a lot of time and diligence not for the welfare of ourselves only but for all that a stroke of good luck comes into us. Now life-span is completely limited with time, who loves his life must love his time so as to reach a bed of rose. Noticing “time and tide waits for no man’’ and setting out to wipe out bad behaviours and self-centred attitude as well as ever wishful thinking, we should keep on our attempts. Nothing is impossible to those who have resolute mind, lofty aim and effort, too. You are the master of your destiny, and so you can do all. Believing in it, do it right now to do well.
After that, we are to be mindful of aim and object of life or of where and who we are and what we are seeking for so that we can know what to do and how to do and why. With forethought and focus on flying high, let’s go on and on. Fortune favours us fairly at the minute we mind out for improvement on property and purity of mind. Be aware of what and how is happening around the world so as not to be left behind the date.
And the last one is education. It goes without saying how and why prominent and powerful it is at the present day. Today is IT Age, and the world has been termed Global Village, where English Language and Computer together with Internet are applied to communicate and talk all matters over with one another. To keep up with the time, everyone is expected to be educated to some extent especially the youth to be well-rounded and well-adjusted adults. And pave the way for them. Why? Because the youth are our future and dreams. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth,” said Diogenes. So evident is it that there is no other way but education to build a valuable life, and that things and even knowledge without education are as dangerous as a devil factory. And you must be more educated not to underestimate and treat others like dirt but like yourself when you are informed. In fact, all is well and truly in the bounds of wisdom. If so, do not wait for opportunities, make and take them, by hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
If you have already bowed down before success and happiness praised by the wise, the time is ripe for you to consider and distill the value of what has been talked over and to apply it in life. Because if you go on with these, you will get what you want.
Ashin Sumana (Kyauk Phyu)
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