Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

It is the same with everyone who has no meditational
power; their precepts are always in danger of being
suddenly broken.
All four gospels teach the same precepts, that they
might be remembered and kept. Still one should
concentrate, as in the poem written by Thomas Ady:
"Matthew, Mark, Luke & John;
The bed be blessed that I lie on.
Four angels to my bed,
Four angels around my head,
One to watch, one to pray,
And two to bear my soul away."
ii. Doing good. We may now consider briefly the
second aspect of Vinaya.
In the teaching of Confucius, the relation between ethics
and spiritual progress or regress is clearly pointed out.
He said, "To follow what is right is like ascending a hill,
but to follow what is wrong is like being in the landslide
of that hill."
We may now consider briefly the second aspect of
Vinaya.
The Buddha himself clearly warned us in the
Dharmapada:
"It is easy to do things that are bad and not beneficial to
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