Examples of using Constructive behavior in English and their translations into Indonesian
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In the long term,the main cause for happiness is constructive behavior.
We're not talking about the constructive behavior of what a Buddha does.
From the Buddhist point of view,the cause of happiness is constructive behavior.
Constructive behavior is better than destructive behavior. .
If we experience happiness, we can be certain that it ripened from constructive behavior.
For constructive behavior, we just have unawareness of deepest truth.
Unhappiness results from destructive behavior and happiness from constructive behavior.
Whereas happiness derives from constructive behavior committed out of wisdom and compassion.
Constructive behavior refers to when we feel like swatting a mosquito to kill it, we don't act on our feeling.
Likewise, when we experience happiness,it is the result of our own previously committed constructive behavior and actions.
Constructive behavior is the restraint not to kill and to find a more peaceful way of removing the mosquito from our room.
We need to be convinced of the causal relationship between destructive behavior andunhappiness, and between constructive behavior and happiness.
The way that it's explained is that constructive behavior is where we refrain from destructive behavior, which we need to thoroughly understand.
But if we never hunted and had no interest in hunting,then the fact that we don't hunt is not counted as constructive behavior, even if it is a good thing.
So, constructive behavior is refraining from acting negatively when we want to act negatively, when that is the habit or tendency that we have.
So, what we are encouraged to do could be something that is directly constructive, constructive in itself,or it could simply be something that helps support our constructive behavior.
There can be constructive behavior that is not compulsive, which is not based on this belief in the false“me,” but here we're talking about the karmic one, the one that is compulsive.
We might think that happiness and pain come to us as a reward or punishment or things like that,but Buddha spoke of the true cause as destructive and constructive behavior.
In carefully cultivating constructive behavior and trying our hardest not to harm others, we create the basis and the causes for a happier now, and a happier tomorrow.
When we use, instead, the term“positive potential” for this term,we more easily see that what is meant is that constructive behavior builds up a positive potential for experiencing happiness.
We're talking about compulsive constructive behavior, somebody who is compulsively doing good which is based on an ego trip, compulsively having to be perfect and do everything right.
In our last session, we saw that if we experience unhappiness, it's the result ofdestructive behavior, and if we experience ordinary happiness, it's the result of constructive behavior.
The phrase is a“friend for constructive behavior,” with the word“constructive” sometimes translated as“virtuous,” meaning a friend with whom our constructive behavior grows and grows.
We saw that we can understand that if we are experiencing unhappiness it's the result of destructive behavior, and if we're experiencing ordinary happiness it's the result of constructive behavior.
Constructive behavior is not just continuing education but also working on ourselves to be able to develop the emotional skills as well, to be able to help others in an effective, balanced way.
It is by having confidence in this that we will have more and more confidence in the most basic law of karma,which is that destructive behavior leads to unhappiness and constructive behavior leads to happiness.
It is important to remember that the discussion of karma includes urges that bring on not only destructive behavior, but also constructive behavior mixed with confusion and unspecified behavior mixed with confusion.
With the deepest non-conceptual understanding of voidness- that there's no solid“me” and so on- you start to rid yourself of both the disturbing emotions that would accompany destructive behavior aswell as the disturbing attitudes that accompany even constructive behavior.
If you experience ordinary happiness- the type of happiness that doesn't last and never satisfies, but yet still feels good-it's the long-term result of constructive behavior done under the influence of positive emotions, such as patience and kindness.
How, then, do we understand the causal relationship between unhappiness and destructive behavior based on disturbing emotions,and the causal relationship between happiness and constructive behavior that is relatively free of disturbing emotions?