Do you really want to understand and develop virtue
even though it is not the social virtue that you know about?
Are you prepared to take the time necessary to develop at least the first steps of reflection,
which will take great time and energy and mean many sacrifices of your social and family life?
Are you prepared tu understand Dharma even though it may conflict
with all you have learned in this life of Stained Samsara?
Have your basic perplexity and doubts about Buddha Dharma been overcome?
Thus have I heard. At one time the Blessed One was living among the Kurus, at Kammasadamma, a market town of the Kuru people. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhu thus: "Monks," and they replied to him, "Venerable Sir." The Blessed One spoke as follows:
"This is the only way, monks, for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the destruction of suffering and grief, for reaching the right path, for the attainment of Nibbana, namely, the four foundations of mindfulness. What are the four?
"Herein (in this teaching) :
1. "a monk lives reflecting upon the body in the body, ardent, clearly comprehending and mindful, having overcome, in this world, covetousness and grief;
2. "he lives reflecting upon discrimination in discrimination, ardent, clearly comprehending and mindful, having overcome, in this world, covetousness and grief;
3. "he lives reflecting upon consciousness in consciousness, ardent, clearly comprehending and mindful, having overcome, in this world, covetousness and grief;
4. "he lives reflecting upon mental objects in mental objects, ardent, clearly comprehending and mindful, having overcome, in this world, covetousness and grief."