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question about a quote

sunlightsunlight
edited December 2010 in Buddhism Basics
Hello everyone, this is my first post:D

I once red the quote "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind"
How does this work?

Comments

  • CloudCloud Veteran
    edited December 2010
    Easy. I gave the example of someone abusing a child in another thread. If you abuse a child, your karma is passed on as a seed in that child's mind; they may end up abusing their own child some day because of what happened to them.

    An evil friend will influence you in unwholesome ways, ways that will make you act unskillfully. A wise man surrounds himself with wise friends, not fools (so to speak).

    Namaste
  • JoshuaJoshua Veteran
    edited December 2010
    As I arguably planted the seed in his mind to say what he said on my thread about the child. ;)

    Some people are subtle but persistent in poisoning a person's mind, have you ever experienced those people who tell you what you ought to do, feel or how to think and you find yourself thinking "I don't know.." but then you sometimes cave and even worse, as Cloud said, as the years pass with this sort of advice, you end up passing this sort of advice on to others.

    Do you ever find you dislike qualities in your parents only to discover that you very much emulate them in adulthood?
  • CloudCloud Veteran
    edited December 2010
    valois wrote: »
    As I arguably planted the seed in his mind to say what he said on my thread about the child. ;)
    That seed was already there from what the world has shown me of child abuse and how it affects our future choices, but in its arising (my choice to use it as an example) it created more seeds, so that I may end up using that same example again and again. See? :)

    And yet, it was your karma... your post, which gave this seed a chance to grow and become my karma, my post. It's all interplay, interconnectedness, and it's not just about us; it's about everything.
  • sunlightsunlight
    edited December 2010
    I'm affraid the group of friends I hang out with are poisoness. I'm finding it hard to find new friends to hang out with, for example if I meet someone new through a current friend they probably are just as bad as them. Do you have any tips or advice? I'm 20.
  • CloudCloud Veteran
    edited December 2010
    That depends on how bad you think your friends are, and how much you feel you need friends in your life. Even if you gave up on having any friends right now because they're all bad for you, that doesn't mean you wouldn't build new friendships in the future.
  • SherabDorjeSherabDorje
    edited December 2010
    There should be plenty of Buddhist organizations in Vancouver to find new friends at.
  • sunlightsunlight
    edited December 2010
    SherabDorje wrote: »
    There should be plenty of Buddhist organizations in Vancouver to find new friends at.
    I actually don't know of any. Could anyone recomend one? Thanks for the help guys!
  • SherabDorjeSherabDorje
    edited December 2010
    Google. The Yellow Pages.
  • JoshuaJoshua Veteran
    edited December 2010
    Maybe this helps?
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