Humility In The Practice
by Lisa Goddard
This week we are exploring humility in practice. Being Humble. Humility doesn't get talked about so much in Buddhism, I haven’t seen any teaching on humility. But iI think it's fair to say that it’s in Buddhist culture. Humility is held up strongly. In one of the most famous discourses of the Buddha, the Metta Sutta, his discourse on loving kindness. It begins this way, “One skilled in the good, should be capable and upright, straightforward and easy to speak to, gentle and not proud, contented and easily supported, living with few duties, wise and calm, not arrogant, and without greed for supporters, and should not do the least thing that the wise would criticize.” So this really illustrates ethics, how do we have ethical nature? How to cultivate the character of someone who would be conventionally called humble?
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