Protecting - Children and Parents
How children should treat their parents
By supporting their parents when necessary
By helping them in their business, at work, or in any other appropriate ways
By keeping the family together
By being worthy of their inheritance
By doing charitable acts in memory of departed parents and relatives
How parents should treat their children
By restraining their children from doing wrong
By encouraging them to do what is right
By having them trained in a profession
By helping or giving advice in the choice of a suitable marriage partner
By handing over their inheritance at a proper time
When children and parents treat each other in this way, the family made peaceful and secure.
Protecting – Students and Teachers
How students should treat their teachers
By showing their teachers proper respect
By attending to their needs
By personal service to them
By being eager to learn
By paying careful attention when being taught
How teachers should treat their students
By training their students to develop self-discipline
By teaching them so that they understand the lessons well
By giving them a well-balanced education
By introducing them to friends and colleagues
By helping to ensure their safety and well-being
When students and teachers treat each other in this way, places of learning made peaceful and secure.
Protecting – Husbands and Wifes
How a husband should treat his wife
By treating her with courtesy
By showing her respect
By being faithful to her
By sharing authority of the household with her
By providing her with jewellery and gifts
How a wife should treat her husband
By properly organizing the household
By being hospitable to in-laws, and treating household workers well
By being faithful to him
By helping to preserve the family wealth
By being skilful and diligent in her duties
When husbands and wives treat each other in this way, households made peaceful and secure.
Protecting – Friends and Associates
How one should treat friends and associates
By being generous and willing to share
By speaking with kind words
By being helpful
By being impartial and unbiased
By being sincere and honest
How friends and associates should treat each other
By taking care of each other when they are vulnerable
By protecting their property when they are vulnerable
By being a refuge in times of fear or danger
By not abandoning them in times of need
By respecting and showing consideration for their family
When friends and associates treat each other in this way, society made peaceful and secure.
Protecting – Employers and Employees
How employers should treat their employees
By assigning their employees work according to their abilities
By paying them adequately for their work
By looking after their medical needs
By giving them special treats
By allowing them leave and holidays
How employees should treat their employers
By arriving early for work
By staying late when necessary
By taking only what is given
By doing their job well
By upholding and spreading the good reputation of their employer
When employees and employers treat each other in this way, places of work made peaceful and secure.
Protecting – Spiritual teachers and Lay followers
How lay followers should treat their spiritual teachers
By kind actions
By kind speech
By kind thoughts
By keeping their house open to them
By providing them with material needs
How spiritual teachers should treat their lay followers
By restraining them from doing wrong
By encouraging them to do what is right
By showing them compassion
By teaching them what they do not know
By clarifying what has been taught
By showing them the way and guiding them in spiritual practice
