Self Control – The first step to a Perfect Consciousness

To reach spirits – what’s the first step of Self Control?

To clean out all of the negative aspects of your life.

Buddha teaches that trying to live to reach spirits without eliminating all the negative aspects of your life, would be like building a house with no foundation.

However, you cannot just stop all the negative habits or actions. You still need to build up good habits in your life too.

Someone that has given up drinking could not just give up drinking because they think it’s bad. They have to have a clear understanding of how it effects their life from all angles, and observe from all angles why it is bad and why they do it.

He used this observing power to see the whole picture to get rid of the negative aspects. So he used a good spiritual power to get rid of a negative aspects. So you do have to build good abilities, to eliminate your negative parts.