Four principles of financial investment from Sithathak Buddha!

Sithathak Buddha

Once we talk about the world of finance, it seems complicated for those who do not have any background or skill – like a university course for BBA or MBA in financial management, but when taking this theory from Sithathak Buddha, explaining us in general, it does not seem difficult to understand or take longer time to learn a BBA or MBA in equivalent course at the university at all. These ideas are very simple yet meaningful for us to evidence human life or the fact of how systematical the world would work and link from one thing to another.

At that time during Sithathak Buddha's period, there was a young man living with his old and seriously sick father in a village nearby Buddha's pagoda who seemed to have not been able to be treated. From time to time, his severe sickness – because of being old – became so bad and would probably die soon, and having already known and admitted that he himself would die soon, he told his only one son four riddles before he died (1) to respect or worship once time and throw rice to the south of the earth, (2)  to the north, (3) to the west, and (4) to the east of the earth with that same activities every day morning. After his father passed away, a good son always did exactly the same activities without any consideration before following his father's riddles, that needed him to do different things for his long life journey without his father's support.      

4 principles of financial investment

One morning our wise Buddha left from his pagoda to get foods from villagers – as this is a traditional and common activities of all Buddha, having to ask for foods  from those who like to do good things – for his lunch, he deliberately walked through the man's house and saw his strange actions, then he asked "what were you doing young man?" and the man suddenly stopped his action, telling our wise Buddha all of those four riddles from his father. Having already understood the deep meaning of the riddles, he replied wisely and simply to the man, saying that, your father wanted you to invest your wealth fruitfully and divide it into four parts (1) part one of your wealth has to feed your family, (2) part two of your wealth has to keep up for your business or earning, (3) part three of your wealth has to reserve once you are sick or have urgency that requires such amount of money, and (4) part four of your wealth has to give for charity to help your society and human being. As you live in a society requiring you to struggle in your life, it is a cycle of how sustainable and hard human life is that you cannot avoid or pretend not to confront with it. Therefore, you have to invest your wealth wisely and when you are better, you are supposed to share what you have to those who are not, needing your support and help. This was your father's true meaning, asking you to take a look at that situation and think deeply. Provided that you could follow this, your life would not face debts and hard situations.

Social Investment of 4 principle of financial investment

Due to the fact that our life has to work out with living, we all will have to face debts and difficulties, so preparing and investing wealth is not easy. Once we all are better, we should look at those who also need to survive in their life, so we should do whatever we can – no matter how big or small our action is – to share and help others in term of human being.