The
duties husbands have to wives:
There are five essential duties a husband should
embrace to in order to serve his wife properly and appropriately:
1. By honoring her
2. By being thoughtful, caring and well-mannered toward her
3. By being faithful and devoted to her
4. by jointly sharing authority over their possessions
5. By providing her with cosmetics, ornaments, perfumes, etc.
The
duties wives have to husbands:
There are five essential duties a wife should embrace
to in order to serve her husband properly and appropriately:
- She
should look after the house in an orderly, clean and efficient manner
- She
should be welcoming, hospitable and helpful to friends and relations of
both hers and his
- She
should be faithful and devoted to him
- She
should take good care of the things belonging to her home
- She
should be skillful, attentive and productive in taking care of her duties
The 6 ways monks care for lay people:
- They
endeavor to hold people back from unskillful activities
- They
encourage them to do good
- They
send them loving-kindness
- They
teach them skillful and profound things they have never heard before
- They
correct and clarify their thinking
- They
point the way to reined levels of Happiness