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Abstract

In the world, there were two types of persons: good and bad. The term
‘good and bad’ was referred to wholesome or unwholesome things inside themselves,
which could make involved persons good or bad. Among these two persons, the bad
were firstly said by the Buddha to pay attention in order to avoid them. Because a
person would become a bad person, who could not do anything good, if he/she
associated with that bad person. Like a painting, if a sheet of paper were stained with
black color, that painting would not be nice even with more additional colors. The
type of a person, called a bad person, was said with the word ‘Bala’ or ‘fool’ in
Buddhism. The first highest blessing, taught by the Buddha, was to avoid such a person
or a fool. That was also dissociation with a fool.