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During class you should start your assignment for Friday. Make sure you post at least one of your 150+ word essays by the end of class today. If you didn't bring your Teachings of the Buddha, you can find the beginning of this book at http://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Buddha-Jack-Kornfield/dp/1570621241
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Pg.44-45
I think this story was interesting when it talks about how you can see old people you can see people who is sick, you can see people who is dying or in pain. First thought what came in my mind was the story of Buddha what you told us the class. When the prince where protected of the “real word”. He had never seen anything bad in life. He did not have any idea about that when you will be older your skin will change and you will be suffer to the death. The story tells us that we can not escape what will happen we can not be protect of everything bad in the world. Life is suffering. That is one of the first teachings of Buddhism. That is not living in the world is pretending to live. The Buddha is teaching us that we need to see the world and learn and help. Everybody will do it in their own way.
pg 65
The first words: to Love Yourself is important. When you start to build you own religion you need to know yourself and you need to accept yourself as you are. It is today, tomorrow and always. The same in every religion it is not one day thing it is a life style. The poem talks about that you are the one who can do the changes in your life. There is no one higher than you. The thing is to find yourself and your master. When you get to that point then your work is to teach other people. No one can teach anyone before you know it by yourself. You are your master no one else. It seems to me that it makes sense also in our religion. How could we understand God if we don’t even understand ourselves. For someone maybe God helps to find yourself for other maybe it is a person but no matter who it is or what it is everybody need to find it.
Pg 46-47 “Few cross over the river”
Because the Buddha was born and raised a Hindu and only later did he reach the status of Buddha, Sidartha had quite a bit of Hinduism influence in his own path to enlightenment. Both paths, for example, demand severance from material wants in order to reach enlightenment, whether it be moksha or nirvana. As Buddha taught, “Few cross over the river./ Most are stranded on this side….But the wise person, following the way,/ Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. The river is crossing the line of being mere human into accepting and recognizing everything past and present, the higher eternity. If one is “Free from desire,/ Free from possessions…In this world the wise person/ Becomes themself a light,/ Pure, shining, free. In order to reach nirvana in Buddhism, one must have complete separation with material possessions and only then will they “become…a light”. Reaching the light is ultimately reaching eternity and only then does someone become “free”. By releasing everything, does one have the freedom from death, from mortality. This is a lot like Hinduism in that material possessions are considered unwelcoming on the journey to moksha. One major difference that actually sets Buddhism apart is the fact that some buddhas who reach enlightenment can return to earth in order to teach. In Hinduism the path is laid down by the Gods. However in Buddhism, there are no gods, so the path is laid down by the Buddha and proven by those that follow him. It is proven that others can reach enlightenment at one point in their many lives, whereas in Hinduism, one doesn’t know because it has so rarely, if ever happened. By being able to return to the world, the buddhas can prove and teach to others about how to follow the path to nirvana. It makes nirvana that much more tangible, something that one doesn’t have to just have faith in, but something that actually exists. By returning to earth to teach, the buddhas create a place that not only exists but is accessible.
Page 4
“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart”
Our interpretations of the world around us is in fact our reality. Reality is less of what is real and more of what is understood to be real than anything else. “We are what we think”. There is no mistaking that “what we think” is what we know and what we know is our own personal reality. Reality, being so transient as it is, can be as flexible as your mind can accomplish. There is no reason to feel that your reality has a set course of dismal happenings other than you expect that to happen. Buddha brings about this point eloquently in the next stanza when he says “Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable”. The only reality is that which we create in our minds. Common experience is also generally labeled as reality, in that if more than one person experiences an event, it is generally counted as truly happening. It is often difficult to accept that something has happened if only one person says it has or that it will, but that is the understanding one must have in order to truly and fully follow the way of Buddhism.
“We are what we think.”-page 4
I spent my elementary school years learning among the classrooms of the Bright School. That time now seems far away and my memories have piecemeal become somewhat hazy, but strangely, though I have forgotten much, I will never forget the wise words of our cafeteria milk cartons. Next to a sly fox on the back of the jug the text foretold: “you are what you eat.” I laughed the first couple times I noticed the quote, but to this day, I don’t put anything into my mouth without first thinking “I am what I eat.” Similarly, religion was created to appease a kind of spiritual hunger. Through our thoughts and actions toward the glory of God, we are feeding our souls, and as too much junk food can harm the body, too many foul thoughts can destroy our spiritual peace. The quote from the Dhammapada in the Teachings of the Buddha, elegantly describes the necessity in keeping one’s thoughts and speech positive. With a repetitive quality and metaphors like the “shadow” that follows you as your thoughts do and the “wheels” that follow the ox cart, the message is clear and simple. You are what you think.
and i just saw that I commented on the same thing as Helen, but I hope because they're like five min apart, it will be ok.
"Wakefulness is the way to life.
The fool sleeps
As if he were already dead,
But the master is awake
And he lives forever."
Something about these first lines really struck me. "The fool sleeps as if he were already dead...” reminds me of something somewhat inspiring a friend said.”You can either give a s*** or give up, but I'm not going to just lay down and die."
I think the underlying message in this passage is awareness. You need to be aware of your life and your surroundings. You can't sit back and watch your life pass you by. You have to participate, be a part of who you are; become yourself. "The master is awake" meaning the master of wakefulness and awareness, one who lives his life to the fullest. "..And he lives forever." Don't lie down and die, get out, be who you are.
This was done by Casey.
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Page 19
“Look how he abused me and beat me, How he threw me down and robbed me.” Live with such thoughts and you live in hate…Abandon such thoughts and live in love.
In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
For me this passage embodies the idea of “turning the other cheek”. It teaches us not to give easily into anger, and that allowing ourselves to quarrel incessantly will only cause even more suffering and bitterness. I believe in the line “hate never yet dispelled hate,” the Buddha is showing that striking back against an injustice in a violent or hate-filled way will never solve any problems. It is refuting the ideas of “an eye for an eye”. This seems interesting to me because I feel that it echoes Ahimsa, and it is interesting to see the Hindu principles that were carried over. He asserts that love is the only answer for the problems and quarrels within the world, and that this is a very central idea in Buddhism, even claiming it to be ancient and inexhaustible law. Reference to the idea of the inconstancies of the world and the fact that our time in this current life is very limited, and the Buddha asks how we believe we have time to quarrel. Since we are living in maya, there is very little facing us that is worth fighting about, and we should make time to live in peace and love and focus on the eight fold path, which instructs in many ways for us to live kindly and thoughtfully.
p.2
Colleges today tell us, students, that if we want to be accepted, we need to “think out side of the box”, to “be different”, to “stand out in a crowd” or to “not be boring”. In this passage, it talks about how we need to strip the colored “attachments” from our minds and let our mind “be free from the attachments that visit”. I know it is saying that we need to free our minds from worldly things such as money or work or college, but this also says to me that we should become boring or with out color, just all the same yellow
hued light. That is a completely different statement from what we hear everyday. Then it also goes to say that the one who is that boring light bulb is the one that develops and improves. It’s not the person who “stands out in a crowd” who fosters, but the person who thought inside the box. That just blows my mind.
p. 4 “We are what we think”
This poem relates back to the concept of Maya and how the world is an illusion to us. The Buddha makes it one of the foremost of the ideas in his teachings that we should resist temptations as he did under the Bodhi tree. Maya, the world as we currently know it is a series of temptations. When we think of these temptations, or when we think bad thoughts, we are closing our minds and not seeing the reality of the world, we are merely seeing our perception of the world. This is what the Buddha teaches us in his philosophy that life is a revolving wheel. Our consciousness will continue to be reborn until it reaches enlightenment. Unless we see past Maya “trouble will follow you/As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.”
One thing I found interesting about this poem was the Buddha’s use of the metaphor of the wheel. The Buddha’s eight-fold path is represented by a wheel, and it is used as a metaphor for Maya. His motive must have been to say that if you are blinded by Maya, the path to enlightenment is waiting, accessible, right behind you for whenever you realize that you wish to seek it.
pg 10:
“See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?”
-These lines have the same idea than Christianity: love others like you love yourself and treat others the way you want them to treat you. All religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and Buddhism have “punishments” for people who hurt other people. For example: reborn as a bug, goes to hell or something like that. These lines also remind me about Hinduism because we all are god and we are the truth. So if we are “the same” why we should hurt each other. The idea is that we are equal but this view doesn’t fit in Hinduism’s picture because they have a caste system. This advice: treat other people the way you want them to treat you is not only religiously splendid but it is also a great instruction of life.
Yeah... I didn't check the comment updates as I was writing so I hope that being the third blog post on page 4 is okay.
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.”
I thought these lines where interesting because it shows that Buddhists care a great deal about what goes on in peoples minds. These lines tell us that we create the world we live in by our thoughts and what goes on in our heads. I like this idea because it gives us (people) the power to create our surroundings. If we have good and peaceful thoughts then the world we live in will be good and our life will be good. But if we have bad thoughts and an unjust mind then we create a world of problems and trouble. It gives the power to the people to decide what happens in their lives. These lines also caught my attention because they relate to Christianity. In Christianity you always hear the bible talking about your “actions,” and how god judges you upon your actions. From these lines about Buddhism I am feeling that Buddhists care just as much about your thoughts as your actions in the world.
“Put away all hindrances, let your mind full of love pervade one quarter of the world, and so too the second quarter, and so the third, and so the fourth.” (9)
I found it interesting that in this passage, the Buddha implies that love comes from the mind, and not the heart or the soul. In Buddhism, it is thought that the mind controls everything: “All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world” (4). The mind makes us, forms the world, and creates the universe. The passage on page 9 essentially entails that we humans have control over our emotions, and that we can fill the world with love and happiness if we put our minds to it. On page 10, the Buddha says, “For your brother is like you. He wants to be happy.” Basically everyone wants to be happy, and the only way to make everyone happy is to be selfless, look out for the well-being of others, and not harm one another. The Buddha says everyone should lead their life “as a mother watches over her child, willing to risk her own life to protect her only child…” (7). Each human being should be selfless and “cherish all living beings, suffusing the whole world with unobstructed loving kindness.”
Pg. 21-22
The story on these pages is a great metaphor for Buddhism. The story is a easy way to look at the core of the “Religion”. Throughout life, we as humans are worried about money, women or men, materials, possessions; we are distracted from the real world. My interpretation is this story is saying that sometimes we get too attached to things that aren’t important. Buddhism is a very passive religion; Buddhists have a unbelievable control of their mind and body. This story is interesting because at the end of it, everyone destroys the castles they made, so why would you care so much about something that in the end won’t matter.
I found the passage on page 46-47 to be interesting. The passage tells how if you change your life, it is for the better. “Few cross the river” states that not everyone crosses over to the other side, to the side of a better life. But the few that are wise that do cross live a more enjoyable life. Going to the other side puts one free of things, it’s all about you. You are free of attachments. You now follow your heart and not the influence of the crowd. “In this world the wise person becomes themselves a light,” this line sums up what happens. You become a light to the world when do things with your heart. Crossing the river you do things for the better of the world, not just for yourself.
page 10
“He who seeks happiness
By hurting those who seek happiness
Will never find happiness.”
By stating this, the Buddha has very simply spoken strong points not only in Buddhism but in almost every religion as well as basic morals and values. For Christianity (and other religions), it’s simply restatement of the “golden rule,” but from a more American standpoint, it is a phrase taught to almost every single human when they’re young. Everyone is taught to be nice to others, to help others, to share with others, and though one is scolded when they’re young for bullying and stealing, these reactions and behaviors usually translate to adulthood, and it is those who had tendencies to harm the calm, nice children who are greedier with money and material items when they’re older. This also could have a connection with psychoanalysis (Freud’s idea of money). The point is, though this simple thought is instilled in us at a young age, no matter what culture a person is in, this sense of happiness and lack of greed is hard to fully achieve throughout life.
“Master your senses, What you taste and smell, What you see, What you hear. In all things be a Master of what you do, and say, and think. BE FREE. Are you quiet? Calm your body. Calm your mind. By your own efforts Waken yourself, Watch yourself, And live Joyfully.”
Because the mind is the most influential part of our life, the proper mindset leads to the way we can view the outside world. By mastering our mind, we can control what emotions we feel, as well as how we take conflicts that arise in our lives. With control over our mind, we can learn to avoid sadness by focusing on the good around us. In all aspects of life, we should learn to be the master of our own actions, such as control what we say, do, but most importantly, think. Buddhism teaches to detach ourselves from the world because it is a place of sorrow, illusion, and distortion. By doing so we can avoid some suffering. This does not mean we should detach ourselves from the outside world completely; rather we should learn to accept sorrow and aim for happiness. In training our mind to control the way we perceive our lives, we can find true happiness.
pg.5 "your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts"
I think this quote explains human nature. We as humans all have high expectations for ourselves. Be it in sport, or school, or work, we expect a lot. Sometimes our high expectations cause us to lose sight of the good things we are achieving. In a basketball since, if I have an expectation to score 45 points but really I only get 5 and we still win the game, I should be happy. If someone causes the lack of meeting those high expectations to make them forget the fact that they won the game it hurts society. You are harder on yourself than any single critic can be. The critic can write something down and be done. If you are down on yourself, you live with that failure and carry the burden of your own self. The passage continues to say if we can control the expectations of our own self, we will learn the most from our own experiences. No one can teach the experience. You yourself have to go through it.
how happy he is!
"Unattached to speculations, views and sense desires, with clear vision, such a person will never be reborn in the cycles of suffering."
I dont have my book so i got this from amazon. This line reminds me of Hinduism and their idea of letting go of all things. You have to become unattached to things in order to find true peace. Buddhism has the same idea in that if you let go and not worry about what other people think, view, or desire you wont suffer. We drive ourselves crazy trying to please other people and worrying about what they think and how they see us. This is the ultimate goal, to become free of attachments.
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"In this world / Hate never yet dispelled hate. / Only love dispels hate. / This is the law, / Ancient and inexorable. / You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?" (19)
Here the buddha teaches that hatred in response to hatred does nothing but fuel hatred between all parties involved, indefinitely. Instead, compassion should be used to combat hate, as it tends to extinguish hate like water thrown onto a fire. This philosophy is reflected in Gandhi's nonviolent resistance movement, as the British eventually had to leave India because their nation could not bear to oppress a people that would not fight back. Buddha also suggests that quarreling is inherently self-destructive because all things in the universe are connected, and striking another person is like striking an image of oneself. To dwell on hate is pointless and accomplishes nothing positive. The only way to take the high path is to be able to move past hate and replace it with love.
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.”
This line from the Teachings of the Buddha captures the essence of the Buddha’s philosophy on life. We live life with love for everyone and follow the eight fold path and when this has been mastered, we reach enlightenment, which is the higher power or God in a since. It is often said that we cannot be happy in life without loving ourselves, and this quote is basically saying the same thing. If we let our thoughts become negative and begin to have a negative outlook in one aspect of our life, eventually that is going to spread to other parts and it becomes a reluctant domino effect. If we can control our own thoughts to stay positive however, and are able to see the good in everything, no matter if we previously considered them our worst enemy, we become much stronger and resilient to negative forces. The more good things we are able to see in the bad, the better we become, and therefore we continue to grow closer to enlightenment.
Pg. 35
The story of the poisoned arrow from the Majihima Nakaya offers a simple, yet clear metaphor to describe the philosophy of Buddhism. A man wounded by an arrow wants to find out the “caste, the age, the occupation, the birthplace and the motivation,” of the person who wounded him before the arrow is removed; however, before he can accomplish this, he will die from the wound. Similarly, if someone asks Buddha to teach “all the multiform truths of the world,” they will die before he explains it all. This metaphor shows that some questions should remain unanswered, especially if seeking the answers lead you no closer to the truth of experience. Buddhism does not focus on worshipping a god. They choose to not argue over questions that cannot be answered and instead choose to find truth through experience. As Mr. Gawrys said, “the point of Buddhism is not to explain truth but to take you to the truth.”
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"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother." (page 4)
I think it is very interesting on how this passage places so much emphasis on one’s own inner self. The potential contamination of one's thoughts is labeled just as harmful as a physical attack from an enemy. The mind and the self are represented as sort of a challenge in this passage as well. Most people take for granted that they control and have power over their own thoughts, but this passage suggests that the "mastery" of thoughts is required to help one’s self. And like stated before, the self is so important that it can even surpass the guidance of a parent. Training and guarding one’s mind seems to provide more protection than any other thing in the material world. I just thought this was really unique because so many religions put emphasis on an external being, yet this one focuses on the inner being. It really demonstrates the lack of higher power in exchange for awareness and respect of the self.
p. 7 “All living beings, whether weak or strong, tall, stout, average or short, seen or unseen, near or distant, born or to be born, may they all be happy.”
I think this passage explains the core of Buddhism. Anyone can be a Buddha. All it takes is practice and dedication to the path of enlightenment. This idea is so different from any Christian idea where the no one can be treated equal to God, and no one can even become close to understanding how great and magnificent he is. In Buddhism, everyone has the chance of becoming a Buddha. Everyone can become the most enlightened, knowledgeable person there is. It reminds me of the Dr. Seuss quote, “a person’s a person no matter how small”. We are all people, and we should all have the same opportunities. Buddhism expresses an equality and unity among people from every race and caste. Even if someone doesn’t believe in the Buddhist religion, he could still potentially become a Buddha. “may they all be happy” expresses the genuine belief that Buddhism is the path to enlightenment and it alone is the path to happiness.
Page 3 "A person of wisdom should be truthful, blah-di-blah dododo."
This passage basically says that a person who has any sort of advantage over his peers has more potential to be harmful to those around him because of his advantage, and because of this fact, people who have an advantage have a greater responsibility to help those around them. Rather than using your wisdom to get what you want or show off, you should use your power to help other people get to your position. The logical conclusion to this teaching would be that, eventually, every able person will be wise, which will in turn lead to every person being functionally stupid, renewing the cycle, which seems kind of like a waste of time to me.
If life is an illusion, then wise people should be spending their time untangling the complexity in the world enough to where the average person doesn't have to focus on the illusion of life, so that they can focus on ridding themselves of desire and doing their duty, rather than going on an endless quest for wisdom and knowledge. That’s what I think, anyhow.
Page 10:
“All being tremble before violence.
All fear death.
All love life
See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?”
These two stanzas embody the meaning of Buddha’s universal compassion. In Buddhism, it is believed that anyone can become enlightened or awake—there is no god, all men are equal; thus, Buddha is saying that we are all the same, even though we may appear different, we all have human tendencies that make us equal. When you hurt someone else, you hurt yourself. To reach enlightenment, one must understand this idea and realize that humans are one in the same. “All being tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life,” Buddha makes clear that your enemy fears the same things that you do, and wants the same things that you want: happiness—everyone does. So why would you hurt someone that wants the same thing that you do? You should love everyone like you love yourself; once we make peace with ourselves, we can make peace with our brothers, resulting in universal compassion.
Pg. 48-52
This passage tells the story of a woman who's son has recently died. She is so overcome with grief and feelings of abandonment that she takes her dead son's body to different houses asking for medicine for her son. At first, everyone is laughing at her, but then, someone tells her to take her son to the "Sage of the Ten Forces and ask him for medicine. When she does this, the Buddha tells her to go to every house in the village and get a mustard seed from every house where no one has ever died. When she does this, she realizes she is not alone and that everyone eventually dies and everything is impermanent. I really liked this story because so many people have a hard time accepting the death of a loved one because they are still attached to this world and the here and now rather than realizing that death is not the end; and that goes for almost any religion. I also liked this story because of how the Buddha handled the woman. One of the things that the Buddha first saw that caused him to leave his palace was death. That is when he learned that everyone dies and experiences death. I thought he did a good job of making her see that she was not alone.
“But evening came; it was getting dark and they all thought they ought to be getting home. No one now cared what became of his castle.”
Pages 21-22
The story of the children and their sandcastles is clearly a metaphor for life. Like the children, during the day of our lives we cling to our earthly possessions and what we make of our physical surroundings. We are desirous and selfish, concerned only with our own lot to the point that we formulate mortal versions of justice and value the wrongs done to property over the cost of harming another human being. Yet ultimately, we are each called home – to death, to rebirth, to, if we obtain it, enlightenment. Our efforts are as futile as those of the children protecting their sandcastles if we seek to make monuments outside of ourselves in our lives. We may as well, like the Buddha, leave our earthly possessions during our lifetime, crush our sandcastles back into the sand, and focus instead on returning to the ideal home at the end of the day.
p.44-45
This passage seems very interesting to me because it talks about some of the major aspects of life that are inevitable. For example, it states that death is something no one can escape. It also says the same thing about corruption. No matter what someone does or how pure they are, there are always parts of life that cannot be excluded. The part about disease makes me think back to Siddhartha Gautama’s learning of death, old age, and sickness. I know his parents wanted him sheltered so he would be a great ruler, but did they never think he would become sick or old or see death as a king? He would surely be a warrior and fight battles which are surrounded by death. I’m pretty sure this passage is making that connection to Siddhartha because it speaks of old age, sickness, and death, and it describes how difficult it would be to avoid confrontation with these three things in life. I’m a little confused on the part about the monk watching the bubbles on the Ganges, but I suppose it could be a comparison to how empty life could be with no emotions.
The story in which the man approached the Blessed One asking for definitive answers is a prime example of what Buddhism does not represent. The man said he would practice the religion if he were allowed to have all of his philosophical questions answered first. This idea of discovering the world before truly preparing for it is the complete antithesis of Buddhist ideals. In Buddhism, discovery is maintained after the practices have taken their toll; not the other way around. The Blessed One uses the example of a man being shot with an arrow. This man wouldn’t ask multiple questions about who shot him. He would ask to be tended to and then maybe after he healed he would begin wondering who was responsible. When I broke my arm, and the nurses repeatedly asked for my name and social security number, all I could hope for was that I would be put to sleep as soon as possible and learn about my injury after the surgery. This story represents the simple notion that we can only be enlightened after we have taken a path full of practice to philosophical discovery.
pg 65
“Love yourself and be awake—
Today, tomorrow, always.
First establish yourself in the way,
Then teach others,
And so defeat sorrow.
to straighten the crooked
you must first do a harder thing—
Straighten yourself.”
I have been told many times that you must love yourself to love someone else. There is no way to have enough confidence to love someone if you do not have the ability to love yourself. Having a friend means being a friend. By following the way, it is clear that the enlightenment allows a person to show others the way. In Buddhism, not fully understanding the path that you follow is completely acceptable and in fact expected. It is not a path to a determinate goal that a Buddhist can expect, but rather a path to find what it is we are all searching for, nirvana. This path can be followed by anyone, but only those who have reached nirvana can lead others. This seemingly impossible cycle of unknowing trust down a path towards something no one but those who have reached the end can understand is very uncomfortable for a person of western religion. The ideas presented in these few lines express the ease with which Buddhists can follow their path and know with full confidence that they are on the path to what it is they do not know that they seek.
page6
The lines explain the Right Actions according to Noble Eight Path. The first sentence talks about the right speech. People should be mindful of others when talking. Listening is more important than talking. The second talks about contentment. Harmony can make everyone happy. Human beings have to support not only each other but also other living things. This line touches me because I just read Ishmael, which talks about how humans are not mindful about other creatures. The third line talks about stealing. Killing other creatures are stealing their life. I can draw this sentence forth to the concept of vegetarianism. The forth sentence says about generosity, in other words, how to be lovingkind to everyone. Jesus had similar idea, which we call agape. Buddhism is the most peaceful religion in the world in both concept and exercise and Eight noble paths makes Buddhism to be the peaceful religion.
pg.4
"How can a troubled mind understand the way?"
This stood out to me because i have talked about this one line many of times with my parents and friends. Some people think that if you are born in maybe a "Ghetto" that you are atomatically going to do bad things.This passage doesnt always seem to be true. People with trouble minds sometimes learn from these mistakes and become better people because of this. It is also true that someone who has grown up in a bad place only seems to know wrong and how to survive wheather its the right or wrong way.Sometimes you have to make mistakes to learn the right way to go. A person from a ghetto has to experience things to understand that they are not on the right track and in some cases they fix the mistake.So this passage just dont seem to be false or true. It just depends on what kind of person.
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