Chapter 1 - What is Buddhism all
about?
People who are interested in Buddhism know
that the Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths. Some
may think that Buddhism is about gaining merit so
that one can go to heaven.
Chapter 5 - The Structure of Life
The ultimate goal of life is the same as seeing
ultimate truth or ultimate reality which allows us
to know what is what. This is the same as entering
Nirvana and becoming Phra Arahant permanently, which
is also the end of all suffering. This is also the
state of returning to the great simplicity or
becoming what it is (Ta-tha-ta).
Chapter 7 - Refining the Diamond
The world is preparing to say good bye to the
20th century. Indeed, it has been nearly two
thousand years since the birth of Christ as well as
his work and his life-sacrifice for humanity. If he
physically returned now, he would be very shocked to
see that his life sacrifice meant very little to
people nowadays. The Christian institution is losing
its grip on society. People deny the God to whom
Christ introduced them and replace him with the God
who has the power of purchase. The spread of
consumerism and websites have rapidly destroyed good
values and traditions which have been with
individual societies for so long. The institution of
the family which used to hold society tightly
together is being ruined. Religious institutions,
which are supposed to be a tower of strength for
members of society has been challenged and shaken on
a scale that has never happened before.
Chapter 9 - From Genesis to
Mahabharata
I have no doubt in the slightest
that to be aware of the arising of thought (the
third foundation of self-awareness) is the precise
action of how not to eat the fruit from the tree of
knowledge. This is the warning of God or whoever
knew the function of the mind so well that he had to
tell people by hiding the true meaning in such
ingenious metaphors as the tree of life and the tree
of knowledge. The true hidden meaning of these two
trees has not yet been revealed properly due to the
lack of practice. The know-how is indeed the missing
link in the Christian holy book. When the know-how
is not clear, people do not understand God’s warning
about how not to eat the fruit from the wrong tree.
Consequently, we are still eating the poisonous
fruits with relish and that’s why we can never get
rid of our problems.
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