For Dhamma's friends
Dhamma’s friends.
For some, Buddha’s Teachings can seem to be far from the present. For some, it can appear that it is not compatible for the non-Asian cultures.
Nothing of all that is true. Because what Buddha taught is nothing else but the truth of pain, and the end of the suffering.
Whatever the pain or the sorrow that touches people, it is not limited to a culture, a race, or on a social standing. The suffering touches everyone in the same way, and the pain that each person feels reflects around it, among his family and its close relations.
Buddha’s Teachings aims at putting a final term at the suffering.
In reality, like it treats a universal disease, this is a universal teaching.
It was 2500 years ago, it is today and it will tomorrow. From our birth, the conscience took root in ignorance. The word of Buddha is the single means of freeing from our ignorance. Buddha said we can live one year, or ten years, or maybe more, without physical disease. But never in our life of human, we are free from mental diseases (except arahant).
These mental diseases are impurities, they are called defilements of the mind. Which are they? Buddha’s answer in Vatthupama-Sutta :
"And what, monks, are the defilements of the mind? Covetousness and unrighteous greed are a defilement of the mind ; ill will is a defilement of the mind ; anger is a defilement of the mind ; hostility is a defilement of the mind ; denigration is a defilement of the mind ; domineering is a defilement of the mind ; envy is a defilement of the mind ; jealousy is a defilement of the mind ; hypocrisy is a defilement of the mind ; fraud is a defilement of the mind ; obstinacy is a defilement of the mind ; presumption is a defilement of the mind ; conceit is a defilement of the mind ; arrogance is a defilement of the mind ; vanity is a defilement of the mind ; negligence is a defilement of the mind. ”
Buddha’s Teaching is Dhamma. Dhamma means truth, reality, law of the nature, things …It concerns everyone.
Whoever recognizes in him the truth of the dhamma, understand what Buddha taught. Everything that he taught is related to the total and perfect liberation. He told people the way, he said to people that only themselves can go on this path.
By virtue, by concentration and attention, and by wisdom, anybody that follows the natural discipline can know peace and harmony, can plant seeds of the good deeds, and get complete freedom from the conditioning, and freedom from anger, desire, and illusion.
May all beings be free from sorrow, may all have happiness, may all know dhamma.
One link:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/index.html
