1. There are causes for all human suffering, and there is a way by which they may be ended, because everything in the world is the result of a vast concurrence of causes and conditions, and everything disappears as these causes and conditions change and pass away.

Causation
The Teaching of Buddha
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Buddhist Promoting Foundation),
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Water is round in a round receptacle and square in a square one, but water itself has no particular shape. People often forget this fact.

People see this good and that bad, they like this and dislike that, and they discriminate existence from non-existence; and then, being caught in these entanglements and becoming attached to them, they suffer.

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Indeed, it is very difficult to understand the world as it is, for, although it seems true, it is not, and, although it seems false, it is not. Ignorant people can not know the truth concerning the world.

Buddha alone truly and fully knows the world as it is and He never says that it is true or false, or good or evil. He simply protrays the world ( Read more... )

Whether Buddha appears or disappears, Buddhahood always remains the same. Knowing this principle, one must keep to the path of Enlightenment and attain Perfect Wisdom, undisturbed by the apparent changes in the image of Buddha, in the condition of the world, or in the fluctuations fo human thought.

The Form of Buddha and his Virtues
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Dharma-kaya is the substance of the Dharma; that is, it is the substance of Truth itself. In the aspects of Essence, Buddha has no shape or color, and since Buddha has no shape and color, He comes from nowhere and there is nowhere for Him to go. Like the blue sky, He arches over everything, and since He is all things, He lacks nothing.

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"A man's mind may make him a Buddha,
or it may make him a beast.
Misled by error, one becomes a demon;
enlightened, one becomes a Buddha.
Therefore, control your mind
and do not let it deviate from the right path."

Shakyamuni Buddha
The Teaching of Buddha
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Buddhist Promoting Foundation),
Toppan Printing Co. (S) Pte. Ltd., 1990
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"He who goeth to battle, O Simha, even though it be in a righteous cause, must be prepared to be slain by his enemies, for that is the destiny of warriors; and should his fate overtake him he has no reason for complaint.

"But he who is victorious should remember the instability of earthly thing. His success may be great, but be it ever ( Read more... )

4. There is an old story of a man who fell into a drunken sleep. His friend stayed by him as long as he could but, being compelled to go and fearing that he might be in want, the friend hid a jewel in the drunken man's garment. When the drunken man recovered, not knowing that his friend had hid a jewel in his garment, he wandered about ( Read more... )

3. The world has no substance of its own. It is simply a vast concordance of causes and conditions that have had their origin, solely and exclusively, in the activities of the mind that has been stimulated by ignorance, false imagination, desires and infatuations. It is not something external about which the mind has false conceptions; it has no ( Read more... )

"Where is thy self" asked Buddha. And when Kutadanta mande no reply, he continued: "Thy self to which thou cleavest is a constant change. Years ago thou wast a small babe; then, thou wast a boy; then a youth; and now, thou art a man. Is there any identity of the babe and the man? There is an identity in a certain sense only. Indeed there is more ( Read more... )