3/22/2005

What is the Buddhahood?

What is the Buddhahood, the ultimate goal for Buddhists? It is the stage on which you can do two things; first, you love others like you love yourself, and second, your every act, voluntarily or involuntarily, gives much joy to any other living and non-living things in this universe.

Some of you would wonder on what doctrine or from what view buddhists would think it possible. It's because of the Buddhistic view that each of any living and non-living things should look different in this world, but actually they are parts of the single whole entity. In Buddhism, any living and non-living things you can see through any medium in this world are regarded as amalgams of materials in which older materials decay and are replaced with new ones continually. It follows that some pieces of your body will be useful in other living or non-living things in the future, while the other fragments may have been parts of the body of a Lion in Africa. It means we, including of all of you, belong to the one. This realization enables you to love others, living or non-living, deeply and involuntarily as you love yourself. The second advantage will come to you when you see the realization a fact, not a realization. Buddhism, in a sense, you can say, shows the ways how you see the realization a bald fact.

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