Buddha Teaching

| Monday, May 31, 2010

The Buddha advised us not to blindly accept anything in the Buddhist doctrine; we should accept it after careful consideration. Buddha’s aim is to show us the way to complete liberation from suffering. Nibbana is to reach the Unconditioned or Uncreated, a state beyond the scope of our ordinary untrained mind. Nibbana is not death as many have mis-understood, rather Nibbana is a natural condition (dhatu) existing throughout. It is the quenching of feverish heat of our mental clinging.

The Buddha taught his disciple to do it gradually according to the capacity of his students. Each practitioner should devote himself to the training as competently as he could, although the final goal is the same for everyone, but progress along the path depends on the effort of the individual. The Dhamma of the Buddha will lead us to Nibbana, and it will also nourish us along the way. That’s why the practitioner is considered a member of the Sangha.

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