“(What I have taught) if you cling on to it, if you fondle it, if you treasure it, if you are attached to it, then you don’t understand it. The Teaching (Which I have taught) is similar to a raft, Which is to be used only to cross over and not for getting hold of “
(Lord Buddha – Majjima Nikaya)
Firstly let me wish everyone reading this blog and those around the world, a day full of peacful thoughts as that is the need of today’s world competing in a rat race towards development without peace.
Buddhism which was introduced to the world in the 5th Century BC, by Siddhartha Gauthama, a Crown Prince who gave up his throne and Kingdom for the sake of finding an answer for one question ’Why do Living Things Suffer ?’.It is after several other experimentations and sacrifices he realised the cause for it and the way to get rid of it, from then Until his death he spent the rest of the time expouding and explaining what he has found. Today what he has found is been practiced by several individuals either as a Religon and/or Philosophy. Vesak is the day when the Birth, Enlightnment (The Day he undertood the Cause) and Parinirvana of Siddhartha Gauthama popularly known as the Buddha after the Enlightnment
It is sometimes suprising and sad to see and hear certain people belonging to the so called ‘Buddhist Countries’ talk of sadness and suffering, despite the fact that they read and follow the teachings of this great person. The reason I think is the same reason that Lord Buddha himself found out for the Cause of suffering , which is none other than ‘Ignorance’.
If we make his teachings (Dhamma) our loyal friend, we could find some solution to eradicate the fetters of ignorance and in turn eradicate suffering according to the dhamma.
Below is a Song written by Dushani Perera while the Music and Vocals are by Diliup Gabadamudalige, this song has a great resemblence to what I have said above and the music is very soothing
Have a nice day!
viduruwan said,
June 25, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Hello Hasala,
After long time! Heh I thought of writing something on your blog.. Currently there are countries so called “Buddhist “Country but most of them are in middle of war or post war .You can see Barma (Myanmar) , Siam (Thailand) , Tibet all above “Labeled ” countries are in war at least they have conflicts within them. These days, there are only few people who practice practical Buddhism which Buddha taught his followers to do. Others just follow few hundred years’ old written scripts blindly just to “show off”.
Sorry for going off topic. Anyway keep write bro.
Wish you good luck
pererahasala said,
June 26, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Dear Viduruwan
Thank you for your comment and nice to hear from you after a long time
What you mentioned was true, if the buddhist countries were able to follow these valuable teachings of this great philosopher then this world would have been a nicer place.
But I feel that things are changing, especially the younger generation who witnessed War, Terror and all other atrocities have better attitudes and look at things in a more wider and a brighter perspective. After all according the Gauthama Buddha ‘Everything is Impermenant’.
Lets hope that we would see that world very soon
Thank You Once Again
viduruwan said,
June 28, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Let see Hasala,Future can only predict.Let’s keep good hope.What I believe there should be a strong foundation to have a evolution of changing minds.I can not see it for the moment.But we will see.!
