I agree. Buddhism is not a superstitious religion or a beleif system. On the
other hand, the dhamma is "ehipassiko"-- come and see.

Rajendra Jadhao

----- Original Message -----
From: "TAN BEE EAN" <morbel_tns@...>
To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Pali] Re:Introduce myself


> Hello,
> Great to hear that you are interested in Buddhism. Buddhism is not a
supertiscious religion. Buddha taught us the way to free from rebirth and
sufferring. The cause of rebirth is due to ignorance, craving and clinging.
>
> Buddha taught us to do offerrings, keep precepts and practice meditation.
These are the three main things that we need to practice inorder to be free
from rebirth.
>
> You can go to Buddhist Missionary Society at Brickfried, KL. to learn the
teaching of Buddha. I will try to get the address for you to visit a place
at Kajang where monks are practicing meditation.
>
> From.
> R.A
>
>
>
> Sukhdev Singh <sukh2val@...> wrote:
>
> Respected members of this forum,
>
> My name is Sukhdev Singh, male aged 44, living in
> Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I learnt about this forum
> through the Theravada-my (yahoo group) forum. I am
> very intersted to learn Pali.
>
> I am new in the Dhamma, about just over three months.
> No one introduced it to me. I just happened to come
> across some Buddhist literature while trying to seek
> some facts of life by studying my native religion,
> Sikhism, as well as some western philosophy.
>
> I think that it was the shockingly intelectual and
> empirical nature of the Buddha's methods and
> viewpoints that hooked me.
>
> Mentally, I have already rejected almost everything
> about my native religion, Sikhism. It simply doesn't
> answer all the questions. All it tells you to do is
> to be more obedient and more devoted to the "Guru".
> To do that, you have to stop asking questions and put
> more effort into devotion, something I got extrememly
> tired of doing.
>
> Just these three months of reading of the Buddha's
> methods and viewpoints has taught me more about life
> than all the Sikhism (or even philosophy) I have ever
> studied and all the devotional practices that I have
> ever carried out.
>
> Praise be to The Enlightened One
> Praise be to The Path to Enlightenment
> Praise be to The Community of The Enlightened
>
> Thank you
>
> Sukhdev Singh
> Kuala Lumpur
> Malaysia
>
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