Dear Yong Peng,
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Op 20-jun-2010, om 1:49 heeft Ong Yong Peng het volgende geschreven:

> Ron's List: Understanding misconceptions of Buddhism

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N: These are just some personal thoughts about misconceptions.
I think I would avoid labeling as christian, evangelical, etc. I
would rather explain that the Buddha taught about everything that is
real, real for everybody.

I quote from my "The Buddha's Path", the intro:

< The Buddha taught about everything which is real and which can be
experienced in daily life. He taught about seeing and hearing, about
all that can be experienced through the senses. He taught that on
account of what is experienced through the senses there is
attachment, aversion and ignorance. We are ignorant most of the time
of the phenomena occurring in daily life. However, even when we only
begin to develop understanding we can verify the truth of what the
Buddha taught. Seeing, hearing, attachment, anger, generosity and
kindness are real for everybody. There is no need to label what is
true for everybody as �Buddhism�. When we begin to investigate what
the Buddha taught there will gradually be the elimination of
ignorance about ourselves and the world around us.
We read in the Kindred Sayings (IV, Kindred Sayings on Sense, The
Third Fifty, Chapter I, �111, Understanding):

By not comprehending, by not understanding, without detaching himself
from, without abandoning the eye, one is incapable of the destruction
of suffering. By not comprehending�the ear�nose�tongue�body�mind�one
is incapable of the destruction of suffering.
But by comprehending, by understanding, by detaching himself from, by
abandoning the eye�nose�tongue�body�mind�one is capable of the
destruction of suffering.

In the following sutta we read that for the destruction of suffering,
colours, sounds, scents, savours, tangible objects and mind-states
have to be understood. This is the way leading to the end of
suffering. The Buddha taught about realities for the sake of our
welfare and happiness. >

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Nina.





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