Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00255)

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--- Andrew Smith <aupanishad@msn.com> wrote:

> I would like to say for the record that among all
> the religions, churches, and philosophies I have
> been part of throughout my 59 years, none has
> impressed me as much or made me a better man than
> has the original teachings of Siddhartha Gotama, the
> Buddha, mostly from a Mahayana perspective. When I
> am at my lowest, I always fall back on reading and
> trying to practice some form of Zen or other
> Buddhist meditation. There are a lot of wonderful
> tangential things that have sprung up around the
> teachings of Buddha and His followers, but none are
> as satisfying as listening to the words of the
> Tathagata Himself as they have come down to us in
> the Pali (and Mahayana/Theravada) Canon (the
> Sutras). I have lost faith in christendom many
> times, even as I did also recently, but I have never
> doubted the Buddha, not as a god, but as the wisest
> man. I can see no future for christendom, but I can
> see no end for the necessity of the Buddha and His
> Dharma. Buddha was a realist and was truly
> compassionate in all He did--unlike the mythical
> founder of christendom. If this was to be my last
> night on earth, I would want this to be my epitaph
> in tribute to Him who crossed the sea of samsara and
> found nirvana, and told us how to at least enter the
> stream behind Him. The Bodhisattva is the most
> sublime concept ever to come from any religious or
> philosophical tradition. I hope in some small way,
> I have been a man of integrity,which is to say, a
> Bodhisattva.
> 
> Andrew W. Smith
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