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| Poster: ATLAS Reply Post Message Date: Tue Nov 18 03:16:24 2003 |
| Subject: Just as way, not a purpose |
| Post No: 1178 |
Dear Brethren, Buddha has stressed so many times that what He said, was just the finger pointing out the moon, not the moon by itself. Buddha is so compassionate that HE has taught us 84,000 ways to help us re-discovering the real ourself. Here again, the figure "84,000" is just a symbol which explains that people are so different from one another that's why, ways must be so diversified and various. Buddhism also taught us to be wide open eyed, very tolerant and extremely compassionate. That's why, all roads lead to Roma, just like people use different medicine to cure different diseases, students learn different courses to reach different levels of education, and Buddhist followers walk different paths which suit them best. We cannot say which way is the best, we could say that, which way suit every kind of people best. And above all, a real Buddhist should have unconditional and immense LOVE for everybody. Before thinking of anything, saying anything, doing anything, just think first whether we already have that unconditional and immense LOVE in our heart. With metta ATLAS |