1. The philosophy of karma: Our happiness and our misery depends on our own karma.
'pain is inevitable, but suffering is not'
All persons are made up of their thoughts. Thaoughts lead to action. Action leads to habit, habit builds up charecter which in turn shapes out personality.
In other words, it can also be said that if we harness good thoughts while doing any karma(actions), then, it will lead us to happiness, otherwise, it will lead us to despair. And there is no escaping to this law.
If we sin, then we shall suffer. If we do good, then we shall rejoice.
2. The essence of all living beings is same. We can find ourselves in others, and other can find themselves in us. The truth is that we are all same and very much alike to each other. Hurting others is like hurting ourselves and loving others is like loving ourselves.
3. The ideal of truth: Lord buddha teaches us that difficulties are best resolved by the knowledge of truth. And how is truth to be found? It is not found by merely beleiving in what has been said/practiced for long as age old practices have proven to be false in the past, it is not found by merely following the holy texts, as on many occassions the holy texts have been found to be somawhat unholy, it can not be found just by listening to great paople and sages. Actually the holy books, the traditions, the sages are just help to us, the path of truth must be travelled by ourselves alone, only then by doing logic and by direct and indirect perceptions can we find out the truth.
'pain is inevitable, but suffering is not'
All persons are made up of their thoughts. Thaoughts lead to action. Action leads to habit, habit builds up charecter which in turn shapes out personality.
In other words, it can also be said that if we harness good thoughts while doing any karma(actions), then, it will lead us to happiness, otherwise, it will lead us to despair. And there is no escaping to this law.
If we sin, then we shall suffer. If we do good, then we shall rejoice.
2. The essence of all living beings is same. We can find ourselves in others, and other can find themselves in us. The truth is that we are all same and very much alike to each other. Hurting others is like hurting ourselves and loving others is like loving ourselves.
3. The ideal of truth: Lord buddha teaches us that difficulties are best resolved by the knowledge of truth. And how is truth to be found? It is not found by merely beleiving in what has been said/practiced for long as age old practices have proven to be false in the past, it is not found by merely following the holy texts, as on many occassions the holy texts have been found to be somawhat unholy, it can not be found just by listening to great paople and sages. Actually the holy books, the traditions, the sages are just help to us, the path of truth must be travelled by ourselves alone, only then by doing logic and by direct and indirect perceptions can we find out the truth.
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