Monday, May 3, 2010

from "A Consigned Legacy from Buddhadasa Bhikkhu"

LEGACY NO.5:
The Third wish is to try to achieve mutual understanding between religions. This is a necessary task to be performed because the world must inevitably have many religions just like the many kinds of people it has. For the sake of a peaceful human co-existence, every religion needs to teach exclusively about unselfishness, with only some variations perhaps in the methods of teaching

Legacy no 4

The second wish is to try to lead the world out of the power of materialism and sensual pleasures. It should be the co-operative activity fo everybody and every religion in the world so that the world could be a truly clean, illumminating and peaceful world, staying clear of the present condition it is in.

from "A Consigned Legacy from Buddhadasa Bhikkhu"

Legacy no.3

: The first wish is to lead everybody into the heart of Buddhism so as to promote the arising of good, undeviated and fair religious practice and also in order to be able to truly respond to the Buddha's noble intention

Legacy no.2

: The tree Wishes which ought to be realised by every 'Buddhadasa' and held as the main principles in the implement ion of duties for the benefit of the world are:
1. Try to get to the heart of one's own religion
2. Try to assist in the withdrawal from the power of materialism.
3. Try to achieve mutual understanding between religions.

Legacy no.1

everybody can be a 'Buddhadasa' if only he or she is sincere about it: to be genuinely sincere in propagating the Buddhist religion by setting in example in the actual practice and proving that happiness can be actually attained untill the other people would follow suit.