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Aim and Objectives
This website is about the Laws of the nature, precisely, spritual laws of the nature, discovered by the Buddha. Dhamma-dana,
the gift of the noble teachings, is said by the Buddha to excel all other gifts (Dhammapada, 354). Those who expound His teachings — monks who preach
sermons or recite from the Tipitaka, teachers of meditation — frequently share the Truth, thus practicing the highest kind of generosity.
This website does not talk about the physical laws of the nature, for example, the gravety of the earth or speed of the light or properties of genes.
Who should view this website?
This website is aimed to those who are already interested in Buddhism or descendent of Buddhist ancestors born and brought up in Western countries.
This website is not targeted to convert anyone to Buddhism as there is no conversion in Buddhism. The teaching of a Buddha is not for everybody, who understands will take it
and who do not will miss out, wandering in samsara cycle of life, count less existences, reborn again and again in thirty one planes,
most likely lower than human planes, because it is extremely difficult to gain human life and above of human spear.
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Someone asked Buddha, “Where human reappear (reborn) when they die?” Buddha said, “Pick some soil from the ground and put it on your nail of
your thumb. Now, compare this with the whole earth. The soil on the nail of thumb is a tiny portion of the
earth. Human who gain happy life after they die
are very tiny portion.”Buddha gave this example to show how tiny portion of human gain happy life after they die. Buddha also gave an example how short a
human life is at that time, hundred years human life span. But Buddha said a human can live up to one hundred and sixty years at that time, two thousand five
hundred ago. It was recorded in Buddhist scriptures that some monks lived one hundred and sixty years two thousand five hundred years ago. A Buddha can only appear
when human life span is between one hundred thousands and one hundred years and the trend is decreasing.
Why?
Buddha said, "When you throw a stone into a pond you see bubbles appear and bust. Human life is that short, length
of time bubbles exist." Why Buddha gave that example? A human life is so short compare to the countless existences wandering in samsara. Only when a
Buddha appears, human, devas, and bramas eyes are opened and are able to practice to end this merry-go-round samsara and achieve nirvana.
Seconds after Buddha passed away, attained Mahaparinibbana, some monks cried, saying the eyes of the world is gone because without a Buddha nobody knows
about nirvana and how to attain nirvana.
What Albert Einstein says about Buddhism?
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the
spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers
this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.”
Prof. Albert Einstein
“To go to Him for refuge, to sing His praise, to do Him honour and to abide in His Dhamma is to act with understanding.”
Poet of ancient India
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