Sunday, June 22, 2008

A Safe Haven During The Air Raid 普渡眾生


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  1. lesleyJune 22, 2008 at 6:13 PM

    He felt that human life was a misery, and that it would be better not to be born into the world at all. If there were no "life", there would be no "age", no "sickness" and no "death". As a person, no one could escape life, age, sickness and death. The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became. What way could there be to free human life from misery? He made up his mind to leave the palace and go into the hills to study in peace and tranquillity. After sixteen years of contemplation he founded a religion, Buddhism, also called Sakyamunism. He preached that matter was transient but that the spirit could not be extinguished; that in every event there was cause and effect, so that good and bad deeds would all have their reward; and that living things, from men to insects, were all equal, so that a person must take mercy as primary and not kill any living thing.

    Translated from Lin Han Da ed., Stories from the Eastern Han, China Children and Young People's Press, Beijing, 1983

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