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WHY I BECAME A BUDDHIST

       

发布时间:2010年06月13日
来源:明伦创刊   作者:DOROTHY C. DONATH
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WHY I BECAME A BUDDHIST

作者:DOROTHY C. DONATH

  I became a Buddhist because Buddhism (the Buddha-Dharma) is a religion of
reason : it is pragmatic but at the same time preeminently of the spiritand so a
deeply satisfying way of life ; because it imposes no creeds or dogmas and
demands no submission to or blind faith in any separate diety , person or thing ,
andthus is devoid of every dualistic belief and concept ; because it teaches
unity with all life everywhere , and compassion for every living being , man and
animal alike ; because it accords to man the beauty and dignity of original
perfection , not original sin , and show him the way by meams of his own efforts
, intuitive insights , and growing realization to uncover this perfection-his
real and intrinsic Buddha-nature-which is Enlightenment itself ; and finally I
became a Buddhist because Buddhism affirms that the cosmos , with all its
evolving worlds in all their relative reality , is not a "creation" in specific
time by any personal God or Beign , however transcendent , but is a manifestation
, an outpouring , of universal Infiinite Intelligence , Mind-the only Ultimate
Reality , of which every sentient being is a part and in which all life
everywhere share-never static , but forever folding , and unfolding in the Way of
Ultinmate Truth , without beginnig and without end .

(from "VOICE OF BUDDHISM" Vol. 8 No. 1)
                        第3期 公元1971年5月发行  

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