Make yourself light
By bhanusb
@bhanusb (5709)
India
March 12, 2009 11:35am CST
'Make yourself light
Search your destination by this light
Don't take help or shelter of other's'
It's one of the teachings of Lord Buddha.Buddha said humen's work
decide his or her destinatioin.No God but humen create his or her
own fate.Do you like these teachings?
7 responses
@freethinkingagent (2501)
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15 Mar 09
I can agree it is not God that decides the destinies of man, but man himself who drives his destiny by the choices he/she makes. This is not to say there is not a God, nor is it saying God does not have a plan for mankind. Only that man can chose to do what is right and follow the light, or hide in darkness thinking that he has no obligations to humanity and his brother, The later being a very sad state of life, building up riches and all things in this world that he can not take to the next world. No mater what the religion of man is, the point of all religions is to escape the bondage of this physical world and to ascend to the light, some call the light Christ, Allah, Krishna or any other names they chose. But there is a creator, the source of all life, to him we shall ether return to or our light eventually will burn out and we are no more.
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@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
15 Mar 09
You are a bit off base in a post on Buddhism. One of the most important Theravada Buddhist texts, the Visuddhimagga states;
"No God, No Brahma, can be called
The Maker of the wheel of life:
Empty phenomena roll on,
Dependent on conditions all."
In Buddhist belief there is no creator or source of life.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
12 Mar 09
The process and the thought may be different but the result is identical to that achieved by those who 'allow God into their lives'. The object of both exercises is to become one with the stream of Universal Consciousness. It doesn't matter whether you call it God or Light or whatever else, it amounts to the same thing.
I agree that our fate is not pre-ordained. It is decided by how we act and how we interact with the force which some call the energy of creation, others call Light, yet others call God or the Love of God. In 'God' terms, we are not asked to become God but to become as one with Him. That is a very different thing.
The more we are at one with that being or energy or love, the more we have the light (the insight) that it is and gives us and the easier it becomes to know our true destiny/destination.
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
12 Mar 09
I know you do, Islander, I was reading some of your other posts and realised that we both understand a truth ... call it what you will or see the unknowable in whichever way is given to each of us. Mr Robert Burns might have been a debaucher and a drunkard for much of his life but he did say:
"So gie's a han', my trusty friend, and here's a han' in thine ... "
We have many anxieties and angers which beset us and appear to conflict but we do meet at a point ... and that point is worth holding, I think.
"Sae I'll gie a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang's syne."
"Slainte!"
@Bhurishrava (681)
• India
13 Mar 09
This the most wondrful teaching. This only teaching that cannot be folowed., but only lived.
Thank you, dear friend, because you have triggered a light in us.
Buddham sharanam gacchami
Dharmam sharanam gachami
Sangam sharanam gachami
@P_Ahman (72)
• Russian Federation
12 Mar 09
These teachings are one of the fundament truth of our existence. Because by the time we realize that there is no preordined mission for us on earth here, we then begin to live and not exist. We create our own destiny as we go along. Whatever happens in our lifes we caused it. we don't change the world we change ourselves. We must become the change we want to see(Mahatma Gandhi).
