The Essence of Buddhism
Teaching by His Holiness The Seventeenth Karmapa
The essence of the Buddhist teaching is as the following verse states:
Do not commit any evil actions.
Engage in excellent virtue.
And tame your own mind ----
This is the teaching of the Buddha.
The entire Buddhist dharma can be summarize by the instruction to give up harming others and to benefit them. The spiritual friends of the Kadampa tradition taught that the entirety of the Buddhist scriptures as well as the lesser and greater yanas are included in these two. Being a “Buddhist” involves three things - giving up harming others, benefiting them and taming one’s own mind.If you possess these three, you are a Buddhist.A Buddhist, or someone who practices the Buddhist teachings regardless of their particular practice, should never harm others, should benefit other beings wither directly, implicitly or indirectly through their actions; and should not mix their physical and verbal actions with thoughts that disturb the mind, such as non virtue an mental afflictions.
If you can move on the perfect path of taming your mind, are always mindful of guarding your mind and possess the proper ethical discipline to do that, you have properly taken to heart what it means to be a Buddhist.
(Will continue)
Teaching by His Holiness The Seventeenth Karmapa
The essence of the Buddhist teaching is as the following verse states:
Do not commit any evil actions.
Engage in excellent virtue.
And tame your own mind ----
This is the teaching of the Buddha.
The entire Buddhist dharma can be summarize by the instruction to give up harming others and to benefit them. The spiritual friends of the Kadampa tradition taught that the entirety of the Buddhist scriptures as well as the lesser and greater yanas are included in these two. Being a “Buddhist” involves three things - giving up harming others, benefiting them and taming one’s own mind.If you possess these three, you are a Buddhist.A Buddhist, or someone who practices the Buddhist teachings regardless of their particular practice, should never harm others, should benefit other beings wither directly, implicitly or indirectly through their actions; and should not mix their physical and verbal actions with thoughts that disturb the mind, such as non virtue an mental afflictions.
If you can move on the perfect path of taming your mind, are always mindful of guarding your mind and possess the proper ethical discipline to do that, you have properly taken to heart what it means to be a Buddhist.
(Will continue)
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