Buddhism is Never an Academic Concern

Publish Date:2024-08-10

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(1) Buddhism is never an academic concern. For what it disseminates is just the essence of a very plain truth serving to enlighten the common people on the principles an individual must abide by in everyday life. The essence of the plain truth propagated by Buddhism is in agreement with the popular mentality, and the common people are prone to identifying themselves with it. The Buddhist Chan Order undertakes to faithfully and accurately pass over to the common people the plain truth uncovered by Siddhartha Gautama. If the order’s strenuous efforts at conveying Sakyamuni’s teachings to the common people can verily benefit them, such efforts shall probably be rated as worthwhile. Else every Chan Buddhist in China would be left forlorn and weighed down with a distressed, though compassionate, heart, if for all the Chan Buddhists’ incessant appeals to innate sagacity of the general public so as to kindle a social craving for a universal salvation, few or even none of those whom the Buddhist Chan Order has spared no efforts in rubbing in its religious inculcations has in the end truly attained liberation. From My Heart My Buddha


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