DHAMMAS.ORG Newsletter .2022
4 Divine messengers.
Seeing the 4 divine messengers shook the Buddha to his core and this led him to seek salvation. The 4 divine messengers are old age, sickness, and death, and the 4th sight was an ascetic homeless seeker after truth. Thus he knew what he had to do. Life as he knew it had no more attraction for him since it would all vanish now or at the time of death.
An eternal solution to the problem of life and death needed to be found. It took the Buddha nearly 6 years of intense struggle to discover the light which shines continuously, the Dhamma, The Truth, law. Justice.
We are so fortunate to have access to this teaching which we call the Marvel. It truly transforms us. Let us dedicate our entire energy to this single aim of salvation at any cost.
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Verse of the month.
There is pleasure and there is bliss. Forgo the first in order to attain the second.
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Zoom meetings, 3 times per week.
The venerable Subhuti has been invited to assist in teaching on Zoom meetings
with Austin Buddhist Temple. The website is www.phapnhap.org.
World on Edge.
The pandemic has taught us how impermanence and suffering are ever present in our lives and no sooner did we learn to live with it, we find ourselves witnessing a brutal Russia and Ukraine war. with the same old defilements at work.
Greed, hatred, and delusion are the fundamental roots operating within the human mind.
Delusion: Stupidity, dullness, confusion, ignorance of the Four Noble Truths, prejudice, ideological dogmatism, fanaticism, wrong views, conceit.
Helping hands;
Dhammas.org, Ven.Subhuti is on Religious sabbatical at the Tu vien Temple in Arlington and will carry on teaching to a limited extent.
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