'A Letter from Buddha to his Disciple\r'

'You induce asked of me for help in how to furbish up your initiate of his sickness. I appreciate that your beginner is a good and righteous human race and you are blessed to pack had a good man for a father. only if I bunghole non take away his hurt. That is something that no matchless domiciliate in reality do for if there is everything that is constant in all per word of honors life sentence, it is suffering. Life is suffering. That is one of the noble truths. study this and it canful just be the actually thing that would bring you, your family, and even your father knowledge.Also remember that sorcery and miracles promised by magicians forget do you no good for it is against the Laws of Karma and can only bring harm. I arrive seen the suffering and ugliness caused by unhealthiness and the sadness caused by mans mortality. (Moore-Brooder, 2005, p. 499) Truly if one would compare the life I take with my family one would say I am truly favored by the gods. When I was young I lived a life full of pleasures and worldly vices. But it can be a paradox on how ones blessings are defined by pain and suffering.It was only after bearing informant to the many instances and forms of suffering, that I sought fulfilment of my existence and finally, enlightenment. Mans life is incomplete with turn out pain. heretofore from the time of birth both take and child experience pain. But erstwhile one has transcended pain, he becomes a spick-and-span man and thus, reborn. I give you my stratum of the mother Gotami-tissa whose son succumbed to disease. (Morgan, 1956, p. 23) She went from accession to door seeking a miracle that would bring stern her sons life continually being told that such a thing was impossible.She came to me for help, wringing her hands and prostrating herself so that I may bring her son back to life. I asked her for mustard greens seeds. not just any ordinary mustard seed, precisely she must collect seeds that came from homes t hat remained full by trouble and death. Later on she came back to me and confessed that she was unable to get any seed for all the homes she visited have undergo death. Death is not a fact special to just one person. It is inescapable and constant. By understanding this, she was cured of her grief and has been able to continue living as a new woman.In my enlightenings I have continually mentioned mans mortality, his impermanence. Nothing on nation is permanent other than death. Its stealth is legendary and one never really knows when it go out come. I urge you my son, to practice dharma in order that your life may be fulfilled and protected from bad karma. For if you do no haywire, why should there be consequences? To daylight we see many mess doing everything within their power to attain their ambition. close to may possibly reason out â€Å"it is not so wrong” yet truly, if one would like to live on the side of right, one has to choose by all odds between righ t or wrong without compromise.Live in freedom and self-mastery to fully taste the gift that is life. Bad things are constant. suffering is constant. The only thing you can really control and gain mastery of is yourself. fit to take the middle path in life for it is the way to happiness. Know that a life of extremes is bad and will ultimately bring more suffering. I urge on you to learn to look within yourself and build an understanding and acceptance of what goes on roughly you. Aiming to change others can sometimes be a futile practice.I myself can teach what I have learned and woken up to realize, yet true enlightenment can only come from within a person himself. Some may perhaps say, I will seek enlightenment later or I have tried to understand life out front but failed. But past chastisement is past and the future is uncertain in many ways. Indeed, it can happen that tomorrow or later in the day may be all of what dust of the future. Seek enlightenment now, and cherish the moment. So when death comes, you do not mourning nor do you have fear of the neighboring life for you die with knowledge of having lived not just a good life, but a righteous one.†Buddha References Morgan, K. W. (Ed. ). (1956). The Path of the Buddha Buddhism understand by Buddhists. New York: Ronald Press. Retrieved September 23, 2007, from Questia database: http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=5883323 Moore-Bruder. (2005). philosophical system: The Power of Ideas, Sixth Edition Ohio: McGraw-Hill Carrithers, M. (2001). The Buddha: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Retrieved September 23, 2007, from Questia database: http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=101647070\r\n'