The Wisdom of the Buddha

The Dhammapada. This is the Buddhist Dhammapada which are the main sayings and wisdom of the Buddha.Buddha lived around 600 B.C.E. in India. He was raised as a prince. After the birth of his first son, he left his family and began a quest to seek out the source of suffering in the world.He tried all methods of meditation and is said to have fasted to the point of eating only one grain of rice or bean per day. This left him near exhaustion and no closer to the riddle of suffering. He sat down under a Bo tree and ate something and rested. He then began to see visions and became as he said, "awakened". He then went and found the 6 ascetics with whom he had been traveling and taught them what he had learned. Then for the next forty years taught his message: The eight-fold path.Toward the end of his life when his religion began to be established there was an attempt on his life. He survived and continued to teach. The bureaucratic power which always manifest around great religious figures had already begun to take over the message. When he was 82 he became ill while traveling from village to village. He sat down under a tree and sent out word that he was dying. Many came to see him. When he saw everyone, he went into mediation and left his body.Within a month after his death, his followers gathered together and wrote down his most famous sayings and teachings. These have come down to us as the Dhammapada which contains 423 verses.What I have done is not to interpret the original pictographs which have been most surely manipulated over the millennium, but have taken several translations and then put a peace and harmony WorldPeace orientation on them. What has manifested is more of an interpretation than a literaltranslation. This is what the saying of Buddha, as handed down over the millennia say to me.I have no intention to argue over the literal translation of what the Buddha said. The thrust of his message is contained within my words. Neither am I trying to convert anyone to my way of thinking. I am only presenting what I have personally found after years of studying the sayings of the Buddha. My objective is to increase the peace on earth. My goal is to find like minded souls to further explore these thoughts and to help manifest WorldPeace.THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHSThe Four Noble Truths1. Every human being to some extent lives in confusion (sorrow) in the manifestations of the Infinite and this reality.2. The main cause of confusion is self centered desire because we think that we are not at one with all of humanity. 3. We can put an end to our confusion in the manifestations of the Infinite and this reality and begin to live in peace and harmony by overcoming ourself centered desire.4. Confusion can be put to an end by following the peaceful and harmonious eight fold path which consists of:1. Peaceful and harmonious Knowledge. Know in our minds that all things change. 2. Peaceful and harmonious Aspiration. Determination to live in the peace and harmo...