FAQs

Some people think that women cannot realize Nibbana. Also, it is a pity to see how bad the women are treated in some regions of the world. In some countries, female children are killed the instant they are born. Women have sometimes become like machines that make children and do household chores. It is Lord Buddha who saw this tragedy and helped women. Buddha taught his Dhamma to women without treating them differently. Women who listened to Dhamma realized it. Many women became Arahant at that time. Is not it the Supreme Buddha who first gave the women the freedom in [...]

Age is not a problem to realize the Dhamma. What is needed is the ability to think about Dhamma with your wisdom. It does not matter if a person is rich or poor. If one has the talent to think about Dhamma wisely and with an enduring effort, then that person can realize Dhamma whatever the status of that person’s social life is. Children as young as seven years and people as old as one hundred and twenty years had realized Dhamma at Gautama Buddha’s time and as well as after his Parinibbhana (the pass-away of Buddha or the end of [...]

The Dhamma taught by the Supreme Buddha is Sanditthikai which means his teachings can be realized in this very own life if someone tries enough. You can of course realize it because the true teachings of Buddha are still preserved. Try it and see…

The Supreme Buddha named the one and only path to achieve Nibbana as the Aarya Ashthangika Margaya (the Noble Eight-Fold Path). This Noble Eight-Fold Path only exists in Buddhism. The noble path is a middle path rejecting two extremes; living a luxury life with high pleasures at all the time and living an excruciating life by torturing the body with extreme pains. The disciple needs to choose the middle path and live accordingly without entering to either of these two extremes. One of the important things that should be mentioned here is that you will feel a great pleasure to your [...]

You know an oil lamp lights when it has enough oil and wick to mix each other and when the wick is lit with fire. If the oil, the wick, or the lamp is not present, it cannot be lighten. When the oil and wick are ended, the lamp will not light any longer. At that point, if someone asks you to which direction the flame went to, what will be your answer? The answer one can give to that question is that the lamp light was extinguished because there was no oil or wick left to burn off. In other [...]

In order to eliminate the suffering, we need to eradicate the desire completely. Eradication of desire entirely is the end of suffering. That is the Nibbana. If suffering is created by desire, then there is no sorrow when whatever is changed with time if the desire is completely gotten rid of.

Think like this for a second. It is true that we feel happy because of the affectionate and soothing things that exist in this world. Though, can you keep those things with you forever? You cannot at least keep the happiness for as long as you wish in your own lifetime. If you are blinded by these temporary things and attached in desire, then you will become sad and unhappy when you lose those. Thus, that happiness will not last forever. A long time ago, there was a king called Mundarµaja. He married a queen who had a beautiful figure that [...]

We learnt what the Buddha taught us about the suffering in question number two discussed earlier. We are victims of sickness, aging, death, departure from the loved ones, union with the dislike ones and objects, and not getting or loosing what we wished for. These things make us feel pain, sorrow, and suffering. Even with tremendous amount of money, having high ranks, or becoming famous, we cannot overcome these circumstances. Everyone who is born become victims of this suffering. Therefore, we need to identify the cause for such suffering, and then only we can conquer it. Let us consider an oil [...]

Think insightfully about the points mentioned above in question number two and try to correlate these facts to your life. Isn’t your life filled with those things that bring suffering? In other words, the Supreme Buddha taught us the real facts about the suffering that each and every one face. This is why it is not an ominous approach to think about the suffering to understand it. In Buddhism, one thinks about the suffering in a way to help comprehend it, but not as to make it worse. Thus, you will be able to recognize that thinking about suffering to realize [...]

Have you thought of an answer to the question ‘what is suffering’ before? It was the Gautama Buddha who found a complete answer to this question. In the Buddha’s first sermon, which is called ‘Dhamma Chakkha Pavattana Sutta,’ he gave a brief description to the suffering as follows. “Birth is a suffering, aging is suffering, sickness is suffering, death is suffering, leaving loved ones is suffering, unification with dislikes is suffering, and missing what is wished for is suffering. In summary, all five attachments or clinging (Pancha Upadanaskanda), objects (rupa), feelings (vedana), recognitions (sangna), deeds/or aims (sanskara), and explicit recognitions (viññana) [...]