There is a great deal of suffering in a life of anyone who was born to this world. Buddhism helps understanding this realty and reveals the one and only path to free one’s self from this entire suffering. Buddhism is the Dhamma that consists of discourses preached by the Buddha. The Dhamma was well taught with a comparable beginning, middle, and an end. Irrelevant of the time of practicing, the Dhamma can be understood in this very own life. Anyone can be asked to come and witness it. Like a person uses a mirror to see the reflected image of himself, a disciple needs to see his/her own life with the mirror of Dhamma. One of the main characteristics of the Dhamma is its ability to open/prepare someone’s mind to realize it according to the person’s wisdom. This is why the Dhamma is remarkable and esteemed.

Some people identify Buddhism as a philosophy. In a way, it is correct. The philosophy of the Buddha is the truth or the exact way of the world. Because the teachings of the Buddha allow one to attain Nibbana ending the suffering of being in the repeating cycle of life, aging, sickness, and death, Buddhism can also be considered as a religion.

The Buddha is the greatest human being that has ever been born in this world. He is the most fortunate one who freed himself from craving, anger, and the delusional state we are in because of the ignorance of the four noble truths. He followed the Eightfold Path by Himself and realized the Dhamma without a teacher. The Buddha was a miraculous person with a tremendous wisdom. With this miraculous wisdom, He could see the past lives of other beings, find out where one has been born after the death, see any object at any distance, listen to sounds at any distance, walk in the sky, and penetrate any solid substances including the ground, move inside of it, and come out of it from a different place like swimming in the water. He could also walk on the water like on the floor, go through any kind of barriers like mountains or walls, and touch the sun, the moon, and the starts. He lived a life according to the experience He gained from His wisdom after purifying Himself from all defilements. In order to purify himself from the defilements, He sought after the path to Nibbana and found it. Following this path He attained the great Nibbana. He saw, understood, and freed himself from all the worlds including human, animal, and the worlds that a normal human eye cannot see. There were dangerous, misbehaved, and stubborn animals, humans, and divine beings at the Buddha’s time. They could not be controlled by a normal person or a god, but the Buddha was able to control, calm, and finally to show them the bliss of Nibbana with His wisdom and kindness. He is also the one true teacher to humans and to gods because He is the only leader who can show them the path to free their lives from suffering. The ultimate purpose of the dawn of a Buddha’s era is to show the innocent beings the path to Nibbana or to shed the light of Four Noble Truths on to the lives of many. The Buddha taught us the Dhamma, which includes the Four Noble Truths, composed of clear and excellent words and meanings so that others can understand it well. He who is with such remarkable qualities is certainly the most fortunate of all beings. The Buddha is such a person who lived about 2553 years ago and is still the greatest person to be ever lived in this world.

One day, the Buddha addressed Aananda Thero and said “Dear Aananda, you might think ‘isn’t this a doctrine of a teacher who has passed away? So, we don’t have a teacher now.’ Dear Aananda, don’t ever think in that way. Aananda, the Dhamma and the discipline I taught you will be the teacher for you after I die.” It is clear from this statement that if the Dhamma is spared even after so many years of the Buddha’s passing away, one will still be able to see Him alive through the Dhamma he taught us. Hence, the Dhamma will be our refuge. We shall therefore act according to the Dhamma without being regret about our teacher’s death. It is that Dhamma we will be presenting in our website.

The Buddha is not a god neither a normal human being. He was a noble man, and became the greatest among humans (and deities) attaining the Nibbana after he was born as a human.

The Buddha has an excellent behavior beyond normal human nature, and is only seen in another Buddha. Veranja Brahmin one day asked the Buddha “why aren’t you worship or admire the old and matured people?” The Buddha answered him “dear Brahmin, let’s say a chicken has eight, ten, or twelve eggs. When that chicken warms its eggs sitting on them without caring about the bad chicken smell it is making, the chicks will one day come out from those eggs. Dear Brahmin, the chick who will come out first by breaking the egg shell will be the eldest of all. Dear Brahmin, every being in every world is trapped within an egg known as ignorance. These poor people don’t know how to free themselves from it. In fact, I am the first to break that shell of ignorance and free myself from the suffering in which everyone is being trapped. This is why I became the greatest person among all beings of all worlds. I realized the truth of life without any guidance of a teacher. Thus, I became the Supreme Buddha (Samma Sambuddha). This is why I am the eldest person of the entire world.”
According to this discussion, the Buddha is the eldest and the greatest of all because He was the first to realize the Four Noble Truths or the truth of the world and to attain the Nibbana by overcoming the ignorance. Thus, who else is there to worship or to admire more highly than to our teacher, the Gautama Buddha?

As Buddhists, we used to select a place to worship the Buddha. This place is called a ‘temple.’ The utmost position of this temple belongs to the Lord Buddha as He is the most fortunate one. This is why Buddhists make the Buddha’s statues to represent Him and place them in the temple. However, we cannot ever make a statue containing the thirty two great bodily characteristics of the Buddha to represent His extraordinary figure. In the temple, we worship the Buddha by thinking him and his endless noble qualities that no one else possesses.

There are different types of rituals that are performed in temples to worship the Buddha nowadays. Among these rituals, ringing bells, lighting oil lamps, and offering the scent of fragrant sticks, flowers, and food and drinks are some of them. All of these are done as a part of worshiping the Lord Buddha. Nevertheless, the Buddha told us that the most profound way to worship Him is by traversing the Samsara by following the noble path He taught us.

We have to think twice about you being saying that the Buddhist countries are poor. Let us think about the past for a moment. Buddhist countries like India and Sri Lanka were the most developed countries in the world at the Buddha’s time. This was also true at the time when there were Arahants (the noble disciples of the Buddha who attained Nibbana) among us even after the Buddha’s passing away. This statement can be verified if we go to those countries and check their past. In that time period, these countries have had huge buildings such as castles of seven or eight floors, advanced irrigation systems, parks, well-developed highway systems, and as well as self-sustaining economies. The people in most of the western countries now known as powerful and developed were not even morally matured in that era about 2550 years ago. The Buddhist countries will still be powerful like before if the people are still following the Buddha’s teachings and live a true life of a Buddhist. Since some Buddhists fail to follow the pure teachings of the Buddha, they lost their wealth. However, people who are still living true Buddhist lives remain rich and prosperous. They will not lose their wealth in the future as long as they follow the Buddha’s teachings to guide their lives. Using the Buddhist way of economy, therefore, not only the Buddhist countries but also the whole world can be developed.

The disciple Sangha (Bhikkhus) of the Buddha protected their teacher’s discourses by memorizing and carrying them to the next generation by heart for a long period of time. Since that time, everyone’s private opinions have been appeared as Dhamma by shrinking true words of the Buddha even though His true words are still preserved untainted in sacred texts of Buddhism (Tripitaka). As a result, monks were divided into groups of different views at time to time. This is why diverse sects of Buddhism can be identified today. Though, the truth is that one can still attain great Nibbana (rid of Samsara or the circle of life, aging, sickness, and death) by living a life according to the Buddha’s teachings. There is no doubt or an argument about it…

As long as the pure Biddhism is preserved, one can achieve Nibbana by following it and observing the Eight Noble Path no matter what sect of Buddhism that person belongs to. This is the doctrine that you are going to receive from our website.

There are four truths or realities in this world. They are known as the Four Noble Truths or Chaturarya Satthya. Whether someone has been categorized into being poor, rich, or any other type, that person still has to face the pain, the suffering, or the stress of being born into this world. Every being has to face birth, sickness, aging, death, leaving the loved ones behind, blending with the dislike people, pain or the stress of not getting what is wanted, and etc. This is the first noble truth, which is called the Dukka Aarya Satthya, of the world. This suffering belongs to every living being and it is a noble truth. Also, this suffering exists because of the craving one has towards different things. This is the second noble truth or the Dukka Samudaya Aarya Satthya. The third noble truth is known as the Dukka Nirodha Aarya Satthya, which is the truth of cessation of the first noble truth (suffering) by defeating the second noble truth (craving). The method to overcome suffering is known as the Eight Noble Path and is the fourth noble truth or the Dukka Nirodha Gamini Patipada Aarya Satthya. No one can prove that these four noble truths are false with proper facts and reasoning. The Lord Buddha is the one who found these Four Noble Truths and can only be found in the Order of Gautama Buddha. Therefore, please select the truth. You will then be able to clarify what is false.

What people knew through science about couple of years ago has changed now. Almost all the instruments we have now are different from what we had before. The knowledge that the science provides us today will be changed by tomorrow. When science proves to comfort people with worldly and luxurious items, they start to depend on it. Some even look for refuge of science ignorantly failing to see the good qualities that human race lacks today. This trend promoted bad habits of people such as killing, stealing, adulteration, lying, telling tales, speaking rude and worthless words, drinking alcohols, and living immoral lives. As a result, dreadful effects on the preservation of moral qualities that a society depends on and as well as on the world itself have been increased over the last few decades. Crimes and wars at small and large scales can also be seen because of these ignorant behaviors. Therefore, one could predict a rather dangerous world in the future than at present.

In contrast to the modern science, Buddhism describes an effective way of helping the world to make it a better place. Buddhism is not some mere concepts that someone has described in the past. It is the truth of this world that was emanated from the mind of the greatest person of all time. It holds the reality of every living thing. It does not change depending on the time we live, and it does not change because science has found something new, which can still be proved to be wrong after another thing is invented from the same science. What the Buddha taught will cure the corrupted minds and hearts of humans and as well as deities ceasing the above mentioned immoral actions of the world. Considering these details, how can we match science to Buddhism? Scientific experiments may have observed or proved some features taught in Buddhism, but has science reached its climax or identified a way to stop the Samsara? In fact, if Buddhism is an ocean, scientists will only be able to find a piece of knowledge of the size of small nacre in that ocean. Thus, to match Buddhism to science is as unwise as to match that small nacre to the huge ocean.

The Buddha taught us not to involve in killings. In Parajikapali (a part of the Buddha’s teachings included in the discipline part which is known as the Vinaya Pitaka), the Buddha has taught us that it is a sin to kill even one day lasted pregnancy. In fact, Supreme Buddha is the first teacher who made a voice objecting the abortions about 2553 years ago. Thus, you could imagine how marvelous the Buddhism is.

There is no other person than the Buddha Himself who loved the nature. He was even born under a tree called Sal Tree. He also attained the Buddha-hood under a tree (Bodhi Tree) and passed away under two Sal Trees in Upawartana forest. The Buddha used to live in deep forests at time to time since He attained the Buddha-hood, but He never destroyed any trees or leaves. He never killed an animal. Our teacher even established some rules for His disciples to live a harmless life that protects the environment. He ordered His disciples not to cut trees, not to urinate into flowing water, and not to urinate, spit, or dump foods on to green grass. Thus, it is clear that the Buddha started to think about nature about 2553 years ago, and He is also a great example of a person who loved the nature.

Let us first understand what the meaning of the soul (Aatma) or the view of soul (Aatma drustiya) is. Let us assume that there is something that we can control to our wish. Then, that thing is known as a soul. However, nothing in this world including our own life can be controlled as to our own expectations. Every type of life is made out of objects (rupa), feelings (vedana), recognitions (sangna), deeds/or aims (sanskara), and explicit recognitions (viññana). If someone thinks that these things can be controlled as one wishes, thinking life as me, mine, and my soul, then it is called the view of soul. One who is attached to this view thinks that his/or her soul will become eternal or will be gone forever after the death. Both these ideas can be seen because the soul is thought to be controllable. There are religions that state there is a soul that can be controlled, be thought of as me, mine, and my soul, and it becomes eternal after death. All these religions are therefore categorized into the group of religions that believe in the theory of soul.

However, nothing in this world can be controlled according to someone’s will because everything becomes destroyed someday. We can consider our own lives as an example. This body gets sick, become old, and dies one day. None of these can be stopped as we wish. You get different types of pains, but they cannot be either changed or make disappeared as you desire. The thoughts that come into your mind are also random and cannot be controlled. This means, none of these can be considered as ‘I’ or ‘mine.’ All of those are soul-less. They are just some things that occurred due to a reason and stop existing after that reason is gone. They do not belong to someone. Therefore, they are soul-less.

Let us think whether there is anything that is permanent, at least a little bit. All the figures in this world are transient. All the comfortable, painful, or moderate feelings we perceive are temporary. Recognition of figures, sounds, odors, tastes, feelings, and thoughts will also become impermanent. They change rapidly. Our expectations and recognitions also subjected to change. Since all these are changing with time and even a small thing cannot be seen as permanent; there is nothing we can control as to our aspiration. Whether we like it or not, we all grow old, become sick, and die. It happens in such a way because none of these things belong to us. This is why everything is known to be soul-less. This implies that we cannot keep anything under our control or change them as we desire. Thus, the Supreme Buddha taught us the true nature of the world and taught us the way of the theory of soul-less.

There are poor countries in the world today. The Lord Buddha taught us that the poverty grows or spreads among people when the rulers or the government of these countries do not help poor citizens providing means such as food, money, and land to live their lives. If there are poor people in a country, the government treasury of that country and also the other rich countries should come forth and facilitate those people. They should be helped finding jobs and making their future stable by following the ways that Buddha has shown us. I will explain you those ways of development shown in Buddhism.
Lord Buddha in one of his teachings known as the ‘Vyaghghapajja Sutta’, he taught us a number of qualities that one needs to build within him to help fighting poverty. If someone earns money from a job related to agriculture, business, government, or any other type, then that person has to cultivate four qualities in order to become prosperous. Those are:

Effort (Utthana Sampada):- One should build the ability to work hard and skillfully overcoming any laziness tactfully. Also, the person should be capable of organizing the work efficiently. This is the effort.
Protection (Aarakkha Sampada):- The money one earned by working hard needs to be protected without letting it destroyed from natural disasters such as fire, wind, floods, and landslides and from being confiscated.
Noble friendship (Kalyhanhamittata):- A Noble friend has excellent characteristics such as being pleased about Lord Buddha, virtuous, fond of giving, and association with wise friends. When someone has such a friendship, that person will also become rich with the same qualities.
Living according to what you earn or have (Samajevikata):- That is living a life by only spending money matched to what is being earned. One should not spend money carelessly, but at the same time should not be greedy. One needs to be comfortably live spending money according to that person’s wealth.

After improving these qualities, one should also close the four doorways of destruction. Those four destructive doorways are:
Passion towards women.
Thirst towards liquor.
Eagerness towards gambling.
Longing of low-quality friendships.

One who lives a life according to these teachings of Buddha will definitely see a prospered life in a little period of time. This is how prosperity can be achieved through Buddhism. Try this method by yourself, and you will also witness the wisdom of Buddha.