The Basic Concepts of Buddhism

Among the people who realized Dhamma, there were poor people too. They could realize Dhamma after affiliated in the Order of Gautama Buddha. Also, there were rich people among them as well. This means whether a person has money or not, it does not matter for the realization of Dhamma. One day, a sick person suffered from hives saw a group of people gathered at a place. This person thought that it was a place where he could get some food to eat. He went to the place quickly and looked over. Then he realized the Supreme Buddha was delivering a [...]

It is the capability of thinking and understanding Dhamma that matters in realizing Nibbana not the educational qualifications. Either with a good educational background or not, one can realize Nibbana if that person can compare Dhamma to oneself according to the way Buddha showed it. However, it is important to remember Dhamma after reading it or listening to it since it helps understanding it. Of course, even some people who could not remember Dhamma realized it in the past… There was a venerable monk known as Chullapanthaka. Even after trying for four months, he could not remember at least two sentences [...]

It is possible for blind, deaf, or disabled people without hands or legs who can think wisely to realize Buddha’s teachings. Therefore, a blind person who can think well can still be able to realize Dhamma after listening to it. If a person was not born deaf, but become deaf after some time, that person will realize Dhamma if he can understand Dhamma by reading it. Let us say that someone was born disabled, but can see and hear. Then, that person can stop the birth which can leads to more of such miserable lives without hands or legs by understanding [...]

If this Dhamma is to be realized, one needs to have a great thinking ability. Wise children who can think about Dhamma properly will be able to realize it. In Buddha’s time, there were lots of children of seven, eight, nine, ten, or twelve years old who realized this great Dhamma and became Arahants. Thus, you will be able to understand how important this Dhamma is. It helps everyone. It is an invaluable refuge for you and your children.

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.