WHY I BECAME A BUDDHIST
作者:DOROTHY C. DONATH
I became a Buddhist because Buddhism (the Buddha-Dharma) is a religion of reason : it is pragmatic but at the same time preeminently of the spiritand so a deeply satisfying way of life ; because it imposes no creeds or dogmas and demands no submission to or blind faith in any separate diety , person or thing , andthus is devoid of every dualistic belief and concept ; because it teaches unity with all life everywhere , and compassion for every living being , man and animal alike ; because it accords to man the beauty and dignity of original perfection , not original sin , and show him the way by meams of his own efforts , intuitive insights , and growing realization to uncover this perfection-his real and intrinsic Buddha-nature-which is Enlightenment itself ; and finally I became a Buddhist because Buddhism affirms that the cosmos , with all its evolving worlds in all their relative reality , is not a "creation" in specific time by any personal God or Beign , however transcendent , but is a manifestation , an outpouring , of universal Infiinite Intelligence , Mind-the only Ultimate Reality , of which every sentient being is a part and in which all life everywhere share-never static , but forever folding , and unfolding in the Way of Ultinmate Truth , without beginnig and without end .
(from "VOICE OF BUDDHISM" Vol. 8 No. 1) 第3期 公元1971年5月发行 |