Road to Buddhism

At the end of the road you will find your self in the boat that has been dragged onto the shore, hesitant to leave it.

It has been your loyal companion and home for so long. I am of course talking about the boat that was to bring you to the other side. Buddhism.

When reaching some level of enlightenment and understanding you naturally become deeply grateful for what Buddhism has brought to your life.

And there are many places in the literature that warns of getting attached to the boat. At the end you must let go of Buddhism as well, to fully become a Buddhist.

It is like the famous painting of a pipe, where the plague below says “this is not a pipe”, and people may look confounded because to them it looks like a pipe, even though it is a painting.

And so, we must not confuse being a Buddhist with Buddhism. Buddhism being the vehicle and not the state.

Finding your self in that boat-on-shore situation you can turn to U.G. Krishnamurti. He will dispel any such attachments at once.

Buddhist year 2561 is the year 2018 in the calendar based on the birth of Jesus.

Buddhism celebrates many holidays and festivals, most of which commemorate important events in the life of the Buddha or various Bodhisattvas. The date of the holidays are based on the lunar calendar and often differ by country and tradition.

Buddhist holidays are joyful occasions. A festival day normally begins with a visit to the local temple, where one offers food or other items to the monks and listens to a Dharma talk. The afternoon might consist of distributing food to the poor to earn merit, circumambulating (walking around) the temple three times in honor of the Three Jewels, chanting and meditation.

Some of the most important Buddhist holidays and festivals are briefly outlined below.

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Lets try to break it down a little.

There are 24 negative emotions of the heart. Anger (Krodha), Confinement (Upanah), Hypocrisy (Mrikshapradana), Envy or Jealousy (Irshya), Malice (Matsarya) and so forth.

If you look deeply you see that they all have the same nature. Their fabric is fear.

All fear is in egoic mind, there are no lions or wolfs where you and I live.

Fear is always related to the past or the future. Never to the present.

Now already the picture is clearer.

Also you are never in the present, always in the future or the past.

It would seem you are always the same place as fear. Coincidence?

On a Thursday you are running late and on your way back from work you get a flat tire, so you are late for supper. You get into a quarrel with your spouse and the kids cry. It is a “horrible” day.

Now you (mind) will try to avoid this from happening ever again. It will start looking for similarities to give you an early warning. Any given moment it will inquire if this could lead to the same bad situation. If it does you will feel fear arise in any of the 24 forms depending on the type if threat. We are much evolved in this regard.

But this is not the end of it. As we become older and more seasoned we will eventually start fabricating measures. We tire of looking for early signs instead we try to navigate so we can feel save without looking.

And in this trying to prevent you from future sorrows YOU are born.

This is why Krishnamurti wrote “Fear IS you. You ARE fear”.

If you look you will see that faith is the antidote to fear.

These (judgmental) thoughts arise in my conscious awareness.

I did not invite them or create them.

They are the past karma of the human race.

I shall endeavour to give them the love they craved when they were born long time ago.

They shall come to rest in me, and not pas on to the next generation through me.

I shall make room for them in my heart.

I wow to not hate them or hold any aversion towards them.

I can release my self from their suffering by granting them unlimited love in my heart.

I pledge to melt this iceberg of uncried tears.