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What the Buddha Taught
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This is the only worthwhile book on Buddhism I've come across. Other books I've read wallow in touchy-feely mumbo-jumbo. Rahula is straight forward, treating Buddhism not as witchcraft or God's thoughts, but as the best devised way of proceeding through this veil. He lays Buddhism out clearly & simply, making a sober & cogent argument for what it has to offer.
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Jun 26, 2011 02:31AM
Well said Bill, to my shocking discovery even Paul Carus who wrote many editions of "Gospel of Buddha" lies and makes so many blunders in his writing, but there is no parallel in the history of Buddhist writers to Professor, Ven Walpola Rahula. This is my Ultimate list on Buddhist Books.
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"The Buddha said these are the blessings supreme: To be reverent and humble, upright and content,to abstain from and avoid intoxicants, not to associate with the foolish, to be well skilled in handicraft, to be well educated, to have done good deeds, to be well caring of wife and children,
to be well caring of mother and father, selfless giving and openhandedness toward all one's relatives.."
"As a mother watches over her child willing to risk her own life,
so let us cultivate a boundless heart of compassion toward all sentient beings "
"May Everyone Everywhere enjoy abounding blessedness "
