The purpose of Buddhism is a cessation of suffering. The way is all laid out in the eight-fold path. The first step is the correct perspective. There is more than one correct perspective. These are grouped in two categories; the worldly and the sublime perspectives. The former has to do with relative suffering and moral causality.
The reason for Buddhist debate is to bring everyone around to the correct view. It is not about who is right, it is about what is right. The purpose of Buddhism is to redeem people, not to defeat them. continue reading…
A Plan for Self and Selfless Development
Over the past 38 years there have been so many times when I ‘got stuck’ in my practice of Nichiren Buddhism. It would get to a point that I had no idea what to do. The answer was always to chant, but chant for what? The answer was to chant to achieve my goals, but what goals? The real answer was always there; it is is called the Noble Eightfold Path.
