BUDDHISM IN THE EYES OF INTELLECTUALS – MAN’S POSITION IN BUDDHISM

BUDDHISM IN THE EYES OF INTELLECTUALS – MAN’S POSITION IN BUDDHISM

Man give law to nature

Law in the scientific sense is essentially a product of the human mind and has no meaning apart from man. There is more meaning in the statement that man gives law to nature than in its converse that nature gives laws to man.

– Prof. Karl Pearson

Man is not ready made

Man today is the result of millions of repititions of thoughts and acts. He is not ready made; he becomes, and is still becoming. His character is predetermind by his own choice, the thought, the act, which he chooses, that by habit, he becomes.

– Ven. Piyadassi

Man can stand on his own feet

Buddhism makes man stand on his own two feet and rouses self confidence and engergy.

– Ven. Narada Thera, “Buddhism in a Nutshell”

Man can cease to be crushed

Man is greater that the blind forces of nature because even though he is crushed by them he remains superior by virtue of his understanding of them. Again., Buddhism carries the truth further: it shows that by means of understanding man can also control his circumstances. He can cease to be crushed by them, and use their laws to raise himself.

– Pascal