BUDDHISM IN THE EYES OF INTELLECTUALS – THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE

BUDDHISM IN THE EYES OF INTELLECTUALS – THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE

Unsatifactory world.

Buddha was not angry with the world. He thought of it as unsatisfactory and transitory rather than wicked, as ignorant rather than rebelliou. He troubled little about people who would not listen to him and showed no nervous irritablity.

– Prof. Eliot, “Buddhism and Hinduism”

A great Battle

The whole universe is a vast field of battle. Everywhere there is fighting. Existance is nothing but a vain struggle against germs of dreadful diseases, molecules against molecules, atoms against atoms, and electrons. Mind is still more scene of battle. Forms, sounds, tastes, etc. are resultants of counteracting and belligerant forces. Ther very existance of war proves that there is a state of Perfect Peace. It is what we call Nibbana.

– Ven. Narada Thera, “The Bodhisatta Ideal”