Salvation

This Catholic word means to be saved or granted access to a heavenly realm or to be born again. Spiritually, according to the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni, this is not necessary and in some cases, counter-productive or delusional. Our relative mind (or nature) is caught in a loop of emotional involvement with that which we believe or think, and all the phenomenal world which we are perceiving through our five senses. This emotional habit or preoccupation distorts what we perceive and think about to be real, when in fact it is totally illusory. This is called ignorance, stupidity, or bewilderment, and is the cause of immense pain and suffering in the human, animal, and spirit worlds, and destruction of our natural habitat. The antidote or medicinal remedy to this is acquired through the spiritual discipline of our mind, body and speech. This spiritual discipline basically, is to discover the mind, which is the heart’s true ultimate nature of clarity or awareness. This inherent or intrinsic state of awareness, breaks the habit of emotional involvement to what we think or believe and to what we perceive through the five senses as being real. Therefore, the result is the removal of all pain and suffering which we call Buddhahood, and some call salvation. Ah women!

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