Great Throughts Treasury
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Mahāyāna Religious Ideal "Great Vehicle" NULL
One of the two major traditions of Buddhism existing today, a term for classification of Buddhist philosophies and practice
"The cause of all suffering is rooted in desire. If the desire is extinguished suffering has no foot hold."
"People under delusion accumulate tainted merits but do not tread the Path. They are under the impression that to accumulate merits and to tread the Path are one and the same thing. Though their merits for alms-giving and offerings are infinite They do not realize that the ultimate source of sin lies in the three poisons within their own mind. They expect to expiate their sins by accumulating merit Without knowing that felicities obtained in future lives have nothing to do with the expiation of sins. Why not get rid of the sin within our own mind, For this is true repentance?"