BLESSED IS HIS BIRTH.
BLESSED IS THE TEACHING OF THE WAY.
BLESSED IS THE UNDERSTANDING AMONG THOSE
WHO FOLLOW IT.
AND BLESSED IS THEIR DETERMINATION.
AND BLESSED ARE THEY WHO REVERE
THE MAN WHO AWAKES AND FOLLOWS THE WAY.
THEY ARE FREE FROM FEAR.
THEY ARE FREE.
THEY HAVE CROSSED OVER THE RIVER OF SORROW.
To meet a buddha is rare. To take refuge in a buddha is even more rare.
To follow, to live out the teachings of a buddha is even more rare.
Hence Buddha says: BLESSED IS HIS BIRTH. BLESSED IS THE TEACHING OF THE
WAY. A man who one day becomes a buddha, even his birth is blessed. His
coming into the world is a blessing to the world, to himself and to
others too. BLESSED IS THE TEACHING OF THE WAY. And then spontaneously
he starts teaching; it is a sharing. He has come home and he starts
calling others who are still wandering in the darkness.
BLESSED
IS THE UNDERSTANDING AMONG THOSE WHO FOLLOW IT. And not only the buddha
is blessed: blessed are those too who follow it. AND BLESSED IS THEIR
DETERMINATION. And blessed is the commitment, the involvement of
following the way, the dhamma.
AND BLESSED ARE THEY WHO REVERE THE MAN WHO AWAKES AND FOLLOWS THE WAY. THEY ARE FREE FROM FEAR. THEY ARE FREE.
To be free from fear is to be free. To be free from fear you need to be
free from desire. Desire keeps you afraid. Desire keeps you always
wavering: "Whether it is going to happen or not? Whether I am going to
make it this time or not?" If you succeed you are afraid -- somebody
will take it away from you. If you succeed in accumulating riches you
are worried, afraid: you can be robbed, they can be stolen. If you don't
succeed you are constantly in fear that "I am not of any worth." You
fall in your own eyes, you are trembling. To be free from desire is to
be free from fear.
Then one lives in the moment; neither the past is
one's concern nor the future. How can there be any fear? And Buddha
defines freedom as freedom from fear.
THEY HAVE CROSSED OVER
THE RIVER OF SORROW. Life unexamined, unobserved, unenlightened, is
nothing but a river of sorrow -- and we are all drowning in it. There is
only one boat to get to the other shore. The name of the boat is
awareness.........
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