Seeking Meaning and Value in Life, Taking Responsibility for One's Own Life
What is the purpose of human life?
When alone, I often wonder, why do people live?
Where do I come from, and where do I go when I die?
Our lives begin as children, growing up under the education of our parents, studying diligently, and later working hard after growing up. We work to earn money, live a life, get married, and have children, and then educate them like we were.
Life has become a simple repetition, a repetition under different environments and survival conditions.
In this repetitive life, how should people live?
Sometimes I feel very hesitant...
When I'm hesitant, I want to find a quiet place to sit.
In this era of rampant materialism, temples are a spiritual oasis for me.
Perhaps many people are the same as me, longing for a spiritual oasis deep within their hearts.
One day, by a chance, I opened a Buddhist scripture, and thus entered a completely new world.
Since then, I no longer doubted life’s purpose...
I finally understood why people live and what they should do to live a worthwhile life?
Of course, understanding also takes time...
I have worked as a financial officer for more than 10 years, and my habit of rationally and objectively viewing problems has become ingrained. So I used an audit perspective to study the Buddhist scriptures—are they true or false?
Finally, I deduced that the Buddhist scriptures are true!
Reason one: Generally, deception and fraud are always for the purpose of gaining money or pleasure.
Buddha was a prince, and he was a real historical figure. He wasn't fabricated. He didn't need money or beautiful women. He abandoned all pursuit of these things, sat in meditation in the snowy mountains for six years, eating one grain of rice a day, and had no desires.
After finding the truth of life (enlightenment), he would eat one meal a day, spend one night, and had no desire for anyone or anything.
If he asked for nothing from you, how could he deceive you? He has no motive!
Reason two: People are hardest to let go of is emotion, especially family affection. Parents will always reserve the best for their children.
Buddha's son left with him, his brother left with him, his father had four sons, and each had two sons, one of whom remained to be king, and the others left with him. He also raised his mother who brought him up.
If this worldly wealth and honor were real, why would he let his son leave, without wealth or heirs?
If everything he said is false, he wouldn’t have so many followers.
Even his brother Ananda wouldn’t help him collect the scriptures and pass them down through the ages.
If everything he said is false, his family wouldn’t vouch for him. And there were 1,250 disciples following him at the time.
If everything he said is false, wouldn’t many people be misled?
Reason three: Actually, everyone speaks, everyone says, is their own experience, their own insight, their own perception of life and the world. Different perceptions lead to different sayings.
This resonates deeply with me. As a teacher, I need to prepare lessons, and when I first started, I had to prepare for 2 hours, I needed 1-2 days to prepare because at that time I had little reflection. Now that I have a lot of reflection, I only need 1-2 hours to prepare for a 2-hour lesson. Sometimes, just using a few charts and tables can explain for 2 days.
Why? Because it's due to a lot of reflection.
When I saw the vast Buddhist scriptures, I was stunned.
Complete Collection of the Great Treasury of All Kinds of Knowledgetakes about 5 years to read, and this is only the translated part, and when the Buddha teaches, he doesn’t need to prepare lessons, he answers questions on the spot, and later they were compiled into scriptures.
Like the Analects of Confucius. Confucius didn't write his lessons, they were compiled by his students later.
This makes me realize one thing:
That is, these contents are naturally expressed from people’s hearts.
If this isn’t a natural expression of a person’s inner self, it's impossible to compile so much content.
I truly believed the Buddhist scriptures are true through understanding these three points.
People’s cognition is limited, you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Buddha is a person who has lived a life, he wouldn’t deceive us!
Buddha's life is a life.
Our lives are also lives.
Perhaps Buddha’s life will point us to a direction, light up a lamp for our lives...
Tell us how to live a worthwhile life.
Where do we come from
Where do we go when we die......
