..續本文上一頁 were deluded, He enlightened them. When they were inflamed with rage and lust, He gave them the cooling water of Truth. When they were forsaken and wretched. He extended to them the infinite love of His compassionate heart.
他是一個偉大的人物，在他的一生中發揮了不尋常的影響力。他個人的魅力、道德、威望、自信以及他所證悟的真理，使他衆望所歸。他身爲一位導師，很多人因爲得到他的教誨而覺悟。他吸引了貴、賤、貧、富、知識份子、文盲，男或女、僧或俗、貴族或平民。在他尋找邪惡的根源時，純淨和德行也找他了。他將所發現的真理無私的奉獻給所有的人。他的追隨者中有國王、貴族、軍人、商人、富翁、乞丐和娼妓，也有不少的宗教人士和迷惑者。當人們發生爭執時，他出面爲他們調解，當人們愚昧的時候，他爲他們開導，當人們憤怒、欲火在燃燒時，他以真理的淨水澆息他們的無明火。當他們悲傷和痛苦時，他以大慈悲心給予他們無限的愛和關懷。
He did not set out to remold the world. He was ”Lokavidu”
”The knower of the world.” He knew the world too well to have any illusions about its nature, or to believe that its laws could be completely refashioned to suit the desires of man. He knew that the world does not exist for the pleasure of the man, He knew about the nature of worldly conditions. He realized the vicissitude of worldly life. He knew the futility of human imagination or day dreaming about the world.
He did not encourage wishful-thinking in terms of establishing a worldly Utopia. Rather, He told each one of the Way by which one could later conquer one”s own world
the inner subjective world that is everyone”s private domain. In simple languages, He told us that the whole world is within us and the world is led by the mind and that mind must be trained and cleansed properly.
佛陀無意再塑造另一個世界，他擁有「一切知智」，他對這世界太了解了，他不再對世間的本質有所幻想，他不相信人類的欲望可以獲得滿足，他了解這世間不是爲了人類的喜樂而存在，他了解這世間的因果，他了解生命的無常，他了解人類對世間的理想或幻想是不實際的，他不鼓勵烏托邦式的思想。他告訴所有的人，人類可以改變自己的世界──內在的世界，那是每一個人的私有領域。簡要的說，佛陀告訴我們，世界就存在于我們的內心裏，世界是以心爲主導，而心需要經過適當的訓練與淨化。
His teaching was basically simple and meaningful: ”To put an end to evil; to fulfill all good; to purify the mind. This is the advice of all the Buddhas.” (Dhammapada, 183).
佛陀的教義簡短但是意義深長。
「一切惡都不要做，一切善都應該趕快去執行，自我調整和淨化自己的心意，這是所有佛陀所教導的。」《法句經》
He taught the people how to eradicate ignorance. He encouraged them to maintain freedom in the mind to think freely. Rigid rituals, rigid dogmas, blind faith and the caste system, all had no place in His way of life. All people were one in the eyes of the Buddha.
佛陀教導人們如何根除愚癡，他鼓勵人們自由思想和自由思考。僵化的儀式、呆板的教條、盲目的信仰和種姓、階級製度，在他的生命中不占有任何地位。在佛陀眼中，所有的人甚至一切衆生都是平等的。
By every test of what He said, did and was, He demonstrated Himself to be the preeminent man in His day. He declared a faith of service, a ministry of sacrifice and achievement. He advised us to start our life from today onwards as if it is the beginning of our life, and to fulfill our endless responsibilities and duties of daily existence here and now without depending on others to do it for us.
無論從那一個角度來驗證佛陀所言、所行，他確實是那個時代表現最傑出的人。他宣示了爲信念服務、爲弘法犧牲的觀念。他告誡人們，生命從現在開始就要向前邁進，在人類生命的開始，就肩負無盡的責任和義務，而這一切都不能靠他人來替我們執行或完成。
He gave the world a new explanation of the universe. He gave a new vision of eternal Happiness, the achievement of perfection in Buddhahood. He pointed out the way to the permanent state beyond all impermanence, the Way to Nibbana, the final deliverance from the misery of existence.
佛陀給宇宙一個新的诠釋，他提出了一個得到永恒的幸福，圓滿成就佛道的新概念。他指出一條從有限而達到無限的道路──涅槃，從無邊無際的痛苦世界達到最後的解脫。
His time was 2,500 years ago. Yet, even today this great Teacher is honored not only by the religious-minded people, He is also honored by atheists, historians, rationalists and intellectuals all over the world who have acknowledged Him as the Enlightened, most liberal minded and compassionate Teacher.
”Sukho Buddhanam Uppado.”
Happy is the birth of the Buddha. (Dhammapada 194).
佛陀生于二千五百多年以前，然而，直到今天，他那深廣的教義，和他身爲一個無神論者、曆史學家和理性論者，不但受到佛教徒的敬重，也受到所有知識份子的稱頌。他們都承認佛陀是一位覺悟者，是解脫心靈和具有大慈悲心的偉大導師。
「佛陀的出現令我們得到快樂。」《法句經》
Was Buddha an Incarnation of God
Never had the Buddha claimed that He was the son or a messenger of God.
佛陀從來未曾宣稱過他是神的化身，或是神的使者。
The Buddha was a unique human being who was self-Enli…
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