..续本文上一页 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.
他是一个伟大的人物，在他的一生中发挥了不寻常的影响力。他个人的魅力、道德、威望、自信以及他所证悟的真理，使他众望所归。他身为一位导师，很多人因为得到他的教诲而觉悟。他吸引了贵、贱、贫、富、知识份子、文盲，男或女、僧或俗、贵族或平民。在他寻找邪恶的根源时，纯净和德行也找他了。他将所发现的真理无私的奉献给所有的人。他的追随者中有国王、贵族、军人、商人、富翁、乞丐和娼妓，也有不少的宗教人士和迷惑者。当人们发生争执时，他出面为他们调解，当人们愚昧的时候，他为他们开导，当人们愤怒、欲火在燃烧时，他以真理的净水浇息他们的无明火。当他们悲伤和痛苦时，他以大慈悲心给予他们无限的爱和关怀。
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.
佛陀无意再塑造另一个世界，他拥有「一切知智」，他对这世界太了解了，他不再对世间的本质有所幻想，他不相信人类的欲望可以获得满足，他了解这世间不是为了人类的喜乐而存在，他了解这世间的因果，他了解生命的无常，他了解人类对世间的理想或幻想是不实际的，他不鼓励乌托邦式的思想。他告诉所有的人，人类可以改变自己的世界──内在的世界，那是每一个人的私有领域。简要的说，佛陀告诉我们，世界就存在于我们的内心里，世界是以心为主导，而心需要经过适当的训练与净化。
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).
佛陀的教义简短但是意义深长。
「一切恶都不要做，一切善都应该赶快去执行，自我调整和净化自己的心意，这是所有佛陀所教导的。」《法句经》
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.
佛陀教导人们如何根除愚痴，他鼓励人们自由思想和自由思考。僵化的仪式、呆板的教条、盲目的信仰和种姓、阶级制度，在他的生命中不占有任何地位。在佛陀眼中，所有的人甚至一切众生都是平等的。
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.
无论从那一个角度来验证佛陀所言、所行，他确实是那个时代表现最杰出的人。他宣示了为信念服务、为弘法牺牲的观念。他告诫人们，生命从现在开始就要向前迈进，在人类生命的开始，就肩负无尽的责任和义务，而这一切都不能靠他人来替我们执行或完成。
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.
佛陀给宇宙一个新的诠释，他提出了一个得到永恒的幸福，圆满成就佛道的新概念。他指出一条从有限而达到无限的道路──涅槃，从无边无际的痛苦世界达到最后的解脱。
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，他那深广的教义，和他身为一个无神论者、历史学家和理性论者，不但受到佛教徒的敬重，也受到所有知识份子的称颂。他们都承认佛陀是一位觉悟者，是解脱心灵和具有大慈悲心的伟大导师。
「佛陀的出现令我们得到快乐。」《法句经》
Was Buddha an Incarnation of God
Never had the Buddha claimed that He was the son or a messenger of God.
佛陀从来未曾宣称过他是神的化身，或是神的使者。
The Buddha was a unique human being who was self-Enli…
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