... one". For the next 45 years of his life, Shakyamuni preached to people around the country and asked them to follow his teachings. "The point of the teachings is to control your own mind. Keep your mind from greed, and you will keep your body right, your mind pure and your words faithful. Always thinking of the transience of your life ... some also confess to Buddha. However, the purpose of confessing a sin or wrongdoing is to admit to oneself what one has done and not to Buddha. In this self realization process, one becomes aware of what he or she has done in order to prevent oneself fr...

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... ranks with any other science known to man. He described life to be one and indivisible. Man, he declared, can become Buddha, Enlightened, by the principle of Enlightenment within. This process is to simply become what you are, to develop to the fully innate Buddha-Mind by destroying the ignorance, sin, and evils of human nature. According to the Buddha, all ... tells one how to reach this state. The fourth truth tells how this can be accomplished through the eight-fold path, providing us with a path and teaches us what practical steps to take in order to attain Nirvana. The eight-fold p...

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