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On Happiness and Wisdom.
We all find it important to be happy; and it is easy to be happy, but it is an activity to make oneself actually happy.
Happiness does not always come just like that out of nowhere. Just like unhappiness or suffering comes from some reason. Happiness is the contrary of suffering. Our most well-known and followed Holy teacher Jesus the Christ, which means actually: any unexpected deliverer, savior or rescuer; acknowledged the suffering of the people of his religion, which was Judaism. He saw that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth would leave the whole world blind and speechless. He came therefore with His New Message of Love, and was rejected and killed.
600 years before Jesus there was another teacher who saw the suffering of his people, and he found The Way to stop the suffering. He was one who had achieved a state of perfect enlightenment, a holy man, a holy person, a saint, a person of exceptional holiness, which was the Buddha. He taught Wisdom as a way to overcome suffering. Western scholars have pointed out a number of curious parallels between certain passages given in the Buddhist Astasahasrika-prajnaparamita-sutra and the Christian Revelation, and here I quote of the Astasahasrika-prajnaparamita Sutra:
“Perfect Wisdom spreads her radiance…and is worthy of worship. Spotless, the whole world cannot stain her. In her we may find refuge; her works are most excellent; she brings us to safety under the sheltering wings of enlightenment. She brings light to the blind, that all fears and calamities may be dispelled…and she scatters the gloom and darkness of delusion. She leads those who have gone astray to the right path. She is omniscience; without beginning or end is Perfect Wisdom, who has Emptiness as her characteristic mark; she is mother of the bodhisattvas*. She cannot be struck down, the protector of the unprotected.”
The word marked by the asterisk* explained here:*Those who are allowed to see the truth under the agreement that they will communicate it to others, also: An enlightened being who, out of compassion, forgoes nirvana in order to save others, or literally an "enlightenment being"- to keep free all beings from the coils of suffering.
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