<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=501804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lord Buddha the Guide</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was born in Lumbin, <br>Delivered his first sermon in Saranath, <br>And shed his body in Kushinara, <br>The Lord Buddha, the Light of Asia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is <br>Siddhartha, the one who accomplishes, <br>Tathagata, the perfect one, <br>Bhudhisattva, the enlightened one, <br>Sakhya Muni, the ascetic of Sakhya clan, <br>Goutama, the ascetic, <br>And Jina, the conqueror.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Truths are four: <br>The existence of sorrow; <br>There is cause for it; <br>Cessation of the cause; <br>The conquest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rules are five: <br>Abstinence from injury; <br>Abstinence from stealing; <br>Abstinence of wrongful indulgence; <br>Abstinence of falsehood; <br>Abstinence from intoxication.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paths are eightfold: <br>Right understanding; <br>Right thoughts; <br>Right speech; <br>Right action; <br>Right living; <br>Right effort; <br>Right mindfulness; <br>Right contemplation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Self indulgence and <br>Self mortification, <br>Are two extreme steps; <br>Choose the middle path.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To eat and drink, to live <br>Is not evil.<br>To do to be merry is evil.<br>To nurse the health is not evil.<br>To do the opposite is evil.<br>The one who conquers the all<br>But not one’s self, conquers nil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Buddha ruled ‘the Hindus’<br>Before Rama and Krishna ruled.<br>His shrines had been replaced<br>With the shrines of Hindus, <br>Which were again replaced<br>With the shrines of Islam.<br>If Buddha is to return to his place, <br>Rama has no place to return to.<br>26.05.2002, pakd</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=501804" data-title="Lord Buddha the Guide de Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar" data-description="He was born in Lumbin, Delivered his first sermon in Saranath, And shed his body in Kushinara, The Lord Buddha, the Light of Asia. He is Siddhartha, the one who accomplishes, Tathagata, the perfect one, Bhudhisattva, the enlightened one, S..."></div> </div> </div>

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