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**TheLucyLee** · 05-26-2011, 10:23 PM

Well, lets say it is not... there are other truths around there... the metaphysical entities that are here and there hearing mantras and helping people, the Buddhas that will come and go for the Kali era, the universal consciousness and the intelligent design are, by sure, truths at the face of faithful people... but as the Buddha once said...

"In the same way, monks, those things that I have known with direct knowledge but have not taught are far more numerous [than what I have taught]. And why haven't I taught them? Because they are not connected with the goal, do not relate to the rudiments of the holy life, and do not lead to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding. That is why I have not taught them.

"And what have I taught? 'This is stress... This is the origination of stress... This is the cessation of stress... This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress': This is what I have taught. [...]

Simsapa Sutta: The Simsapa Leaves (SN56.31)
In terms of this... it is a universal truth.

05-26-2011, 10:23 PM	#14
TheLucyLee Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 419 Senior Member	Well, lets say it is not... there are other truths around there... the metaphysical entities that are here and there hearing mantras and helping people, the Buddhas that will come and go for the Kali era, the universal consciousness and the intelligent design are, by sure, truths at the face of faithful people... but as the Buddha once said... "In the same way, monks, those things that I have known with direct knowledge but have not taught are far more numerous [than what I have taught]. And why haven't I taught them? Because they are not connected with the goal, do not relate to the rudiments of the holy life, and do not lead to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding. That is why I have not taught them. "And what have I taught? 'This is stress... This is the origination of stress... This is the cessation of stress... This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress': This is what I have taught. [...] Simsapa Sutta: The Simsapa Leaves (SN56.31) In terms of this... it is a universal truth.
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