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**Quick$bux** · 01-12-2011, 07:32 AM

Yes, we have to practice the Dhamma to overcome dukkha for ourselves. The Buddha spoke of himself not as a saviour, but as a doctor, with the Dhamma as the medicine.

That's it. A saviour, to be so, is needed of hopeless people incapable of doing things by themselves. To be so, he or she needs believers. I think this is not the case for the Buddha. The way of the Buddha is about understanding and the practice of that understanding and then to discern about. We have to test by ourself each one of the teachings. There is no other way. Also there is no such thing to be saved about. But just to understand Dukkha, its origin and the way to cease it. Christians are to be saved. Not the once that practice the teachings of the historical Buddha.

01-12-2011, 07:32 AM	#7
Quick$bux Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 571 Senior Member	Yes, we have to practice the Dhamma to overcome dukkha for ourselves. The Buddha spoke of himself not as a saviour, but as a doctor, with the Dhamma as the medicine. That's it. A saviour, to be so, is needed of hopeless people incapable of doing things by themselves. To be so, he or she needs believers. I think this is not the case for the Buddha. The way of the Buddha is about understanding and the practice of that understanding and then to discern about. We have to test by ourself each one of the teachings. There is no other way. Also there is no such thing to be saved about. But just to understand Dukkha, its origin and the way to cease it. Christians are to be saved. Not the once that practice the teachings of the historical Buddha.
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