Question: What changes have taken place in your life since you first took the three refuges?
ANSWER: Like countless millions of others over the last 2500 years, I have found that the Buddha’s teachings have made sense out of a difficult world. They have given meaning to what was meaningless life. They have given me a humane and compassionate ethics with which to lead my life and they have shown me how I can attain a state of purity and perfection in the next life. A poet in ancient India once wrote of the Buddha:
I agree with these words completely.
ANSWER: Like countless millions of others over the last 2500 years, I have found that the Buddha’s teachings have made sense out of a difficult world. They have given meaning to what was meaningless life. They have given me a humane and compassionate ethics with which to lead my life and they have shown me how I can attain a state of purity and perfection in the next life. A poet in ancient India once wrote of the Buddha:
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