The Gospel of Buddha Summary

You'll learn

• 1The ego is not a sanctuary to be protected but a veil that creates the very misery it seeks to escape.
• 2Suffering is the shadow cast by the illusion of a permanent self and the desperate attempt to possess things that are inherently impermanent.
• 3True immortality is found not in the preservation of the individual identity but in the liberation from it.
• 4Virtue is not a sudden miracle or a leap of faith but a slow accumulation of small, repeated acts of kindness and discipline.
• 5Peace is not a destination to be reached but the natural result of removing the false attachments of the grasping self.
• 6No external savior or teacher can purify another person because the mind is both the architect of its own bondage and the only key to its release.
• 7The only indestructible force in the universe is the blessing of a good deed and the alignment of the heart with universal Truth.