India’s Benevolence to Thailand ❖ พระคุณที่อินเดียมีต่อไทย

~ By Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu ~

All of you who are interested in the Dharma,

Allow me to talk to you in the informal way with no formalities as are practised in the traditional “Dharma-desana”. The informal way which is now known as “Pathakatha-Dhamma”, being more simple, more economical and less tiresome.

The subject of today’s talk is “Thanks to those who brought Buddhism to us". Late this evening we have already dwelt on “Dharma-cakra”, the Wheel of Law; its benefits; how it helps allaying sufferings and unravelling problems, and whether it takes us. Our talk was more or less conclusive; the area of elaboration being on advantages to be derived from the practice of Buddhism; how, with Buddhism as our guidance, we can rid ourselves of sufferings and solve life’s problems, and thereby attaining satisfactory state attainable by man.

Benefits of Buddhism

Without Buddhism, we might have been unable to be what we are now. Without Buddhism, there would be no monks as we now see them sitting in the rear. Without Buddhism, there would neither be lay devotees, upasakas and upasikas, nor monks and novices, Bhikkhus and Samaneras. And, indeed, without Buddhism, there would be no that knowledge to overcome sufferings and to make ourselves calm and quiet. In short, without Buddhism, there would be nothing afore-mentioned, including our Suanmokkhabalaram, the Garden of Liberation. That we have what we see around us and that we are satisfied by them, is entirely due to the benign influence of Buddhism.

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India’s Benevolence to Thailand

Translated from the Thai by Karuna Kusalasaya

Second published in 2002 by Dhammadana Foundation

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