If we study the Four Noble Truths with the help of these references and explanations, we get a fairly good and accurate account of the essential teachings of the Buddha according to the original texts.

There is a teaching story inherent in Néel's experience as it is evocative of the English rendering of the famous instruction of Zen Master Linji Yixuan: " If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

If he would be a true follower of the Buddha, how would he have played such a mean trick with him?

Then the Buddha Amitabha says to these bodhisattvas: ' If you wish to come and be born in my realm, you must always call me to mind again and again, you must always keep this thought in mind without letting up, and thus you will succeed in coming to be born in my realm.

Topics of the book include: “ The Pope: A Scandal and a Mystery ,” “ How does the Pope Pray ?” “ Does God Really Exist ?” “ Proof: Is it Still Valid ?” “ If God Exists, Why is He Hiding ?” “ Is Jesus the Son of God ?” “ Why Is There So Much Evil in the World ?” “ What Does To Save Mean ?” “ Why So Many Religions ?” “ Buddha ?” “ Muhammad ?” “ Judaism ?” “ What Is the New Evangelization ?” “ Is There Really Hope in the Young ?” “ Was God at Work in the Fall of Communism ?” “ Is Only Rome Right ?” “ In Search of Lost Unity ,” “ A Qualitative Renewal ,” “ The Reaction of the World ,” “ Does Eternal Life Exist ?” “ Human Rights ,” “ The Mother of God ,” and “ Be Not Afraid .”

If Christ is true, Krishna and Buddha are also true.

If built, it will be one the largest Buddha statues in the world, only one meter shorter than the Spring Temple Buddha in China's Henan province.

If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.

If the mark is encountered again and the painter is traveling in the same direction, then the painter knows that it is safe to paint the square with the mark and to continue in the same direction.

If an obstacle is encountered on the line, the heavier mass of a locomotive is less likely to be deviated from its normal course.

If God lacks any one of these qualities, the existence of evil is explicable, and so the problem of evil will not be encountered.

If an inconsistency is encountered, the program can immediately halt, so that the bug can be located and fixed.

If a following train encountered a burning fusee it was not to pass until the fusee burned out.

If the proportioning valve is left out or functions improperly, the result is a car that stops only with the front discs during careful stops, which are most of the stops encountered in daily driving.

If a loss of radio communications were to be encountered during VFR conditions, or if VFR conditions are encountered after loss of communication with the ground and other aircraft, the pilot of the aircraft shall continue the flight under VFR and land as soon as practicable.

If they encountered an enemy troop or vehicle concentration, they would assume a defensive posture, lay down as much covering fire as they could, designate the targets for requested air and artillery assets.

If there were sharp contradictions in Cuban society under the Autenticos, the circumstances differed only in degree from the complexities and dynamics encountered in free societies everywhere ( how often did Cubans compare Havana with Chicago?

If encountered anywhere in such a text stream, U + FEFF is to be interpreted as a " zero width no-break space ".

If the largest integer to be encountered can be accommodated by the ' faster ' data type, defining the variables as that type will result in faster execution-since even a non-optimizing compiler will, in-effect, be ' forced ' to choose appropriate instructions that will execute faster than would have been the case with data types associated with ' slower ' instructions.

* If we encountered a gcd ( v, n ) at some stage that was neither 1 nor n, then we are done: it is a non-trivial factor of n.

If a female thus encountered finds a male to her liking, she will visit to see whether they get along well and inspect the nesting sites he can offer.

If interference was encountered, the smaller coil would be slid further out of the larger, loosening the coupling and narrowing the bandwidth, to reject the interfering signal.

If it refers to Sauron's most recent return to Mordor, the Mouth of Sauron would have served Sauron for some 68 years when he encountered Aragorn and Gandalf.

If serious sickness is encountered, descent to a lower elevation is considered to be mandatory unless other circumstances present greater danger.

If two solid yellow bars and two dashed yellow bars are encountered, this indicates a holding position for a runway intersection ahead ; runway holding lines must never be crossed without permission.

If the word " district " is encountered in the context of ancient Chinese history, then the word is a translation for xian, another type of administrative division in China.

If two successive off-curve points were encountered, then an implicit on-curve point was assumed to lie halfway between them.

If one is unsure of whether one has encountered poison oak or not, an old adage states, " Leaves of three, leave them be.

If the squire encountered any of his tenants on the road with sheep or cattle, his coachman had orders not to stop or slow down ; if people did not hurry out of his path they were mown down.

If the account is even historical, Saint Thomas may have encountered one of the later kings who bore the same title.

If flying under instrument flight rules ( IFR ) conditions, and VFR conditions exist or are encountered after the failure, the flight should be continued in VFR conditions and the pilot shall land as soon as practicable.

If Angulimala encountered his mother instead, he would slay her as his thousandth victim and fall into hell for millennia as a matricide.

If Gombrich's thesis could be conclusively proven, it would establish the Angulimala Sutta as likely being the earliest known documentation of tantric practices in South Asia, about which very little is known before the 7th century CE.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

If you are a nonresident alien and a resident of Puerto Rico, your return is also due June 15, 1962, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of your fiscal year.

If A taxpayer dies, the executor, administrator, or legal representative must file the final return for the decedent on or before the 15th day of the 4th month following the close of the deceased taxpayer's normal tax year.

If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.

If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.

If you wish to budget closely on transportation, saving your extra dollars to indulge in luxuries, one agency lists the small Fiat 500 at only $1.26 a day plus $.03 a kilometer and the Fiat 2100 Station Wagon, seating six, at just $1.10 a day and $.105 a kilometer.

If you will be using your car more than fifteen days, which isn't all unlikely, the daily rates drop quite sharply to $.86 a day for the Fiat 500 and to an infinitesimal $.30 a day for the Fiat 2100 Station Wagon.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

If you want to spend another day in the State Department -- another day -- you get in there and tell that captain what I told you ''.

If two justices are appointed on the same day, the older is designated the senior Justice of the two.

If he intended an attack along the Moselle the Duke must now turn west, but, instead, the following day the army crossed to the right bank of the Rhine, ( pausing to add 5, 000 waiting Hanoverians and Prussians ).

" ... To this he said: " If that is so you will one day be a force.

If a sheet is for a single day, it easily shows the date and the weekday.

If so, the patient is asked for name, current location, and current day and time.

If it falls on a Saturday, any businesses normally closed that day will generally dedicate the following Monday as a day off.

If a new player feels that he or she needs assistance in learning the rules of craps, it is recommended to approach an empty craps table at a slow time of day ( for example, between 9 a. m. and 11 a. m .).