This is it. Realisation, I have realised. What did I tread, what
did I realised?
I realised that when I am hungry I eat plain rice, and if it
does not taste as good I include some vegetables, save the meat for
the vegans will oppose. What else? If you are thirsty, take the
soup if offered, if no soup was given, get some plain water. If
your house has A&W, that will be just as fine so long as you
don't consume in excess.
The Buddha taught a path, and it was the main and primary path.
The Noble Eightfold path. That of Right Understanding, Right
Intention, Right Action, Right Speech, Right Livelihood, Right
Effort, Right Concentration and Right argh. I forgot the last, my
teacher taught me that a lifetime of memorisation is nowhere
compared to a moment of experience.
Science is one thing, faith is another. There is nowhere in the
Buddha's teachings did He asked a student to dispense with faith.
All and all, you need to believe in science first in order to prove
it, and as I learned in Secondary 3, all Science experiments do not
reveal results that coincide exactly by the textbook. So, if Newton
found that apples drop from trees due to gravity, and the Buddha
said that such and such is Mind Transmission, as in the case of
Mahakassapa, the first Zen Patriach, did either Newton show you the
thing called Gravity, or was the Mind ever to be found?
Before I go astray from my discussion, still, as the Buddha
recommended in the Kalama Sutta too, He did not tell the Kalamas to
disbelieve everything. He just said you needed reference points,
and sometimes one man's medicine is another man's poison.
Orange is my favourite colour, what is yours?
Hear me, the moderator made sense, but I could not resist =)