The Essence of Buddha: The Path to Enlightenment

This book has a lot of useful information. I've been recommending it to others. I like it so much that I will read it again. I learned about people who read the same books twice.

Excellent book. Great quality paper

The Essence of Buddha: The Path to Enlightenment by Ryuho Okawa was exactly a read that I needed. I was looking for a book about Buddha's teachings, and I found this one. This book set a path toward enlightenment, with Budda's travels being explained and how he, himself, found it. I don't agree with all of his journeys and ideals of leaving everything, including family behind to achieve it. I did find the Eightfold path, Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration. I was looking for something that can help me deal with physical and emotional pain, and though I am not Buddhist, I found that much of the information was extremely helpful. I know that his teachings have been around for centuries, and some still practice his teachings. It was the one thing I was looking for as I was trying to find something to keep faith and beliefs, without wanting something in return. This was my personal read, but I do recommend it to those, even if you're not interested in Buddha, you could be interested in some of the journey on the path to enlightenment. I just wanted my soul to feel better.

The title says it best. Buddhism lifestyle in a nutshell. Treat others as you would like to be treated. I enjoyed this book.

Enjoyed this book

Great read, nice bookExactly what the seller said it would be...

I'm half way through and loving this read. As a Christian I like getting other perspectives and believe their is wisdom from God all over in many forms. This book has some serious gems!

The beginning of the book was very insightful when explaining the history and philosophy behind Buddhism but as you go on its almost like an add for his "Happy Science" group and there's too much philosophy that is supposed to be taken as fact that I personally do not agree with. So the fact that there was a debate about Einsteins theory of relativity being false just was incorrect and wasn't a valid argument especially the claim that "Einsteins theory will be overturned when spiritual velocity is discovered.... it will show that the velocity of light cannot be the ultimate criterion because it's is not constant." This argument just was not for me (smoke who has read several books on quantum mechanics and physics). Overall it was an alright book but I'm left with only a little understanding of Buddhism and will need to pick up another book.

Good quality with prompt delivery

This is simplest and understanding form of essence of buddha.. However i need more details about Buddhism..Must read one time those who are seeking to know about Buddhism..Thank you Ryuho okawa..

If you are interested in finding out more about Buddhism, this book explains the origins, meditation and dimensional levels. It gives good insight into the inner peace that Buddhism can help a person can attain.

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