Benefits of being a Buddhist

Resource:

1. How to Live as a Good Buddhist, Vol 1, by Dept. for the Promotion and Propagation of the Sasana.
2. The article being edited.


In this post, I would like to discuss about what the benefits of being a Buddhist are. Also why we should follow Buddha's way of liberation and why Buddhism is a truly path for holy peace in both mind and body.

Evils of Wrong Faith and Benefits of Right Faith

The Buddha teaches how reliance on wrong things has evils and how Right Faith creates benefits, in the Dhammapada Verse189, as follow:

“Resorting to prayer and worship to forests, trees, shrines, etc. does not bring security and freedom from all suffering. Such worship and prayers are not noble and sacred. So sorrows and suffering continue to trouble mankind.”

These evil results include wanderings in repeated cycles of births and deaths called Samsara. Life’s limitations and troubles continue to tie a man who follows such a type of salvation. Thus births, old age, illness and death are evils of wrong faith.

On the contrary, the Buddha points out the benefits of professing right faith.

“By taking refuge in the Three Gems, the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Samgha, a man is freed from all suffering” (Dhammapada Verse 191-192)

The benefits include, among others, noble conduct and supreme peace, leading to highest freedom (Nibbana). Therefore, all human beings should realize that only Right Faith helps the attainments of human and divine bliss, Brahma State of Happiness, and finally to the Supramundane State of Magga, Phala and Nibbana, the complete cessation of dukka or final liberation.