Four Challenges of Buddhism
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I received the following from Shambahla publications regarding a new book on the market in December, What Makes You Not a Buddhist, by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, a modern Tibetan Buddhist master. According to the advertisement, the author presents the reader with four challenges; if you can answer these four questions in the affirmative, the author says, "Go ahead, call yourself a Buddhist."
I received the following from Shambahla publications regarding a new book on the market in December, What Makes You Not a Buddhist, by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, a modern Tibetan Buddhist master. According to the advertisement, the author presents the reader with four challenges; if you can answer these four questions in the affirmative, the author says, "Go ahead, call yourself a Buddhist."
1. Can you accept that all things are impermanent and that there is no
essential substance or concept that is permanent?
2. Can you accept that all emotions bring pain and suffering and that
there is no emotion that is purely pleasurable?
3. Can you accept that all phenomena are illusory and empty?
4. Can you accept that enlightenment is beyond concepts; that it´s
not a perfect blissful heaven, but instead a release from delusion?
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