When you open your eyes, you notice many things, but even with my eyes half-open, I so notice the suffering within the world. The injustice, fear, loss, disease, pain; they all plague humanity. If there so was a way to end this suffering, only one path claims to know; this is Buddhism.
I have been following the scripts of Buddhism, and practicing Zen for about a year now, but never have I felt such a strong urge to find the cesation of suffering. My own family suffers greatly, each to their own pain. But my problem is, they seek no inner peace, only the means to happiness outside of themselves, to ease the pain with material or exterior things, but suffering is withing, so there can be no external healing from suffering.
And so, after seeing the pain people go through, knowing pain myself, and seeing the pain people are willing to put themselves through, I vow here and now to the whole world that I will follow Buddhism untill I attain enlightenment, and end suffering in myself, so then I may aid others in ending their suffering. I will follow the lead of Sidhartha Gautama, for he was surely a great man.
Thank you Sidhartha...
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