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The Path of Supreme Optimism

Posted by James Shaheen on 30 May 2010 in

Today's Daily Dharma:

Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living. This is the connotation of the classical statement that sums up the goal of Buddhist life: "Transform delusion into enlightenment." On the everyday level of experience, Shin Buddhists speak of this transformation as "bits of rubble turn into gold."

Taitetsu Unno, "Number One Fool" (Spring 2008)

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