First of all, I want to tell you that the Buddha has never claimed himself as a god but he was a human being like us. However, his mind is perfectly cultivated and his wisdom is highly developed by serious practice, not by believing in something. He assured that we can also cultivate our mind and develop our wisdom perfectly by following the Path discovered by Himself. The Path begins with Right Understanding. It does not begin with right faith or right belief.
Secondly, I do not think that the Buddha was interested in a certain God because He has never referred to the task of God. He has neither accepted nor rejected a God because His Teaching, Dhamma has nothing to do with God or belief or faith. Therefore, there is no role of God in the Buddha’s Teaching. Faith or belief can also do nothing because you have to try to rightly understand things as they are.
Therefore, the Buddha begins His Teaching with Right Understanding followed by Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration. This is called Noble Eightfold Path that can encourage and inspire us for how we should live to be happy.
You can see that there is much, much, much practice in this Noble Eightfold Path that can develop our wisdom that can lead us to the ultimate happiness that will never be destroyed by anything and anyone. This is the ultimate goal the Buddha wanted to give us not by his supernatural power but by instructing us how to follow the Path to achieve happiness.
See now. You have to do yourself for your happiness; the Buddha showed the only Path how to follow so no God is necessary. Neither is God rejected nor accepted by the Buddha and by the Dhamma, His Teaching. I’m the Sangha so I do not not need to reject believing in God or I do not need to accept believing in God.
For me as the Sangha, there is no problem with believer or non-believer, with theist or atheist, and even with Buddhist or non-Buddhist. I’m sure that if you follow the Noble Eightfold Path with any name put on you, your quality of life, your skill of living and your way of understanding will be clearly, purely and perfectly developed.
Then, you will be really happy. This is what the Buddha wanted to share with us and this is also the aim, the goal and the purpose of every human being. I hope it will make you sense.
Questioner:– Whooo… Oh! Yes. You are really a wise monk. The answer is perfect and more than we thought. Thank you so much, Sir for giving us such a precious time and teaching.
ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့ “ဪ — ဓမၼကိုႀကိဳက္ႏွစ္သက္သူေတြဟာ ပံုစံသာကြဲခ်င္ကြဲမယ္ ႏွလံုးသားေတြကေတာ့ မကြဲမျပားတစ္သားတည္း ရွိေနၾကတာပါလား”လို႔ အေျဖတစ္ခုထြက္လာပါတယ္။
