Santipada

The Buddha’s words exem­plify peace, teach us peace, and lead to the ulti­mate peace of Nib­bana. It is a sad thing that in the com­plex­it­ies and con­tra­dic­tions of Buddhist his­tory, peace has some­times been sac­ri­ficed on the altar of Buddhist nation­al­ism. By ask­ing the hard ques­tions and accept­ing the answers fear­lessly we can arrive at the essen­tial, the true state of peace, for the sake of which all Buddhist eth­ics, med­it­a­tion, and wis­dom are taught.