@Jessica, thank you for these questions although I do not know if I can answer them well.
1) Answer to the first question; well, it is true that neither do we understand the Buddha completely nor do they their God. But still we have many reasons to believe in a complete enlightenment, which are of course mainly inferential as we ourselves have not met the Buddha. Lets talk in terms of ground, path and result. The ground is the ever changing nature of sentient beings, none of our emotions or condition is our reality as they are no more in the next moment. We find that the afflictions are not always there and that they all come from causes and…
Dear Rinpoche, thank you for these wonderful teachings, I'm enjoying very much and I learn a lot. In this last teaching 2 questions came up to me, and I think they are related in a way, the first is about blind faith in a creator God, as you said people believe without any clarity, and I agree the buddhist path has a more thorough way of describing causes and conditions, but at the end, we also have to have faith in the path to enlightenment without knowing exactly what enlightenment is, as we are not there yet. Could you please clarify this a bit for me? It's a big issue as people come to the centre and ask about the…
@Jessica, thank you for these questions although I do not know if I can answer them well.
1) Answer to the first question; well, it is true that neither do we understand the Buddha completely nor do they their God. But still we have many reasons to believe in a complete enlightenment, which are of course mainly inferential as we ourselves have not met the Buddha. Lets talk in terms of ground, path and result. The ground is the ever changing nature of sentient beings, none of our emotions or condition is our reality as they are no more in the next moment. We find that the afflictions are not always there and that they all come from causes and…
Dear Rinpoche, thank you for these wonderful teachings, I'm enjoying very much and I learn a lot. In this last teaching 2 questions came up to me, and I think they are related in a way, the first is about blind faith in a creator God, as you said people believe without any clarity, and I agree the buddhist path has a more thorough way of describing causes and conditions, but at the end, we also have to have faith in the path to enlightenment without knowing exactly what enlightenment is, as we are not there yet. Could you please clarify this a bit for me? It's a big issue as people come to the centre and ask about the…