A Guide to Buddhism
for a young person who has reached the age of reasoning

Buddhism is all about questions.

Buddhist science is a practical investigation into our true nature, using logic. It is guaranteed to make you smarter!
Buddhism is about questioning reality in a virtual reality setting. So the question to ask is, “What is real, and what is seemingly real?”

Real is that which never changes.
Unreal is that which changes.
Seemingly means we believe it to be real, when it is not.

Information about everything we encounter through the bodily senses must go via brain, to the mind consciousness, which is where it is experienced. Quite a journey, although it seems spontaneous. It is ultimately experienced in the mind…but not by the mind. We have a mind, but we are not the mind.

It is because of mental stimulation that the mind seems to be in control. It’s bit like saying, “My computer controls me”. On an everyday level it does, if you do not know how to turn the thing off! It is just like the thoughts and emotions going around in your mind…they take over.

And guess what? These thoughts and emotions have no reality as they are changeable, coming and going – although they can appear to be extremely powerful. In fact, everything is changeable, and so only has a seeming reality. If we are not aware of these thoughts and emotions, they can create an exaggerated personality and control us for a lifetime; we are imprisoned by them. Look around you…

You are reading these words which are being spoken in your mind. So where are you? You are the pure awareness which is just watching, merely noting, just being – without commenting. This never changes – it was there when you were a young child. Thoughts change but awareness does not. Awareness may be directed towards this or that, but awareness never changes. This is the magic of Buddhist science.

That which is seen in the mind has no reality,
it is a seeming reality, a virtual reality.
That which is seeing is the reality.

Buddhism is looking.
Not believing.

That will make you smarter!

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