This book is dedicated to “you” and the complete elimination, destruction, and cessation of suffering or “discontentedness” of the mind. Thus, this book is dedicated to the elimination of discontentedness and the suffering that it causes in the entire world.
The Teachings in this book series, with some effort on your part, will lead you to everlasting peace - a peaceful mind and a peaceful life. It’s your personal choices, with these Teachings serving as a guide, that will bring you these results.
We are all walking towards the darkness or towards the light. Which direction you walk is completely your choice.
This book and Teachings are meant to be a primer to help you establish a framework of understanding to ultimately learn, reflect, practice and attain the results of Gotama Buddha’s Teachings - Enlightenment.
Gotama Buddha’s Teachings are not based on “belief”. His Teachings are meant to be practiced so that you can independently observe the truth to acquire wisdom. A Buddha has already done the hard work of figuring out how to attain Enlightenment. You just need to learn and practice his Teachings to improve the condition of the mind and your life.
Understanding how to be an independent active learner, while knowing when and how to seek guidance, is an important quality of mind to be successful on The Path to Enlightenment. You will need guidance from a Teacher.
When you learn these Teachings, and then practice them, you will obtain “wisdom”. You will see the “truth” for yourself without needing to have “belief”. In this way, you will liberate the mind with Teachings that allow you to acquire “wisdom”. The same wisdom that Gotama Buddha understood during his lifetime that leads to Enlightenment.
The newly acquired wisdom will gradually improve how you view the world through the mind and how you interact in the world.
It is important that you do not believe anything in this book series and that instead you practice these Teachings to determine the truth for yourself, with the guidance of Teachers. The mind will not be liberated through belief but instead, the mind will be liberated through observing the truth in these Teachings to acquire wisdom. The wisdom you acquire will allow you to function in life through the truths that you discover in a dedicated and well developed practice of these Teachings.