Buddhist Parables

3 hrs. 16 min.

Religion

Language Russian

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

Parables—brief, indirect, instructive stories about something unclear and hard to explain—are the wisdom of many generations, an integral part of human culture. It is an art of words that reaches straight into the heart.

Parables from different countries and peoples reflect different cultural and religious traditions, yet they always urge a person to reflect, carry within them kindness and love.

The founder of Buddhism, Gautama Buddha, is one of the brightest personalities in human history. Buddha broke his students’ minds of blind belief, because it prevented reason from soaring toward the spirit, and prompted them to search independently, to recognize within themselves the higher divine nature…

Buddhist parables—stories from the life of Buddha and his disciples—help one feel the wholeness of the world and lead to self-knowledge. This is Buddhist teaching without sacred texts: it speaks about the essence of the human mind, penetrating directly into its nature, and brings enlightenment.