Learning Buddhism

Buddhism is learning how to live. This is a very difficult task, and so it takes most of us most of our lives to learn. It is a never-ending process. Although when we are children, we imagine a world of adults, confident, knowing everything, capable, and all-powerful, we find ourselves as adults not knowing how we should lead our lives, and constantly making mistakes in what we do and in how we treat others and ourselves. We search for how we should live, and it is a shock when we discover that all the important decisions in our lives rest with us alone. In the end, there is no-one to tell us what to do but ourselves. So we are always trying to decide how we should act.