True Dharma International Buddhist Mission, Inc.

Extending Compassion to All Beings Everywhere

Greetings and Good Health to All of You, My Friends!

Thanks for coming to this site. I hope you will feel that your time spent here was worthwhile and that you will feel a little better for the effort. Please share your love and wisdom with others for the sake of our world.

To me, the essence of True Dharma (saddharma) is simply returning to our kind heart, our basic goodness, and cherishing others naturally. When we deviate from our essential goodness, our free and enlightened Buddha-nature, we get in trouble and wind up hurting ourselves and others. Do we really want to do that?

Deep down inside, everyone wants to be happy. We want others to be happy, too, whether we know it or not! According to Buddha, the source of our suffering (dukkha) is craving (tanha) for pleasures alone without considering others. By loosening the ties of craving, our clinging to self-interest and worldly values, we can put out (nirodha, nibbana) the flames of desire and achieve freedom from samsara, the cycle of birth, sickness, aging and death that comprise our individual and collective misery. By living according to the practical guidelines of right understanding, right action and right mental cultivation that are developed in the Eightfold Path (magga), Buddha taught that we can achieve peace, profound wisdom and ultimate happiness in this very life and help all sentient beings become happier also.

Don't take Buddha's word for it. Check it out for yourself and see if it makes sense. The proof is in the pudding, the results of your actions, not just in your reading, thinking and talk, talk, talk.

Saddharma Frank Tedesco aka Jin Bup Bupsa

Nirodha House
PO Box 1387
Largo, FL 33779-1387
truedharma108@gmail.com
(727) 391-1152

"Out of my experience, I tell my friends wherever I go about the importance of love and compassion. Down deep we must have real affection for each other, a clear realization or recognition of our shared human status." His Holiness the Dalai Lama