Ebook: Pure Dhamma: A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings

Welcome!
This is a site dedicated to explore the Dhamma or the “laws of nature” as discovered by the Buddha 2500
years ago. Even though I am a Buddhist by birth, I never bothered to look into the question of why I was a
Buddhist. When I retired several years ago, I first started reading widely on many subjects, including
science, philosophy, and religion.
▪ When I started to glean the deep message of the Buddha, I realized that I had not known much
about my own “religion”, and that it had been “contaminated” over its long history. For the past
several years, I have been working exclusively on trying to find the essence of the message of the
Buddha. This is the result of that effort, which I wanted to share with the rest of the world.
There seem to be three types of people who become interested in “Buddhism”:
1. Those who have gone through hardships see that there is suffering “in this world”, and seeking
solutions.
2. Those who are getting to the old age and are beginning to see that despite a lot of struggles, there
are signs that whatever that has been achieved so far is masked by possible problems looming in
the future (aging, various ailments, not been able to get satisfaction from those things that provided
satisfaction before, etc).
3. Those who are intellectually motivated. They have been exposed to Dhammapada verses or some
other types of sayings by the Buddha which appear to provide a glimpse of a broader world view.
And some of those have been to meditation retreats and have realized that there is indeed a second option
compared to seeking material wealth and indulging in sense pleasures. Especially for those people in
categories 1 and 2, it becomes clear that indulging in sense pleasures does not have staying power. On the
other hand, the sense of well-being achieved via meditation has the staying power, and does not go down
as one gets old.