THE SEVEN ROOTS OF HUMAN MISERIES IN THE PRESENT WORLD: HOW THE BUDDHIST DOCTRINES HELP

Abstract

Human history is never in peace as we are always striving to be better than others. While the world’s education is helping human to have better life, materials, finance and basic infrastructure, we are still fighting each other resulting in anguish and endless despairs. With all the success around us, we are supposed to be happy. Why is that irony? This is because the present-day education is still lacking some important teachings on some critical issues of our life. Buddhism has the main goal of ending human’s suffering of all kinds or at least helps lessen the suffering so all of us can sustain life at comfortable level, materialistically and spiritually. The Buddha’s teaching can fill the gap the world’s formal education nowadays cannot reach.