Skyler Ray Taylor's blog

I was reading the post of the Skyler Ray Taylor. I know him more as an acquaintance rather than someone up close. However during my brief encounters with him I have seen him as someone who is passionate about his faith. Reading his blog on facebook was little more enlightening where he traces his journey to his current belief. I remember once he proudly claimed that he dabbled in "Buddhism" before finding his true faith.

The essence of Buddhism is just its core message. Rest all is built up by people all around the world mainly because they were carrying their load of previous religious training. Buddhism is not a new age religion or a hippie movement. Its a philosophy that tells you what is the source of your sorrow is. "Any craving for pleasure or animosity to pain brings sorrow. So to be peaceful you have to remain equanimous. Realize that this is a state right now and it will change". If you meditate on this a little you will realize that how powerful that it is. A feeling of Aha accompanies with a chill in the spine. That's truth !! and you begin to see that life is beautiful and you can be in control. However if you look at all the intellectual literature on Buddhism they are doing what philosophers do best making simple things complex and the truth is lost. They make theories, rituals and justifications and that has been the fate of all the flavour of Buddhism, which have become nothing more than elaborate ceremonies. What else Buddha did was the way to reach that equanimity and that is Vipassana. Buddha is a genius far greater than any other spiritual being because he found that truth, shared it with everybody, not using it to achieve a divine status for himself. He freed everybody in the real sense.