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Walpola Rahula, with his incomparable knowledge of all ancient Buddhist texts, wrote “What the Buddha Taught” over 60 years ago. Ananda Maitreya thero’s “Strange Story” Ven.

To achieve this we have to be ehi-passika.

The true honour and respect we can offer to the Buddha and Mahinda thero is by trying to learn what the Buddha taught, so we could find the path and move along to seek our own salvation, an end to our suffering. To come back to the present, on Poson Day, we celebrate the arrival of Arhat Mahinda thero, who brought the message of the Buddha. When the hero died, they began to worship his memorial, his relics and his statues. But the people stopped at the post and began to worship the post, by offering flowers, incense, food and drink. He showed the directions and erected a sign post. He returns to the forest, with the good news and to show the path for the others to follow, so they could all escape the suffering. After a long and tedious journey he reaches the place where there is no suffering, no poison and no pain. One courageous person sets out to find a way to escape this suffering. The story is about a huge forest, where people are suffering from poisonous food and deadly animals. An English translation was published in the Daily News a few years ago. It was described as a work of fiction about a person who found a place free of suffering. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya thero published “Amuthu Kathawak” (A Strange Story), The Inner and Outer sides of Buddhism, 90 years ago, in the Wesak Supplement of the Swadeshamitraya, Buddhist Era 2474 (May 11, 1930).

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