Mother Teresa (1910-1997), a Christian evangelist of “love”, was active in helping the poor in India. We overlap her with the Buddha, who enlightened in the 5th-6th century BC and preached the teachings to many believers in India.
It travelled all over Japan, and when he saw the Mother Teresa exhibition being held, while rescue people by “love”, and the other was a Buddha who taught the philosophy of living as a human being and rescued from suffering. There are 10 other names that call the Buddha. There is a great deal of weight in “the words left behind” other than the commonalities of the word “India”.
Please let me introduce you that three big words, Living, Goodness, Death as below.
1. The words of the Buddha (Sutta Nipata): “A person does not become humble by birth but does not become a Brahmin by birth. By daily actions he becomes a humble, and by daily actions he becomes a Brahmin”.
・Don’t ask your birth, ask your actions. (a short word with the same meaning as above)
Mother Teresa’s words: The greatest misery of the world is not poverty or illness. It’s about feeling that you aren’t needed by anyone.
2．Buddha, Rokanitei* words: Good people’s fortunes are as good for people as well water. No matter how much the bad people’s goods are piled up, they are not as useful as seawater**.
・Hurry up to do good. If you are slow to do good, your heart will enjoy evil.
Mother Teresa’s words: The important thing is not how much you have done, but how much you put your heart into it.
3. The Buddha’s words: The teachings I preached and the commandments I controlled will be your teachers after my death. Ask questions about the Buddha, the law, the collection, the way, and the practice so that you will not regret it after I’m gone.
[The last word of the Buddha]
Mother Teresa’s words: Death is not a sad thing. The only thing we should be saddened is the fact that we are not holy.
@The teachings of Shaka (The Buddha) are from oral traditions to sutras, and since about 1000 years after entering Nirvana (Eden), evangelism by the “law” has expanded. The amount is enormous. In Christianity, it is the “Bible”.
Mother Teresa’s words are the words and teachings of the founder Christ, which are derived from faith and practical activities. Mother Teresa is a modern mirror (practice rather than theory, theory and practice), which should not be compared in the same line.
* The precept for one`s life (Rokanitei) is described as a bible for Burma people.
**In Indian Buddhism, well water was regarded as important in daily life, and seawater was not regarded as important because it cannot be drunk on a daily basis.
(Buddhist term) The infinite suffering of every sensitive being is called the sea.