仏教の先生の書かれた日本語文の英訳をさせていただいています。Buddhism’sTheory of Happinessという名前でYouTubeやSNSで仏教の布教活動をされています。その翻訳した文の一部を定期的にここでシェアさせていただきます。
Smart people are thinking 20 years ahead, managing their assets in Singapore, putting their condominiums in the name of their children for tax purposes, and so on.
However, even the wise people with such foresight overlook the question of what will happen to them when they die. In this respect, the entire human race has no foresight whatsoever.
How can we build a brighter present if we don’t know what will happen after death? Buddhism is the teaching that addresses and solves this problem.
In Buddhism, a “wise person” is someone who knows what will happen to the self when they die and who therefore has a bright future. The mind of such a person is at play in the Pure Land even in the now, while still alive. Buddhism teaches that this is what it means to be a “wise person” in a true sense: to have this foresight into the afterlife.