Professor Richard Francis Gombrich, a eighty-three-year old British Indologist and Boden Professor at Oxford University spent forty years of his life practicing the Buddha Dhamma and studing Pali Language, he tells us Exactly What It Means To Be A Buddhist, we have all been well guided by this explanation.

1} Being a Buddhist means not that I am purer and better than others but I have the wisdom to eradicate the ignorance and mental disorder that I have and development is to be achieved by awakening wisdom.

2} Being a Buddhist does not mean that I am more than others, by accepting all foolish ideas and by eradicating it all, is the means of self-development by wise wisdom. All that is in us is very wise.

3} Being a Buddhist does not mean that I am more good or bad than others, but all human beings are the same and that is to pave the way for establishing equality.

4} Being a Buddhist does not mean that I will show love and compassion to the people only I love, but adopting the Buddhist virtues of love and compassion by behaving kindly with the people and all beings on earth which are not my favorite.

5} Being a Buddhist does not mean that my goal is only my own interest and welfare but by sacrificing everything, everyone’s interests are tools and accommodating everyone in it.

6} Being a Buddhist does not mean just craving for happiness, but to embrace, and immovable like a deep calm sea for peace and eternal Dhamma in any situation. Stay awake and awaken a sense of overconfidence and neglect in yourself, it means trying to perfect yourself in it.

7} Being a Buddhist does not mean that you have your own interests and tools and to transform others for that purpose is to seal, but sympathetically thinking of animals and all are equal and by awakening wisdom and making good use of it, one’s own and others tools of interest.

8} Being a Buddhist does not mean leaving the world and being happy, but by being wise and staying in the present and adopting the Dhamma in way of life every day and for all and discovering emptiness.

9} Being a Buddhist is not just an idea of happiness, but to know that happiness is a law of nature, following the path of Dhamma and freeing oneself from that bondage. It means to make life easier.

10} To be a Buddhist is to think that I was blessed and I was born as a human being. Great opportunity has been received by me for receiving and understanding the Buddha’s way of life.

11} I am a Buddhist, that is, inwardly, with a pure pictorial mind, in our heart by awakening and by crossing this ocean, of human life. I am my own light instead of an external God.