Like all great religions, Buddhism teaches the importance of spiritual, or holy, values. This religion teaches that, if a person has a pure mind, everything he does will be pure and decent and that, if one has a pure heart, all happiness will come to him.

Buddha’s Teachings is a concise and nonsectarian guide to basic Buddhist teachings, including the Fourfold Noble Truth, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Buddha Nature, the Way of Purification, and the Ways of Practice. This text for this reading is taken with permission from the Buddhist Promoting Foundation, Bukkyo Dendo Kokai, Tokyo, Japan.