Buddha’s model of Deliverance: An Analysis

Bodhendra Kumar

Having a treasure of rich classical traditions, India has always played a significant role in emancipating the lives of people around the world. Among these traditions, a non-Vedic tradition, Buddhism is still enhancing the lives of people, globally. The main factor responsible for its worldwide acceptance is its non-metaphysical and non-sectarian nature of deliverance, as Buddha’s method is independent of race, region, culture and religion. Buddha’s model of Deliverance integrates the worldly knowledge into a classical prototype to convert suffering into bliss. Buddha’s deliverance catapults one from mundane conventions to moral liberation. The truth Buddha had penetrated the fourfold division of knowledge, expressed as the Four Noble Truths. These Four Noble Truths comes first in the Buddha’s teaching and further summarises in his deliverance. His deliverance does not include contemplation of the absolute knowledge, but he employs the technique of meditation, using ordinary objects of meditation, as the path to attain the ultimate knowledge. According to his model of purification, the process starts with conceptual development with the acknowledgement of Ignorance (Avijjā) as the root cause of all sufferings in the present and future lives. He further conceptually develops the 12 links of cause and effect – Paticcasamutpada, which explains the development of ignorance into mind and body and he talks about Pragya – wisdom which forms the primary tool to remove suffering. Buddha’s meditation starts with observing Pancasila with the practising of the Eight-Fold Path and then dwelling in Metta (compassion). His method Trans mutates ignorant beings to enlightened beings.

In this research paper, the researcher has attempted to conclude the distinctiveness of theoretical and practical approaches used by Buddha in alleviating suffering from the lives of masses.

https://dx.doi.org/10.31873/IJEAS.6.8.2019.26