Who is a Buddhist?
In no wise is a “Buddhist” the follower of a mystic ritual or some marginal movement that lives apart from the rest of the society, which requires a conversion. Even though, nowadays, many persons who claim to be Buddhists have life styles and embrace customs that drastically go astray from all that which originally defined this term, the “Buddhist” is only a person who lives in harmony with the teachings of dhamma. If our father is named Peter, if he gives us advices and if we put these advices into practice, at this moment we shall be “Peterist”. Also, we shall be “Jenniferist” when we shall follow the advices of our mother Jennifer. In the same way, a “Buddhist” is no one else than the one who puts into practices a life style that is in harmony with Buddha’s teaching. It is not about a practice that we integrate from time to time into our daily lives, which we integrate when we have a bit of “spare time” to be spent for it. It is not even a kind of activity that would take part into
