By contrast, the Buddhism does not embrace these principles as such. Although it acknowledges the importance of faith, moral rules and vows and concentration as indispensable factors in attaining the goal, yet they are not decisive factors. We have to be careful on this point. It is not the case that Buddhism disregards the importance of faith, moral rules and vows and concentration. On the contrary, these are basic and indispensable factors. Regarding Faith, the Buddha once said: Saddhaya tarati ogham, meaning that a person can cross a torrent with faith. And then the question is crossing what torrent? Crossing the torrent of rebirth is crossing the cycle of rebirths, which means the person can free himself from endless suffering. This is evidence that the Buddha admits that we can be free of suffering through faith. With a casual view of this we might say that mere faith will suffice. In the case of morality, we can cite another Pali expression. At the end of giving the training rules (to the lay devotees) the monk will conclude thus: Silena sugatim yanti silena bhogasampada silena nibbutim yanti The pali words say that individuals can attain nirvana ( i.e. nibbutim) through morality. The nirvana is attainable with training rules which is an acknowledgement that moral principles enable a person to get to nirvana. So morality alone should be enough. As for concentration numerous of this in the Buddha's teaching can be cited. If one is make a simplistic claim that concentration is enough to get a person to nirvana, one can cite as an example early stages of nirvana call Nirodha (extinction of defilements).
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