Living beings are repeatedly reborn into the illusory material world. This is a world characterised by suffering. They can only escape the cycle of rebirth by acquiring sufficient merit through good deeds and words, thereby atoning for previous bad deeds and words. They then progress at each rebirth up the hierarchy of living beings to the pinnacle of Buddhahood. Buddha explains here that more merit is attained through understanding four lines of this sutra and explaining them to others, than through any amount of charity.
You can read more from the first published book in the world here. It takes some time to download:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/sutra/sutra_broadband.htm?middle
Last year a meditating teenage boy declared himself to be Buddha-reincarnate...
He went missing on March 11, 2006. His present whereabouts are unknown.
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