American Buddhist Sangha Movement:
We exist to provide individuals with a process for living a happier life. We encourage  ones personal and social wellbeing/spiritual
growth by focusing on their present lives. For your thoughts/actions of today will indeed influence your future experiences.
Even as you read his note, you are living a past encounter  that lead you here, thus recreating this spiritual event.


The ultimate objective in our teachings beyond personal safety is  the attainment of  Present Moment Clarification, Spiritual Enlightenment, and/or Buddha-hood. Present Moment Clarification refers to the open mind that is aware and constantly
learning about itself. Spiritual Enlightenment / Buddha-hood is the complete development of the enlightened mind.
Buddha-hood is a mental state that is the most beneficial that a human being can have to live a happy and worthwhile life.

•  Spiritual Enlightenment / Buddha-hood is beyond ones culture, race, gender, educational status, or religious denomination. Regrettably most people think that enlightenment is based on clever knowledge. Others, think that enlightenment is merely becoming attached to and memorizing the writings of the Buddha, other religious dogma. These individuals are lost whether
  they are Buddhists or not. Attachment and entrapment of ones mind within the realm of Buddhism is just as bad as the entrapment of the egotistic mind in any other spiritual/religious/philosophical venue.
  
• One who wants to follow the teachings of the American Buddhist Sangha Should do so in order to help oneself and others.
  
• What looks weak might in fact be strong. What is soft might be hard. Likewise in our teachings what is appropriate for
  one person may be nonsense to another. What works for some may not work for all. It is up to each individual to follow
  the path of spiritual enlightenment in a way most successful for them. Being mindful/compassionate of the views/opinions
  other  paths.
  
• All sentient beings are the same beyond race, gender, and culture. Any other views beyond this can be considered
  wrong views and will not help one attain enlightenment naturally. The place of true cultivation is within your heart/spirit.
  You should be an expression of the beauty of this world. Seek all that is beautiful and express it through your behavior.
  
• Cultivate compassion for it is more important to the world than love. Seek health and longevity.
  
• The female and male bodies are but vehicles to higher states of being. Do not allow the self/ego to become attached
  and lost to there superficial forms.