{"id":1708,"date":"2014-04-21T21:51:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T01:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?page_id=1708"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:14:39","slug":"vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The Buddha gave his teachings &#8220;&#8230;.for the good of many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the benefit, welfare and happiness of gods and humans.&#8221; &#8211; Vinaya Pitaka, Mahavagga I.11.1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Buddhist Faith Fellowship is dedicated to sharing the Buddhist teachings of awareness, wisdom, and compassion, and to promoting spaces and communities for its practice and development in order to guide all truth-seekers to spiritual enlightenment, thereby advancing human flourishing and benefit all sentient beings in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As 21st century spiritual pioneers, we envision an innovative, practical, and thriving American Buddhism that meets the religious, ethical, and psychological needs of our generation and culture through the liberating teachings of classical Buddhism \u2013 Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana- with special emphasis on Zen and Pure Land teachings \u2013 while being Informed by the discoveries of modern science and recognizing the biophysical realities of human existence, to inspire universal spiritual awakening for all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">T<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5394 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nembutsu-lotus-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nembutsu-lotus-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nembutsu-lotus.png 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Buddha gave his teachings &#8220;&#8230;.for the good of many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the benefit, welfare and happiness of gods and humans.&#8221; &#8211; Vinaya Pitaka, Mahavagga I.11.1 Mission The Buddhist Faith Fellowship is dedicated to sharing the Buddhist teachings of awareness, wisdom, and compassion, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1708","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14044,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708\/revisions\/14044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}