Self-Acceptance in Buddhism and Psychotherapy
... Samsara (“continuous flow”), or the great round of becoming (“cyclic existence”), refers to the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, which is basically seen as a cycle of suffering and dissatisfaction. Buddhism cosmology assumes various levels of existence. As related to the samsara cycle, Budd ...
... Samsara (“continuous flow”), or the great round of becoming (“cyclic existence”), refers to the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, which is basically seen as a cycle of suffering and dissatisfaction. Buddhism cosmology assumes various levels of existence. As related to the samsara cycle, Budd ...
The Oral Composition and Transmission of Early Buddhist Texts
... monks and nuns, and increasingly they were members of monastic institutions. They came from diverse social backgrounds: some were brahmans who presumably had undergone their traditional training, others would have had no formal training in literary/performance skills. And finally, material was perfo ...
... monks and nuns, and increasingly they were members of monastic institutions. They came from diverse social backgrounds: some were brahmans who presumably had undergone their traditional training, others would have had no formal training in literary/performance skills. And finally, material was perfo ...
Meditation on the Nature of Mind
... a subschool of the ancient Indian Samkhya tradition propound something like “self-creation” based on the law of causality: cause and effect. Nontheistic religions ultimately believe that we ourselves are the creator. Naturally, this creator cannot be the body. The body is important as the basis of m ...
... a subschool of the ancient Indian Samkhya tradition propound something like “self-creation” based on the law of causality: cause and effect. Nontheistic religions ultimately believe that we ourselves are the creator. Naturally, this creator cannot be the body. The body is important as the basis of m ...
Bullets - Fulford School : VLE
... Samsara refers to the life cycle of birth, death and rebirth. The atman keeps being reborn thousands of times until it escapes from the samsara cycle. The purpose of life is to improve and perfect wisdom in order to attain the final goal, namely moksha. The power of karma from the previous life carr ...
... Samsara refers to the life cycle of birth, death and rebirth. The atman keeps being reborn thousands of times until it escapes from the samsara cycle. The purpose of life is to improve and perfect wisdom in order to attain the final goal, namely moksha. The power of karma from the previous life carr ...
Did King Ajātasattu Confess to the Buddha, Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... There are some interesting features in this last passage which deserve a brief digression. Firstly, the passage implies that Vaḍḍha, a layman, has a bowl and eats with the bhikkhus. Horner objects to this: “a layman certainly would have had no begging bowl that could have been, literally, turned ups ...
... There are some interesting features in this last passage which deserve a brief digression. Firstly, the passage implies that Vaḍḍha, a layman, has a bowl and eats with the bhikkhus. Horner objects to this: “a layman certainly would have had no begging bowl that could have been, literally, turned ups ...
Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible
... Burmese Buddhist monks confront Americanization and how they have had to adjust their lifestyles to remain loyal to their monastic code. The other two changes involve white Americans. They are referred to as just “American” from here on. The American Buddhist practice of “reduction” means that Thera ...
... Burmese Buddhist monks confront Americanization and how they have had to adjust their lifestyles to remain loyal to their monastic code. The other two changes involve white Americans. They are referred to as just “American” from here on. The American Buddhist practice of “reduction” means that Thera ...
THE THREE JEWELS CONT`D - Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre
... (Pali)/Dharma (Sanskrit) means ‘to be held’ in Buddhism it means the teachings and doctrines of the Buddha. But these teachings and doctrine's are called Dhamma because they explain and describe the nature of things, the way things are, the way they operate. ...
... (Pali)/Dharma (Sanskrit) means ‘to be held’ in Buddhism it means the teachings and doctrines of the Buddha. But these teachings and doctrine's are called Dhamma because they explain and describe the nature of things, the way things are, the way they operate. ...
Week One: The story of the Historical Buddha and its symbolic
... equation. You will find, as you will in any other religious institution, and make no mistake that is what Buddhism has become in the 21st century, that the original message of its teacher gets lost along the way as the institutions are developed and become paramount. In his primary teaching known as ...
... equation. You will find, as you will in any other religious institution, and make no mistake that is what Buddhism has become in the 21st century, that the original message of its teacher gets lost along the way as the institutions are developed and become paramount. In his primary teaching known as ...
buddhist nuns in the global community
... Sakyamuni recommended the renunciant path as the most effective means for achieving liberation and many women were attracted to this path, beginning with the Buddha’s own stepmother and aunt, Mahaprajapati Gautami. Like other renunciants in the Buddha’s day, Buddhist monks and nuns lived a simple ce ...
... Sakyamuni recommended the renunciant path as the most effective means for achieving liberation and many women were attracted to this path, beginning with the Buddha’s own stepmother and aunt, Mahaprajapati Gautami. Like other renunciants in the Buddha’s day, Buddhist monks and nuns lived a simple ce ...
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 5 1998:120143 Publication date: 1 May 1998
... favor of interpretations and forms assumed to be more in line with the new circumstances. The so-called essence of Buddhism, presented as timeless and universal, will be transferred unchanged, however, as many Western Buddhists assure.6 Calls for new and adapted expressions are strongly brought fo ...
... favor of interpretations and forms assumed to be more in line with the new circumstances. The so-called essence of Buddhism, presented as timeless and universal, will be transferred unchanged, however, as many Western Buddhists assure.6 Calls for new and adapted expressions are strongly brought fo ...
Tantric Poetry of Kukai
... is one of the most profoundly influential figures in Buddhism, widely revered as Japan's greatest saint. A precocious scholar and wandering monk, he was ordained at T�daiji in Nara and later spent two years in China (804-6), where he was ordained as a Master of the Shingon (True Word) sect. Returnin ...
... is one of the most profoundly influential figures in Buddhism, widely revered as Japan's greatest saint. A precocious scholar and wandering monk, he was ordained at T�daiji in Nara and later spent two years in China (804-6), where he was ordained as a Master of the Shingon (True Word) sect. Returnin ...
9 On `Refrain from All Evil Whatsoever`
... in the training and practice of Buddhas and Ancestors, there are no Buddhas or Ancestors who have avoided or turned away from these three aspects or ever would, be it in the past, present, or future. At the time when a sentient being ‘becomes’ a Buddha or an Ancestor, the Buddhas and Ancestors that ...
... in the training and practice of Buddhas and Ancestors, there are no Buddhas or Ancestors who have avoided or turned away from these three aspects or ever would, be it in the past, present, or future. At the time when a sentient being ‘becomes’ a Buddha or an Ancestor, the Buddhas and Ancestors that ...
Good Question, Good Answer - Visuddha Meditation Centre
... drug addicts. In 1987 another Thai monk, Ven. Kantayapiwat was awarded the Norwegian Children’s Peace Prize for his many years of work helping homeless children in rural areas. And what about the large scale social work being done among the poor in India by the Western Buddhist Order? They have buil ...
... drug addicts. In 1987 another Thai monk, Ven. Kantayapiwat was awarded the Norwegian Children’s Peace Prize for his many years of work helping homeless children in rural areas. And what about the large scale social work being done among the poor in India by the Western Buddhist Order? They have buil ...
The Four Noble Truths - Garnet Valley School District
... Someone who reaches nirvana does not immediately disappear to a heavenly realm. Nirvana is better understood as a state of mind that humans can reach. It is a state of profound spiritual joy, without negative emotions and fears. It is said, that someone who has attained enlightenment is filled with ...
... Someone who reaches nirvana does not immediately disappear to a heavenly realm. Nirvana is better understood as a state of mind that humans can reach. It is a state of profound spiritual joy, without negative emotions and fears. It is said, that someone who has attained enlightenment is filled with ...
THE LIVING MESSAGE OF THE DHAMMAPADA by Bhikkhu Bodhi
... prepared sufficiently by previous experience by previous experience in the world, does not long even for rebirth among the gods (vv. 186187). Having understood that all conditioned things are intrinsically unsatisfactory and fraught with danger, the mature disciple aspires ...
... prepared sufficiently by previous experience by previous experience in the world, does not long even for rebirth among the gods (vv. 186187). Having understood that all conditioned things are intrinsically unsatisfactory and fraught with danger, the mature disciple aspires ...
Reinventing Female Identity: A Brief History of Korean Buddhist Nuns*
... the status of women in Buddhism, this is a problem that causes considerable anguish. Scholarly research to date on this subject is largely divided into two camps. The first maintains that these regulations did not reflect the thinking of the Buddha himself but were created in later times by his cons ...
... the status of women in Buddhism, this is a problem that causes considerable anguish. Scholarly research to date on this subject is largely divided into two camps. The first maintains that these regulations did not reflect the thinking of the Buddha himself but were created in later times by his cons ...
Predictions of Women to Buddhahood in Middle-Period Literature Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... the lifetimes of his epochal career.5 According to tradition, the Bodhisattva had to traverse an inconceivable range of forms of existence in saṃsāra—which must have included female existences, in addition to animal and divine destinies—before his final liberation. Before the first arising of the in ...
... the lifetimes of his epochal career.5 According to tradition, the Bodhisattva had to traverse an inconceivable range of forms of existence in saṃsāra—which must have included female existences, in addition to animal and divine destinies—before his final liberation. Before the first arising of the in ...
The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya
... light-skinned Aryans, who looked down on those of darker hue they found there. In the context of Buddhism, where this racial and aristocratic term (literally 'noble') is applied to the nobility of the spirit, we shall use the form Ariyan, based on Pali. The Brahmins were the guardians of the religio ...
... light-skinned Aryans, who looked down on those of darker hue they found there. In the context of Buddhism, where this racial and aristocratic term (literally 'noble') is applied to the nobility of the spirit, we shall use the form Ariyan, based on Pali. The Brahmins were the guardians of the religio ...
Learning the Buddha`s Great Compassion
... Suppose there is a person who, without awakening the mind aspiring for supreme enlightenment, simply hears that bliss is enjoyed in that land without interruption and desires to be born there for the sake of the bliss; such a person will not be able to attain birth. Mahayana bodhisattvas, having bec ...
... Suppose there is a person who, without awakening the mind aspiring for supreme enlightenment, simply hears that bliss is enjoyed in that land without interruption and desires to be born there for the sake of the bliss; such a person will not be able to attain birth. Mahayana bodhisattvas, having bec ...
Unit G586 - Buddhism - Scheme of work and lesson plan
... could be viewed as a subtle form of greed. ...
... could be viewed as a subtle form of greed. ...
Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community，Nepal
... was made the name of a much larger modern Hindu country by the midmontane Himalayan peoples under the Shah dynasty from Gorkha，who conquered the city-states of the Newar people. From 1846 until 1951 the despotic Rana family sought to undermine both Buddhism and Newar cul ture through legal sanction ...
... was made the name of a much larger modern Hindu country by the midmontane Himalayan peoples under the Shah dynasty from Gorkha，who conquered the city-states of the Newar people. From 1846 until 1951 the despotic Rana family sought to undermine both Buddhism and Newar cul ture through legal sanction ...
Zen Language in our Time: the case of Pojo Chinul`s
... The originality of the huatou method lies in its employment of language for the understanding of one's ontological ground. Language itself is a good example of emptiness. Being an arbitrary sign system, no signifier in a linguistic system can claim anything about the nature of the signified. Languag ...
... The originality of the huatou method lies in its employment of language for the understanding of one's ontological ground. Language itself is a good example of emptiness. Being an arbitrary sign system, no signifier in a linguistic system can claim anything about the nature of the signified. Languag ...
Consuming Buddhism: the Pursuit of Happiness
... material objects or religious goods. These sacred objects are highly personal and accessible to a large number of consumers (Park and Baker, 2007). The distribution of popular religious goods has been an integral part of Buddhist culture in Thailand since the 19th century. With the development of pr ...
... material objects or religious goods. These sacred objects are highly personal and accessible to a large number of consumers (Park and Baker, 2007). The distribution of popular religious goods has been an integral part of Buddhist culture in Thailand since the 19th century. With the development of pr ...
Buddhist meditation
Buddhist meditation refers to the meditative practices associated with the religion and philosophy of Buddhism.Core meditation techniques have been preserved in ancient Buddhist texts and have proliferated and diversified through teacher-student transmissions. Buddhists pursue meditation as part of the path toward Enlightenment and Nirvana. The closest words for meditation in the classical languages of Buddhism are bhāvanā and jhāna/dhyāna. Buddhist meditation techniques have become increasingly popular in the wider world, with many non-Buddhists taking them up for a variety of reasons.Buddhist meditation encompasses a variety of meditation techniques that aim to develop mindfulness, concentration, supramundane powers, tranquility, and insight. Given the large number and diversity of traditional Buddhist meditation practices, this article primarily identifies authoritative contextual frameworks — both contemporary and canonical — for the variety of practices. For those seeking school-specific meditation information, it may be more appropriate to simply view the articles listed in the ""See also"" section below.