The Healing Power of the Precepts
... seen efforts to translate the precepts into standards that sound more lofty or noble — taking the second precept, for example, to mean no abuse of the planet's resources — but even the people who reformulate the precepts in this way admit that it is impossible to live up to them. Anyone who has deal ...
... seen efforts to translate the precepts into standards that sound more lofty or noble — taking the second precept, for example, to mean no abuse of the planet's resources — but even the people who reformulate the precepts in this way admit that it is impossible to live up to them. Anyone who has deal ...
BERKELEY BUDDHIST TEMPLE March 2012 Web Edition
... and for various reasons throughout our lives. If we allow them to, these very questions can also lead us to realize a sense of appreciation and gratitude at the deepest levels of the human heart. Jōdo Shinshū teaches us that Amida Buddha’s Primal Vow represents the depth and breadth of the Buddha's ...
... and for various reasons throughout our lives. If we allow them to, these very questions can also lead us to realize a sense of appreciation and gratitude at the deepest levels of the human heart. Jōdo Shinshū teaches us that Amida Buddha’s Primal Vow represents the depth and breadth of the Buddha's ...
Siddhartha Powerpoint
... world. He wanted to help those in poverty, and believed that men and women were equals, and all were capable of achieving nirvana. He taught that each individual must find his own journey towards it. • Buddhist are completely nonviolent, vegetarians, and revere all life forms. (Even the insect world ...
... world. He wanted to help those in poverty, and believed that men and women were equals, and all were capable of achieving nirvana. He taught that each individual must find his own journey towards it. • Buddhist are completely nonviolent, vegetarians, and revere all life forms. (Even the insect world ...
Societal Change Through Religion Protestantism and Buddhism
... Buddhist doctrine teaches that, “Salvation does not come from God or Gods, but from one’s own efforts.” (p. 243) “It is a doctrine of salvation by works alone.” (p. 243) Religious authority is then given to practice and Dharma. This religious authority and practice can be broken up into different ...
... Buddhist doctrine teaches that, “Salvation does not come from God or Gods, but from one’s own efforts.” (p. 243) “It is a doctrine of salvation by works alone.” (p. 243) Religious authority is then given to practice and Dharma. This religious authority and practice can be broken up into different ...
Samsara, Karma, and Self-Enlightenment: A Buddhist Perspective
... consequences of particular actions is a counterproductive practice that will only double one’s suffering or anxiety. Sogyal Rinpoche (2009, p.97) explains: “The kind of birth we will have in the next life is determined, then, by the nature of our actions in this one. And it is important never to for ...
... consequences of particular actions is a counterproductive practice that will only double one’s suffering or anxiety. Sogyal Rinpoche (2009, p.97) explains: “The kind of birth we will have in the next life is determined, then, by the nature of our actions in this one. And it is important never to for ...
This Talk - Three Wheels Temple
... his presence every time I had talked about our work of making the Zen garden. I have discovered that Adwaita is now a great sculptor in modern India, currrently working for the Gandhi Museum on a project to carve Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March out of three giant blocks of marble. On the 27th February ...
... his presence every time I had talked about our work of making the Zen garden. I have discovered that Adwaita is now a great sculptor in modern India, currrently working for the Gandhi Museum on a project to carve Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March out of three giant blocks of marble. On the 27th February ...
Violence and (Non-)resistance: Ahiṃsā Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... between ethics and religion, belief and faith, and knowledge and experience. I suggest that it is, despite a theoretical ambiguity, also “determinative” insofar as experience itself presents moral agents with unequivocal demands to act, or not act, on the bases of often nonconceptualized processes. ...
... between ethics and religion, belief and faith, and knowledge and experience. I suggest that it is, despite a theoretical ambiguity, also “determinative” insofar as experience itself presents moral agents with unequivocal demands to act, or not act, on the bases of often nonconceptualized processes. ...
Unit 4 Homework Questions for Instructor Chapter 5
... The Rise of the Mahayana in India: 7: distinguish between the terms Mahayana and hinayana: 8: what is the Tushita heaven and how does it factor in the development of Mahayana Buddhism? 9: Comment on the myth-making process that led to knowledge of other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas: The Spread of Buddhi ...
... The Rise of the Mahayana in India: 7: distinguish between the terms Mahayana and hinayana: 8: what is the Tushita heaven and how does it factor in the development of Mahayana Buddhism? 9: Comment on the myth-making process that led to knowledge of other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas: The Spread of Buddhi ...
Buddhism - WordPress.com
... • concept that one must go through many cycles of birth, living, and death • After many such cycles, if a person releases their attachment to desire and the self, they can attain Nirvana - a state of liberation and freedom from suffering • Nirvana can be achieved from meditating and following the gu ...
... • concept that one must go through many cycles of birth, living, and death • After many such cycles, if a person releases their attachment to desire and the self, they can attain Nirvana - a state of liberation and freedom from suffering • Nirvana can be achieved from meditating and following the gu ...
Buddhist Contributions to the World
... own minds. It is remarkable how near this philosophy of the Buddha brings us to some of the concepts of modern physics and modern philosophic thought. Buddha's method was one of psychological analysis and, again, it is surprising to find how deep was his insight into this latest of modem science. ● ...
... own minds. It is remarkable how near this philosophy of the Buddha brings us to some of the concepts of modern physics and modern philosophic thought. Buddha's method was one of psychological analysis and, again, it is surprising to find how deep was his insight into this latest of modem science. ● ...
There is Only One Mindfulness: Why Science and Buddhism Need
... Lama directs Buddhist followers to place their mind on four different objects of placement. These objects include (i) admiration and respect (for the Buddha and/or teacher), (ii) compassion, (iii) the divine/subtle body (that the meditation practitioner possesses), and (iv) emptiness. He then instru ...
... Lama directs Buddhist followers to place their mind on four different objects of placement. These objects include (i) admiration and respect (for the Buddha and/or teacher), (ii) compassion, (iii) the divine/subtle body (that the meditation practitioner possesses), and (iv) emptiness. He then instru ...
Only a Fool Becomes a King: Buddhist Stances on Punishment
... behavior. The old textbooks on jurisprudence, the dharmasūtras and dharmaśāstras, the composition of which began in the last centuries before the Common Era and clearly bear the imprints of a brahmanically dominated society, prescribe a wide variety of such punishments.1 Among them we find, just to ...
... behavior. The old textbooks on jurisprudence, the dharmasūtras and dharmaśāstras, the composition of which began in the last centuries before the Common Era and clearly bear the imprints of a brahmanically dominated society, prescribe a wide variety of such punishments.1 Among them we find, just to ...
Resource Package Related to Buddhist Chaplaincy
... purgatory. To understand this contradiction we must look to when and from where the praise and condemnation is coming from. It becomes clear that praise of the military appears in a mundane context and condemnation in a transcendental context. Explicit praise of the performance of military actions c ...
... purgatory. To understand this contradiction we must look to when and from where the praise and condemnation is coming from. It becomes clear that praise of the military appears in a mundane context and condemnation in a transcendental context. Explicit praise of the performance of military actions c ...
Who or what do Buddhists worship?
... have gained Enlightenment, then what is their status now? We can’t answer this question. The mind of a Buddha, we are told, is freed from all claims of ‘me’ and ‘mine’. Buddhas do not, as we do, automatically and unconsciously erect barriers between themselves and the flow of conditions about them. ...
... have gained Enlightenment, then what is their status now? We can’t answer this question. The mind of a Buddha, we are told, is freed from all claims of ‘me’ and ‘mine’. Buddhas do not, as we do, automatically and unconsciously erect barriers between themselves and the flow of conditions about them. ...
Vesak (Wesak, Buddha`s Birthday)
... all three anniversaries on the full moon of the sixth month. In Japan and other Mahayana Buddhist countries, these three events are celebrated on separate days: the Buddha’s birth on April 8, his enlightenment on December 8, and his death on February 15. Although the celebrations differ from country ...
... all three anniversaries on the full moon of the sixth month. In Japan and other Mahayana Buddhist countries, these three events are celebrated on separate days: the Buddha’s birth on April 8, his enlightenment on December 8, and his death on February 15. Although the celebrations differ from country ...
pramāṇakīrtiḥ
... autonomous, or must it rely on the superior insight of the Buddha and the eternal truths as formulated in the Buddhist sacred writings? Can the entire Buddhist doctrine be logically or rationally demonstrated, or does one have to accept some parts of it on blind faith? Should Buddhist logic be used ...
... autonomous, or must it rely on the superior insight of the Buddha and the eternal truths as formulated in the Buddhist sacred writings? Can the entire Buddhist doctrine be logically or rationally demonstrated, or does one have to accept some parts of it on blind faith? Should Buddhist logic be used ...
Buddhism - Jonathon Klyng
... ● Anatta: no soul. Buddha denied the idea of Atman, described as a spiritual substance that retains a separate identity from the physical body. ● Reincarnation & Karma: Although Buddha rejected the idea of a soul he believed in reincarnation through Karma. “A chain of causation threading each life t ...
... ● Anatta: no soul. Buddha denied the idea of Atman, described as a spiritual substance that retains a separate identity from the physical body. ● Reincarnation & Karma: Although Buddha rejected the idea of a soul he believed in reincarnation through Karma. “A chain of causation threading each life t ...
Buddhism and Atheism in 1980s China
... campaign against ‘superstitions’ such as fortune telling. Part of this involved the promotion of atheism. Its success was shown by the fact that in 1982, ‘not one of the commune members who built a new house — over 430 — had invited a geomancer to determine its fengshui’.25 Nevertheless, religious a ...
... campaign against ‘superstitions’ such as fortune telling. Part of this involved the promotion of atheism. Its success was shown by the fact that in 1982, ‘not one of the commune members who built a new house — over 430 — had invited a geomancer to determine its fengshui’.25 Nevertheless, religious a ...
M. A. Buddhist Literature
... Questions guiding psychological science Major milestones & key ideas in the history of psychology Nature of human being, emerged out of psychological studies Important conceptual issues in psychology: Nature vs. nurture debate, concept of consciousness, mind-body relationship, brain as abode of mind ...
... Questions guiding psychological science Major milestones & key ideas in the history of psychology Nature of human being, emerged out of psychological studies Important conceptual issues in psychology: Nature vs. nurture debate, concept of consciousness, mind-body relationship, brain as abode of mind ...
PDN`s Buddhist Glossary - Prison Mindfulness Institute
... of a stage of enlightenment. Concentrates on individual liberation through examining the twelvefold chain of dependant coorigination, pratityasamutpada. Also the name of the second of the ...
... of a stage of enlightenment. Concentrates on individual liberation through examining the twelvefold chain of dependant coorigination, pratityasamutpada. Also the name of the second of the ...