The Uniqueness of Buddhism
... He preferred to explain His Teachings in a logical and reasonable manner, and wanted people to understand and realize the Teachings for themselves without fear of any punishments from Him. ...
... He preferred to explain His Teachings in a logical and reasonable manner, and wanted people to understand and realize the Teachings for themselves without fear of any punishments from Him. ...
Vinaya Piṭaka in Buddhist Religious Literature
... The Buddha dispatched his first sixty disciples of whom he was confident that they were as qualified as himself for this mission. The sole purpose of this was that all beings be liberated from the miseries of existential continuance that every being inherits. Thus his first teachings which came to b ...
... The Buddha dispatched his first sixty disciples of whom he was confident that they were as qualified as himself for this mission. The sole purpose of this was that all beings be liberated from the miseries of existential continuance that every being inherits. Thus his first teachings which came to b ...
Word of the Buddha - According to the Pali Canon or Tripitaka
... this by their own well-directed endeavour and striving [sammā vāyāma] at a down-to-earth human level. The ability and the capacity to do this is necessarily the outcome of a long and sustained process of moral and ethical development. It is a higher rung [No. 6 = sammā vāyāmo] in the spiritual ladde ...
... this by their own well-directed endeavour and striving [sammā vāyāma] at a down-to-earth human level. The ability and the capacity to do this is necessarily the outcome of a long and sustained process of moral and ethical development. It is a higher rung [No. 6 = sammā vāyāmo] in the spiritual ladde ...
Tolerance and Peace the essence of Buddhism
... after the wives of others are addicted to intoxicating, digs up one‟s own roots in this very world”. (14) The great Buddhist philosopher of world Acharya Vasubandhu says in Abhidarma Kosa-Bhasya especially in Karma-Nirdesa (Exposition of action) in Karika 16 A.B. about Sila (Morality). These are fiv ...
... after the wives of others are addicted to intoxicating, digs up one‟s own roots in this very world”. (14) The great Buddhist philosopher of world Acharya Vasubandhu says in Abhidarma Kosa-Bhasya especially in Karma-Nirdesa (Exposition of action) in Karika 16 A.B. about Sila (Morality). These are fiv ...
the scientific Buddha notes
... philosophy of Nagarjuna and the doctrine of emptiness. Since the 70s, Buddhism in dialog with science has largely been Tibetan, a form previously regarded as degenerate. Now the Grand Lama of Lhasa holds annual seminars with some of the leading scientists of the world. The greatest energy today in ...
... philosophy of Nagarjuna and the doctrine of emptiness. Since the 70s, Buddhism in dialog with science has largely been Tibetan, a form previously regarded as degenerate. Now the Grand Lama of Lhasa holds annual seminars with some of the leading scientists of the world. The greatest energy today in ...
Background of Buddhism
... this earth can become sick and there is no way out. Next time, when prince was on his way of evening walk as usual, he met an old man. The old man was unable to walk properly and having stick in his hand for support to stand. He was in deep anguish and disquiet. Nobody was paying attention to him. H ...
... this earth can become sick and there is no way out. Next time, when prince was on his way of evening walk as usual, he met an old man. The old man was unable to walk properly and having stick in his hand for support to stand. He was in deep anguish and disquiet. Nobody was paying attention to him. H ...
The Four Realities True for Noble Ones: Ariyasacca Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... meanings in different contexts. Many words have several meanings within their semantic range, but context and usage indicates the difference between these. (“Ariyasaccas” 207) Of course, we need not doubt that the Buddha must have known what he was talking about, and his listeners, what they were li ...
... meanings in different contexts. Many words have several meanings within their semantic range, but context and usage indicates the difference between these. (“Ariyasaccas” 207) Of course, we need not doubt that the Buddha must have known what he was talking about, and his listeners, what they were li ...
The last meal of Buddha
... The word that detested the ears and the sight of the Indians was “Sukara” referring to a pig or a hog. It is stated in the commentaries by Buddhagosha, that Lord Buddha passed away after consuming “Sukara Maddava” for his Last Meal. This cannot be denied as it is found in the commentaries and also ...
... The word that detested the ears and the sight of the Indians was “Sukara” referring to a pig or a hog. It is stated in the commentaries by Buddhagosha, that Lord Buddha passed away after consuming “Sukara Maddava” for his Last Meal. This cannot be denied as it is found in the commentaries and also ...
The Noble Eight-fold Path Teachers Notes
... This means behaving ethically. The Buddha gave lists of how to behave ethically, and one such list is ‘The Five Precepts’. (‘Precept’ means something like ‘guideline’.) The Five Precepts are: 1. To avoid harming other beings. 2. To avoid taking what is not freely-given 3. To avoid craving 4. To avoi ...
... This means behaving ethically. The Buddha gave lists of how to behave ethically, and one such list is ‘The Five Precepts’. (‘Precept’ means something like ‘guideline’.) The Five Precepts are: 1. To avoid harming other beings. 2. To avoid taking what is not freely-given 3. To avoid craving 4. To avoi ...
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
... (indriya asaívaro), which is explained by the commentator as the admittance of lust and hate into the six sense-organs of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. The nutriment of non-restraint is shown to be lack of mindfulness and of complete awareness (asati asampajañña). In the context of nutrime ...
... (indriya asaívaro), which is explained by the commentator as the admittance of lust and hate into the six sense-organs of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. The nutriment of non-restraint is shown to be lack of mindfulness and of complete awareness (asati asampajañña). In the context of nutrime ...
The Sound of Silence
... meditating must involve the body and the mind as a single entity. In the most general definition, meditation is a way of taking control of the mind so that it becomes peaceful and focused, and the meditator becomes more aware. Buddhist meditation encompasses a variety of meditation techniques that d ...
... meditating must involve the body and the mind as a single entity. In the most general definition, meditation is a way of taking control of the mind so that it becomes peaceful and focused, and the meditator becomes more aware. Buddhist meditation encompasses a variety of meditation techniques that d ...
Prereadings For Cultivating The Heart-min
... The first type of dukkha encompasses the difficulties associated with birth, old age, sickness and death. Also included in this first category is the inevitable fact that individuals often get what they do not want, do not get what they want, and are, sometime or other, parted from what they like. P ...
... The first type of dukkha encompasses the difficulties associated with birth, old age, sickness and death. Also included in this first category is the inevitable fact that individuals often get what they do not want, do not get what they want, and are, sometime or other, parted from what they like. P ...
Buddhism - resources.teachnet.ie
... Fortune tellers told the King what the future held for his son. They all agreed that if Gotama stayed in the world he would become a great emperor, ruler of all India but if he decided to lead a holy life he would not become an emperor. The King wanted his son to be the Emperor and so gave him every ...
... Fortune tellers told the King what the future held for his son. They all agreed that if Gotama stayed in the world he would become a great emperor, ruler of all India but if he decided to lead a holy life he would not become an emperor. The King wanted his son to be the Emperor and so gave him every ...
Haslingden High School RE HOMEWORK BOOKLET Year 8
... Gotami went to another house. But the same thing happened again. This time a young girl answered the door and Gotami asked her for a mustard seed. The girl said she was sorry, but her mother had ________ a few weeks ago, so she could not help Gotami in her search. Gotami kept searching all day for a ...
... Gotami went to another house. But the same thing happened again. This time a young girl answered the door and Gotami asked her for a mustard seed. The girl said she was sorry, but her mother had ________ a few weeks ago, so she could not help Gotami in her search. Gotami kept searching all day for a ...
Sermon Buddhism and the Bible
... Accountability to oneself is much harder than going to confession and being forgiven by a priest or pastor, and I can understand and I accept that it is easier for many people to have such a mediator, a spokesperson who can soothe your worries. If your theology includes a wrathful and punishing God, ...
... Accountability to oneself is much harder than going to confession and being forgiven by a priest or pastor, and I can understand and I accept that it is easier for many people to have such a mediator, a spokesperson who can soothe your worries. If your theology includes a wrathful and punishing God, ...
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... each face of which was made of a differently-coloured precious substance. Indians thought of their land, Jambudvipa, as being a trapezoidal continent to the south of the sacred mountain, opposite its lapis lazuli slope. To either side of it lay small sub-continents of similar shape. Other continents ...
... each face of which was made of a differently-coloured precious substance. Indians thought of their land, Jambudvipa, as being a trapezoidal continent to the south of the sacred mountain, opposite its lapis lazuli slope. To either side of it lay small sub-continents of similar shape. Other continents ...
the rationalist tendency in modern buddhist scholarship: a revaluation
... thought. Yet I believe that rationality cannot be the measure of value in the Buddhist tradition and, furthermore, that the rationality he is perceiving in early Buddhism is, in fact, nothing more than the rationalized recasting of Buddhism created by Victorian scholars from the West. The Strategy o ...
... thought. Yet I believe that rationality cannot be the measure of value in the Buddhist tradition and, furthermore, that the rationality he is perceiving in early Buddhism is, in fact, nothing more than the rationalized recasting of Buddhism created by Victorian scholars from the West. The Strategy o ...
The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya
... 1956-57. He belonged to the Sakya clan dwelling on the edge of the Himalayas, his actual birthplace being a few miles north of the present-day Indian border, in Nepal. His father, Suddhodana, was in fact an elected chief of the clan rather than the king he was later made out to be, though his title ...
... 1956-57. He belonged to the Sakya clan dwelling on the edge of the Himalayas, his actual birthplace being a few miles north of the present-day Indian border, in Nepal. His father, Suddhodana, was in fact an elected chief of the clan rather than the king he was later made out to be, though his title ...
Vistor Guide1 - Dharma Center of Oklahoma
... Together with the two shorter sutras that traditionally accompany it, Innumerable Meanings and Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Wisdom, it comprises one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism and indeed, one of the major documents of world religion. The Lotus Sutra consists of ...
... Together with the two shorter sutras that traditionally accompany it, Innumerable Meanings and Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Wisdom, it comprises one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism and indeed, one of the major documents of world religion. The Lotus Sutra consists of ...
Buddhism and Addictions
... notably Pali (P), Sanskrit (S), Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan. Where fundamental terminology of the religion cannot be adequately translated into single English words the Sanskrit version will usually be given. If the context makes the Pali form more appropriate this will be indicated. Primary sourc ...
... notably Pali (P), Sanskrit (S), Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan. Where fundamental terminology of the religion cannot be adequately translated into single English words the Sanskrit version will usually be given. If the context makes the Pali form more appropriate this will be indicated. Primary sourc ...
The Buddhist Approach to Overcoming Suffering
... Mindfulness and Right Concentration. One needs to examine each of these more fully, and time does not permit us to do so here and now. But the Buddha’s insight is that although, mistakenly, we attribute suffering to external matters, we, ourselves, in misinterpreting and misunderstanding reality, ar ...
... Mindfulness and Right Concentration. One needs to examine each of these more fully, and time does not permit us to do so here and now. But the Buddha’s insight is that although, mistakenly, we attribute suffering to external matters, we, ourselves, in misinterpreting and misunderstanding reality, ar ...
- Esamskriti
... already a most powerful body of priests. A time came when the free spirit of development that had at first actuated the Brahmins disappeared. Buddha cut through all these excrescences. He taught the very gist of the philosophy of the Vedas to one and all without distinction. Buddha said, ‘These cere ...
... already a most powerful body of priests. A time came when the free spirit of development that had at first actuated the Brahmins disappeared. Buddha cut through all these excrescences. He taught the very gist of the philosophy of the Vedas to one and all without distinction. Buddha said, ‘These cere ...
Buddhism Today - One founder, Many Paths The Vesak Plays
... We are grateful to Father Michael of Catholic Parish of St. Peter’s for letting us have the church hall for the function. The Old girls of Visakha were responsible for the table décor which was stunning. We managed to get over eight hundred dollars from the sale of raffle tickets. That was once agai ...
... We are grateful to Father Michael of Catholic Parish of St. Peter’s for letting us have the church hall for the function. The Old girls of Visakha were responsible for the table décor which was stunning. We managed to get over eight hundred dollars from the sale of raffle tickets. That was once agai ...
Buddhism in a Nutshell
... Royal household. He knew no woe, but he felt a deep pity for sorrowing humanity. Amidst comfort and prosperity, he realized the universality of sorrow. The palace, with all its worldly amusements, was no longer a congenial place for the compassionate prince. The time was ripe for him to depart. Real ...
... Royal household. He knew no woe, but he felt a deep pity for sorrowing humanity. Amidst comfort and prosperity, he realized the universality of sorrow. The palace, with all its worldly amusements, was no longer a congenial place for the compassionate prince. The time was ripe for him to depart. Real ...
Right Knowledge - What Buddha Said
... the highest knowledge as consisting of understanding the dependent origination of things, the transient, unsatisfactory and unsubstantial nature of all phenomena, the understanding of suffering, its origin, cessation and the path to its cessation. Right knowledge is attained not by discovering some ...
... the highest knowledge as consisting of understanding the dependent origination of things, the transient, unsatisfactory and unsubstantial nature of all phenomena, the understanding of suffering, its origin, cessation and the path to its cessation. Right knowledge is attained not by discovering some ...
Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: catvāri āryasatyāni; Pali: cattāri ariyasaccāni) are ""the truths of the Noble Ones,"" which express the basic orientation of Buddhism: this worldly existence is fundamentally unsatisfactory, but there is a path to liberation from repeated worldly existence. The truths are as follows: The Truth of Dukkha is that all conditional phenomena and experiences are not ultimately satisfying; The Truth of the Origin of Dukkha is that craving for and clinging to what is pleasurable and aversion to what is not pleasurable result in becoming, rebirth, dissatisfaction, and redeath; The Truth of the Cessation of Dukkha is that putting an end to this craving and clinging also means that rebirth, dissatisfaction, and redeath can no longer arise; The Truth of the Path Of Liberation from Dukkha is that by following the Noble Eightfold Path—namely, behaving decently, cultivating discipline, and practicing mindfulness and meditation—an end can be put to craving, to clinging, to becoming, to rebirth, to dissatisfaction, and to redeath.The four truths provide a useful conceptual framework for making sense of Buddhist thought, which has to be personally understood or ""experienced."" Many Buddhist teachers present them as the essence of Buddhist teachings, though this importance developed over time, substituting older notions of what constitutes prajna, or ""liberating insight.""In the sutras the four truths have both a symbolic and a propositional function. They represent the awakening and liberation of the Buddha, but also the possibility of liberation for all sentient beings, describing how release from craving is to be reached.