November 2015 - Triangle Insight Meditation Community
... which will then open to our deeds that are covered under Wise Action. All the while we are to follow the formula spelled out in Wise Effort, and always noticing the importance of Wise Mindfulness and Wise Concentration in this endeavor. You may find this to be quite challenging, but well worth the e ...
... which will then open to our deeds that are covered under Wise Action. All the while we are to follow the formula spelled out in Wise Effort, and always noticing the importance of Wise Mindfulness and Wise Concentration in this endeavor. You may find this to be quite challenging, but well worth the e ...
Down This Talk - Three Wheels Temple
... only a few of his closest disciples. Divided into 16 sections, it elucidates Amida’s Original Prayer which specifically chooses the practice of the nembutsu as the right practice for all human beings. It centres around the idea of faith found in Zendo’s Exposition of the Sutra of Meditation. In 1201 ...
... only a few of his closest disciples. Divided into 16 sections, it elucidates Amida’s Original Prayer which specifically chooses the practice of the nembutsu as the right practice for all human beings. It centres around the idea of faith found in Zendo’s Exposition of the Sutra of Meditation. In 1201 ...
As mentioned in the verse of The Foundation of All Good Qualities:-
... the bodhisattvas on the eighth, ninth and tenth grounds still need to depend on subtle exertion in order to work for sentient beings. By depending on this subtle exertion, they take on the mental body through which they work for sentient beings. When one achieves enlightenment, the level of predispo ...
... the bodhisattvas on the eighth, ninth and tenth grounds still need to depend on subtle exertion in order to work for sentient beings. By depending on this subtle exertion, they take on the mental body through which they work for sentient beings. When one achieves enlightenment, the level of predispo ...
bussho notes
... is that “living beings” represent but one type within the “entirety of being” — with, perhaps, the added suggestion that any one type is in some sense one with the entire set. “Skin, flesh, bones, and marrow” (hi niku kotsu zui 皮肉骨髄): An expression, very common in Dōgen’s writings for the essence or ...
... is that “living beings” represent but one type within the “entirety of being” — with, perhaps, the added suggestion that any one type is in some sense one with the entire set. “Skin, flesh, bones, and marrow” (hi niku kotsu zui 皮肉骨髄): An expression, very common in Dōgen’s writings for the essence or ...
Chapter One
... Background of the Thesis Today Buddhism consists of two main schools which are Theravada and Mahayana. It is widely understood that Theravada represents the earliest form of Buddhism and Mahayana is considered as a new form of Buddhism. Sometimes, it is believed as well that what the Mahayana school ...
... Background of the Thesis Today Buddhism consists of two main schools which are Theravada and Mahayana. It is widely understood that Theravada represents the earliest form of Buddhism and Mahayana is considered as a new form of Buddhism. Sometimes, it is believed as well that what the Mahayana school ...
manual of zen buddhism
... of Chinese Zen. In China the Shingon did not thrive very long but left its traces in Zen. Dharani, the root of which is dhr, "to hold" or "to convey", is ordinarily translated by the Chinese tsung-ch'ih, "general holder", at neng-ch'ih, "that which holds". A dharani is considered as holding magical ...
... of Chinese Zen. In China the Shingon did not thrive very long but left its traces in Zen. Dharani, the root of which is dhr, "to hold" or "to convey", is ordinarily translated by the Chinese tsung-ch'ih, "general holder", at neng-ch'ih, "that which holds". A dharani is considered as holding magical ...
here - Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley
... Registration Pre-registration is required for all courses and retreats unless otherwise indicated. Pre-registration will be evaluated one week prior to the start date of the course or retreat. If there are too few pre-registrants, the offering may be cancelled at the discretion of the teacher. Cance ...
... Registration Pre-registration is required for all courses and retreats unless otherwise indicated. Pre-registration will be evaluated one week prior to the start date of the course or retreat. If there are too few pre-registrants, the offering may be cancelled at the discretion of the teacher. Cance ...
See the April 2017 Newsletter
... severe ascetic practice. He survived because of the kindness of a young girl who gave him nourishment and cared for him until he was well enough to care for himself. Searching for truth in others – teachers, gurus, yogis – had not yielded the insight he sought, so Siddhartha determined to sit in med ...
... severe ascetic practice. He survived because of the kindness of a young girl who gave him nourishment and cared for him until he was well enough to care for himself. Searching for truth in others – teachers, gurus, yogis – had not yielded the insight he sought, so Siddhartha determined to sit in med ...
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 ...
pramāṇakīrtiḥ
... It would be an interesting task for the historian of modern Buddhist studies to follow the occasional process of estrangement between Buddhist pramāṇa studies and Buddhist studies in general. When and to what extent did such a rift arise? (It is clear, for instance, that in his time a scholar like S ...
... It would be an interesting task for the historian of modern Buddhist studies to follow the occasional process of estrangement between Buddhist pramāṇa studies and Buddhist studies in general. When and to what extent did such a rift arise? (It is clear, for instance, that in his time a scholar like S ...
Tevijja Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... The brahmin youths already know of the Buddha’s reputation as a wise teacher, “that the recluse Gotama knows the way to companionship with Brahmā” [§37], and so seeks an answer from the Buddha. This fact is remarkable in a number of ways. It means that the Buddha (at least in the minds of the two br ...
... The brahmin youths already know of the Buddha’s reputation as a wise teacher, “that the recluse Gotama knows the way to companionship with Brahmā” [§37], and so seeks an answer from the Buddha. This fact is remarkable in a number of ways. It means that the Buddha (at least in the minds of the two br ...
Kesaputtiya Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... not. It is interesting to see here how Buddhist epistemology is different from its Western philosophical counterpart, as P D Premasiri notes: The classical epistemological theories of the West fall into one of two principal traditions, viz, rationalism and empiricism. The consequence of the rational ...
... not. It is interesting to see here how Buddhist epistemology is different from its Western philosophical counterpart, as P D Premasiri notes: The classical epistemological theories of the West fall into one of two principal traditions, viz, rationalism and empiricism. The consequence of the rational ...
Merit Presentation
... 1. Refrain from harming living creatures 2. Refrain from taking what is not given 3. Refrain from sexual activity 4. Refrain from false speech 5. Refrain from intoxicants that cause heedlessness 6. Refrain from eating at the forbidden time 7. Refrain from attending entertainments, singing and dancin ...
... 1. Refrain from harming living creatures 2. Refrain from taking what is not given 3. Refrain from sexual activity 4. Refrain from false speech 5. Refrain from intoxicants that cause heedlessness 6. Refrain from eating at the forbidden time 7. Refrain from attending entertainments, singing and dancin ...
NiNi Zhu - Buddhism
... or “becoming”), and dhamma (“rule” or “law”)—and most involved the practice of yoga. According to tradition, the Buddha himself was a yogi—that is, a miracle-working ascetic. Buddhism, like many of the sects that developed in northeastern India at the time, was constituted by the presence of a char ...
... or “becoming”), and dhamma (“rule” or “law”)—and most involved the practice of yoga. According to tradition, the Buddha himself was a yogi—that is, a miracle-working ascetic. Buddhism, like many of the sects that developed in northeastern India at the time, was constituted by the presence of a char ...
wesak-option - Full Moon Meditations
... Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realize the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly ...
... Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realize the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly ...
Janussoni Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... 2.3 In addition to annual observances, the rite is also performed on special occasions, such as eclipses or at pilgrimage centres. Particular merit is attached to ceremonies performed at Gay (where the Buddha was awakened), Allahbd and Kurukshetra. Śrddha also serves to unite the living and the ...
... 2.3 In addition to annual observances, the rite is also performed on special occasions, such as eclipses or at pilgrimage centres. Particular merit is attached to ceremonies performed at Gay (where the Buddha was awakened), Allahbd and Kurukshetra. Śrddha also serves to unite the living and the ...
May - FPMT Losang Dragpa Centre
... turn the wheel of Dharma. When these 1000 Buddhas were Bodhisattvas, the bodhisattva who was to become Shakyamuni Buddha prayed to descend into our world at the time when the average lifespan of humans would be 100 years and we are the objects of Shaykamuni Buddha’s great compassion. We all have a c ...
... turn the wheel of Dharma. When these 1000 Buddhas were Bodhisattvas, the bodhisattva who was to become Shakyamuni Buddha prayed to descend into our world at the time when the average lifespan of humans would be 100 years and we are the objects of Shaykamuni Buddha’s great compassion. We all have a c ...
Ullambana Service - Ti-Sarana Buddhist Association
... Yuan Jie]are forburnt this year is fromand 13 toAugust to 10 September. Traditionally, during this period are elaborate offerings that to appease improve the pathetic condition of some There will be a Ullambana 21st to offerings, 27th August ...
... Yuan Jie]are forburnt this year is fromand 13 toAugust to 10 September. Traditionally, during this period are elaborate offerings that to appease improve the pathetic condition of some There will be a Ullambana 21st to offerings, 27th August ...
maitreya
... have now already experienced good fortune among human beings, I should make a further effort so as to proceed to the experiencing of divine good fortune. I now wish to shave off my hair and beard, don the three monastic robes, and go forth for the sake of the path. I entrust these four continents to ...
... have now already experienced good fortune among human beings, I should make a further effort so as to proceed to the experiencing of divine good fortune. I now wish to shave off my hair and beard, don the three monastic robes, and go forth for the sake of the path. I entrust these four continents to ...
Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
... ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act. There is a passage in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which Alice enters a room to find a bottle marked with the label "Drink Me." The label does not tell Alice what is inside the bottle but tells her what to do with i ...
... ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act. There is a passage in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which Alice enters a room to find a bottle marked with the label "Drink Me." The label does not tell Alice what is inside the bottle but tells her what to do with i ...
Noble Truths versus Dependent Origination Professor Oliver
... with a variety of modes of exposition and the fact that the tradition of the ancient teachers is available in unbroken continuity for the purpose of reference and consultation. Because of these two considerations I have courageously taken the difficult task of elucidating the teaching on Paṭiccasam ...
... with a variety of modes of exposition and the fact that the tradition of the ancient teachers is available in unbroken continuity for the purpose of reference and consultation. Because of these two considerations I have courageously taken the difficult task of elucidating the teaching on Paṭiccasam ...
Shintō Research in Japan and its Questions and
... ‘reverence’ or ‘disrespect’. Being the accumulated traditions of the ancestors maintained since ancient times, there can only be two attitudes towards it: respect or disrespect. It is not something in which we can separate truth from falseness so that we can say we believe, or don’t believe it. Here ...
... ‘reverence’ or ‘disrespect’. Being the accumulated traditions of the ancestors maintained since ancient times, there can only be two attitudes towards it: respect or disrespect. It is not something in which we can separate truth from falseness so that we can say we believe, or don’t believe it. Here ...
Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Path to Buddhahood
... rebirths, all sentient being have been ones own mother or father, not once but many times. Nāgārjuna says, citing a canonical source, that each of us in the course of our many previous lives has drunk more mothers’ milk than water in the four oceans. 15 Therefore, although we may not recognize them, ...
... rebirths, all sentient being have been ones own mother or father, not once but many times. Nāgārjuna says, citing a canonical source, that each of us in the course of our many previous lives has drunk more mothers’ milk than water in the four oceans. 15 Therefore, although we may not recognize them, ...
The Pursuit of Perfection - Fisher Digital Publications
... Hinduism accepts the concept of reincarnation, and that which determines the state of an individual in the next existence. This refers to karma, which is the actions that are undertaken by the body and the mind throughout a person’s life. In order to achieve good karma one must live life according ...
... Hinduism accepts the concept of reincarnation, and that which determines the state of an individual in the next existence. This refers to karma, which is the actions that are undertaken by the body and the mind throughout a person’s life. In order to achieve good karma one must live life according ...
Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in northeastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.The word Buddha means ""awakened one"" or ""the enlightened one"". ""Buddha"" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in a Yuga era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of the present age. Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the śramaṇa movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.