Karma, Character, and Consequentialism
... Of course, much effort and debate went into clarifying the nature of karma and its operation. However, there appears to have been no substantial revision or development in the basic concept. Some modification might have been expected from the Mahāyāna schools in the course of their revisioning of ot ...
... Of course, much effort and debate went into clarifying the nature of karma and its operation. However, there appears to have been no substantial revision or development in the basic concept. Some modification might have been expected from the Mahāyāna schools in the course of their revisioning of ot ...
An invitation to broaden our definition and
... in my opinion not containing the richness of Mindfulness. This quality first of all can be used for anything – even very useless or damaging purposes. Secondly the skills can be further ...
... in my opinion not containing the richness of Mindfulness. This quality first of all can be used for anything – even very useless or damaging purposes. Secondly the skills can be further ...
Talk One
... The Treatise on Response and Retribution arrives at this same conclusion. It explains that if we have a kind heart, say kind words and do kind deeds, then virtuous spirits will protect us. The Pure Land School teaches that reciting "Amituofo" ensures birth into the Western Pure Land. Presently, ther ...
... The Treatise on Response and Retribution arrives at this same conclusion. It explains that if we have a kind heart, say kind words and do kind deeds, then virtuous spirits will protect us. The Pure Land School teaches that reciting "Amituofo" ensures birth into the Western Pure Land. Presently, ther ...
EMPEROR YONG ZHENG
... said the purpose of all the Three Teachings in China was to help people break through their delusions and be enlightened, to help them leave their mis eries and to reach for happiness. Thus the goal of the teachings is exactly the same. It is also the goal of education in China. The Three Teachings ...
... said the purpose of all the Three Teachings in China was to help people break through their delusions and be enlightened, to help them leave their mis eries and to reach for happiness. Thus the goal of the teachings is exactly the same. It is also the goal of education in China. The Three Teachings ...
What Buddhists Believe Expanded 4th edition
... Venerable Dhammananda, I hope the Buddhist Summit will develop further and the light of Buddhism will shine over the entire world. This book, written by Venerable Dhammananda mainly from the Theravada perspective, is a good introduction to Buddhism. It explains basic principles of Buddhism in detail ...
... Venerable Dhammananda, I hope the Buddhist Summit will develop further and the light of Buddhism will shine over the entire world. This book, written by Venerable Dhammananda mainly from the Theravada perspective, is a good introduction to Buddhism. It explains basic principles of Buddhism in detail ...
new year`s greeting - Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple
... like tests, homework or even by going up to Mt. Hiei in what this means (don’t forget we have dharma classes Kyoto, but by simply LISTENING to the words that are of the week!) and why having our Los Angeles every day being spoken by our ministers. When we have questions, Hompa Hongwanji Betsuin is s ...
... like tests, homework or even by going up to Mt. Hiei in what this means (don’t forget we have dharma classes Kyoto, but by simply LISTENING to the words that are of the week!) and why having our Los Angeles every day being spoken by our ministers. When we have questions, Hompa Hongwanji Betsuin is s ...
What Buddhists Believe
... Venerable Dhammananda, I hope the Buddhist Summit will develop further and the light of Buddhism will shine over the entire world. This book, written by Venerable Dhammananda mainly from the Theravada perspective, is a good introduction to Buddhism. It explains basic principles of Buddhism in detail ...
... Venerable Dhammananda, I hope the Buddhist Summit will develop further and the light of Buddhism will shine over the entire world. This book, written by Venerable Dhammananda mainly from the Theravada perspective, is a good introduction to Buddhism. It explains basic principles of Buddhism in detail ...
Acknowledgment
... tightly onto any things/incidents that concern us, beit praise, criticism, reputation, status, our things, our body, our friends, etc. Attachment is like a string that ties us down, and makes us lose our freedom. When changes happen to the things that we are attached The year 2007 was a busy year fo ...
... tightly onto any things/incidents that concern us, beit praise, criticism, reputation, status, our things, our body, our friends, etc. Attachment is like a string that ties us down, and makes us lose our freedom. When changes happen to the things that we are attached The year 2007 was a busy year fo ...
Influences of Previous Psychedelic Drug
... psychedelics. Some of these people were permanently changed in the long run, but many remained the same, basic, neurotic people they had always been; they just spoke of bad "vibrations" and "karma" instead of arguments at work and car accidents. It was as if, having seen a very inspiring movie on h ...
... psychedelics. Some of these people were permanently changed in the long run, but many remained the same, basic, neurotic people they had always been; they just spoke of bad "vibrations" and "karma" instead of arguments at work and car accidents. It was as if, having seen a very inspiring movie on h ...
Kierkegaard`s Stages Toward Authentic Religious Experience And
... met while in the aesthetic stage. He would meet and fall in love with Regina Olsen, a lovely young lady of Copenhagen. She was to effect his life, in one way or another, until he died. As mentioned earlier, this was something of a religious experience for young Kierkegaard. He fell deeply in love wi ...
... met while in the aesthetic stage. He would meet and fall in love with Regina Olsen, a lovely young lady of Copenhagen. She was to effect his life, in one way or another, until he died. As mentioned earlier, this was something of a religious experience for young Kierkegaard. He fell deeply in love wi ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... The forest has held an ambiguous and ambivalent place in Buddhist history. It is featured prominently in major moments of the Buddha’s life story as the place of his birth, enlightenment, and death. It is also perceived as a place of fear, resistance, escape, sickness, spirits, danger, and temptatio ...
... The forest has held an ambiguous and ambivalent place in Buddhist history. It is featured prominently in major moments of the Buddha’s life story as the place of his birth, enlightenment, and death. It is also perceived as a place of fear, resistance, escape, sickness, spirits, danger, and temptatio ...
Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
... All of this happens with twenty total strangers around, yet the atmosphere is one of safety and trust. For although those assembled come from all walks of life and from all around the planet, they are all united at this one moment and place as saha-dhammika “fellow Dhamma-farers” or, to use another ...
... All of this happens with twenty total strangers around, yet the atmosphere is one of safety and trust. For although those assembled come from all walks of life and from all around the planet, they are all united at this one moment and place as saha-dhammika “fellow Dhamma-farers” or, to use another ...
Tevijja Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... “doors,” which are opened, as it were, by our regarding each of them as being “(mentally) constructed [mind-made], intentionally formed. 8 What is constructed and intentionally formed is impermanent, subject to ending.”9 1.4.1.2 Note that the 4 divine abodes are listed amongst the 11 bases of medita ...
... “doors,” which are opened, as it were, by our regarding each of them as being “(mentally) constructed [mind-made], intentionally formed. 8 What is constructed and intentionally formed is impermanent, subject to ending.”9 1.4.1.2 Note that the 4 divine abodes are listed amongst the 11 bases of medita ...
The Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism
... Buddhism1 and Mahāyāna schools of Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, and Tathāgatagarbha. “School” as used in this booklet does not mean distinct institutional establishment, but tradition of thought. From India, Buddhism spread and evolved into Southern Buddhism (i.e., present day Theravāda) in Sri Lanka, Thail ...
... Buddhism1 and Mahāyāna schools of Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, and Tathāgatagarbha. “School” as used in this booklet does not mean distinct institutional establishment, but tradition of thought. From India, Buddhism spread and evolved into Southern Buddhism (i.e., present day Theravāda) in Sri Lanka, Thail ...
Protecting Oneself and Others Through Mindfulness – The Acrobat
... Hence, even without having developed the brahmavihāras up to jhāna level and then using this to develop insight and become an arahant, there seems to be considerable scope for protection of others to benefit oneself. As the Saṃyukta-āgama parallel to the Sedaka-sutta points out, one who protects oth ...
... Hence, even without having developed the brahmavihāras up to jhāna level and then using this to develop insight and become an arahant, there seems to be considerable scope for protection of others to benefit oneself. As the Saṃyukta-āgama parallel to the Sedaka-sutta points out, one who protects oth ...
Canonical Jātaka Tales in Comparative Perspective
... trsl. in Sahai 1996: 326); whereas another Lao version (trsl. in Sahai 1976: 34-74; cf. also Deydier 1952) does not take the form of a jātaka. Malaysian versions (summarized in Stutterheim 1925: 28-63 or Zieseniss 1928: 7-64) do not take the form of a jātaka (though similar to the Dasaratha-jātaka, ...
... trsl. in Sahai 1996: 326); whereas another Lao version (trsl. in Sahai 1976: 34-74; cf. also Deydier 1952) does not take the form of a jātaka. Malaysian versions (summarized in Stutterheim 1925: 28-63 or Zieseniss 1928: 7-64) do not take the form of a jātaka (though similar to the Dasaratha-jātaka, ...
A Golden Ring
... clear mind. Nevertheless, even if we adopt certain practices to train our minds and thereby regain our ability to concentrate with a clear mind, it is no guarantee that such practices would free us from prejudice. Furthermore, unless we are able to reflect upon our views, the more we learn to concen ...
... clear mind. Nevertheless, even if we adopt certain practices to train our minds and thereby regain our ability to concentrate with a clear mind, it is no guarantee that such practices would free us from prejudice. Furthermore, unless we are able to reflect upon our views, the more we learn to concen ...
Fo Guang Shan Buddhism and Ethical Conversations
... Fo Guang Shan is one of a number of Buddhist organizations that have emerged in Taiwan since the end of martial law in the 1980s. Originally founded in the 1950s and 1960s as a publishing business, and later a single temple, by its leader, Master Hsing Yun, Fo Guang Shan rapidly expanded in the 1990 ...
... Fo Guang Shan is one of a number of Buddhist organizations that have emerged in Taiwan since the end of martial law in the 1980s. Originally founded in the 1950s and 1960s as a publishing business, and later a single temple, by its leader, Master Hsing Yun, Fo Guang Shan rapidly expanded in the 1990 ...
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online
... enabled Buddhism to become a Chinese religion. Accordingly, Daoists thought that “Buddhism was a new method of obtaining immortality. They felt that the Buddhist nirvana was not different from the Taoist salvation, the arhat like the Taoist [zhenren], or pure man.”4 This early perception of Buddhism ...
... enabled Buddhism to become a Chinese religion. Accordingly, Daoists thought that “Buddhism was a new method of obtaining immortality. They felt that the Buddhist nirvana was not different from the Taoist salvation, the arhat like the Taoist [zhenren], or pure man.”4 This early perception of Buddhism ...
How to Prostrate
... always awkward: highly deliberate and contrived. This is true for any skill we wish to acquire. Take playing the piano, for instance. First one struggles to hammer out Chopsticks progressing by stages until one can comfortably manage Chopin. But there the similarity ends. Our aspiring pianist may no ...
... always awkward: highly deliberate and contrived. This is true for any skill we wish to acquire. Take playing the piano, for instance. First one struggles to hammer out Chopsticks progressing by stages until one can comfortably manage Chopin. But there the similarity ends. Our aspiring pianist may no ...
PDF - Chan Meditation Center
... In this situation, the more some people study Buddhadharma, the more frustrated they can become. But if we realistically apply standards appropriate to ordinary human beings, if we use Dharma as our guide and strive to accomplish what ordinary humans can, this wisdom can lead us to the other shore. ...
... In this situation, the more some people study Buddhadharma, the more frustrated they can become. But if we realistically apply standards appropriate to ordinary human beings, if we use Dharma as our guide and strive to accomplish what ordinary humans can, this wisdom can lead us to the other shore. ...
vi death ad rebirth
... nothing that comes out of one body and enters another. Events take place according to the Law of Dependent Origination or Paticca Samuppada. Everything comes into existence depending on an instance previous to it and everything must also give rise to an instance, depending on itself. In the Paticca ...
... nothing that comes out of one body and enters another. Events take place according to the Law of Dependent Origination or Paticca Samuppada. Everything comes into existence depending on an instance previous to it and everything must also give rise to an instance, depending on itself. In the Paticca ...
Noble Truths versus Dependent Origination Professor Oliver
... represent the precursor of the Paṭṭhāna, the last book of the Abhidhammapitaka. The Paṭiccasamuppādakathā of the Kathāvatthu is again a short exposition where the point of view of the Pubbaseliyas and Mahisāsakas to the effect that Dependent Origination was unconditioned is rejected by the Theravādi ...
... represent the precursor of the Paṭṭhāna, the last book of the Abhidhammapitaka. The Paṭiccasamuppādakathā of the Kathāvatthu is again a short exposition where the point of view of the Pubbaseliyas and Mahisāsakas to the effect that Dependent Origination was unconditioned is rejected by the Theravādi ...
Man Religion Society Governance in Buddhism
... Nirvana. In Buddha's own words in the Ariyapariyesana Sutta, this termination is described as `This is my last birth. I have no more continuance in the life process of bhava'[... ayaṃ antimā jāti natthi'dāni punabbhavo - MN. I. 167]. These two adjacent concepts of bhava and jāti now being clearly pr ...
... Nirvana. In Buddha's own words in the Ariyapariyesana Sutta, this termination is described as `This is my last birth. I have no more continuance in the life process of bhava'[... ayaṃ antimā jāti natthi'dāni punabbhavo - MN. I. 167]. These two adjacent concepts of bhava and jāti now being clearly pr ...
... Mahāyāna phenomenon. As Gombrich states, "[i]n early Buddhism, the Buddha was a saviour only in the sense that he taught the way to salvation. In the Mahāyāna, both Buddhas and bodhisattvas saved more directly, by transferring merit," (Gombrich 1997: 57). If he is correct when he goes on to suggest ...