Consuming Buddhism: the Pursuit of Happiness
... needs, some Buddhists also view donating their blood, organs, or even their dead bodies as the beginning of eliminating their selfhood. Many also attempt to give the knowledge of Buddha’s teaching or Dhamma in the forms of CD, DVD, books, and leaflets to others as they believe giving Dhamma is the b ...
... needs, some Buddhists also view donating their blood, organs, or even their dead bodies as the beginning of eliminating their selfhood. Many also attempt to give the knowledge of Buddha’s teaching or Dhamma in the forms of CD, DVD, books, and leaflets to others as they believe giving Dhamma is the b ...
Samadhi - The Dharmafarers
... distracted from our main meditation or when we fall from concentration. And fourthly, these methods, when properly executed, lead on to samadhi, dhyana, and even insight wisdom.45 2.1.2 How to direct the mind to samadhi. The purpose of directed cultivation (paidhya bhāvanā) is clearly that of over ...
... distracted from our main meditation or when we fall from concentration. And fourthly, these methods, when properly executed, lead on to samadhi, dhyana, and even insight wisdom.45 2.1.2 How to direct the mind to samadhi. The purpose of directed cultivation (paidhya bhāvanā) is clearly that of over ...
JIABU, Vol. IX, 2016 - International Association of Buddhist
... paper on various leaders involved with engaged Buddhism, expressing their ideas on Nibbana. A leader from China is written about in Mr. Saiping An’s paper on Venerable Chin Kung, illuminating the idea of multicultural education, and how this brings social peace. Other leaders from the pages of Thai ...
... paper on various leaders involved with engaged Buddhism, expressing their ideas on Nibbana. A leader from China is written about in Mr. Saiping An’s paper on Venerable Chin Kung, illuminating the idea of multicultural education, and how this brings social peace. Other leaders from the pages of Thai ...
Facing the Future
... The arrival of a new century is always a time of great ferment and great expectations, and when the new century also marks the dawn of a new millennium our expectations are likely to be especially intense. An inherent optimism makes us think that the new is always bound to be better than the old, th ...
... The arrival of a new century is always a time of great ferment and great expectations, and when the new century also marks the dawn of a new millennium our expectations are likely to be especially intense. An inherent optimism makes us think that the new is always bound to be better than the old, th ...
the real birth place of buddha yesterday`s kapilavastu, today`s
... brothers of Utkal (Kalinga) and they embraced the new religious thoughts by Buddha. In one sense they could be called the first two converts. Buddha then went in their cart to the Mrugadava forest of Varanasi now called Saranatha and while these merchants were on the way back from Hastina, Buddha ca ...
... brothers of Utkal (Kalinga) and they embraced the new religious thoughts by Buddha. In one sense they could be called the first two converts. Buddha then went in their cart to the Mrugadava forest of Varanasi now called Saranatha and while these merchants were on the way back from Hastina, Buddha ca ...
Hitech Khadi Padmasambhava: The Lotus Born (2)
... Bon which is an animistic religion, worshipping ghosts, devas, gods, etc., together with ancestors' spirits. So beside Buddhist deities, Nyingma also believes in ghosts, devas and geographical gods such as gods of rivers, gods of mountains, gods of lands, gods of the sky, gods of the sea, gods of tr ...
... Bon which is an animistic religion, worshipping ghosts, devas, gods, etc., together with ancestors' spirits. So beside Buddhist deities, Nyingma also believes in ghosts, devas and geographical gods such as gods of rivers, gods of mountains, gods of lands, gods of the sky, gods of the sea, gods of tr ...
The Buddha`s Skillful Means
... this teaching that, we are told, convinced the chief fire-worshipper Uruvela Kasapa and his thousand followers to stop burning their bodies. Another example is the Buddha’s “First Sermon at Banaras” given to the five ascetics whom the Buddha once lived with in the mountains. As with the fireworshipp ...
... this teaching that, we are told, convinced the chief fire-worshipper Uruvela Kasapa and his thousand followers to stop burning their bodies. Another example is the Buddha’s “First Sermon at Banaras” given to the five ascetics whom the Buddha once lived with in the mountains. As with the fireworshipp ...
Buddhist Studies Semester I to IV
... Buddhism has been India’s greatest gift to Asia and indeed, to the rest of the world. Over the last fifty years, Buddhist Studies has grown into a complex field, with historical, philosophical, linguistic, and socio-cultural aspects which are being studied independently as well as in comparative lig ...
... Buddhism has been India’s greatest gift to Asia and indeed, to the rest of the world. Over the last fifty years, Buddhist Studies has grown into a complex field, with historical, philosophical, linguistic, and socio-cultural aspects which are being studied independently as well as in comparative lig ...
Western Buddhist Motivations for Vegetarianism, 9(3): 385-411. Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion,
... they n'ere thoueht to result in future injury to oneself. The Buddha's first teachine, the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths, lays out the philosophical context for non-harming by explaining the nature, oriein, and cessation of suffering. To stop the sufferinu of aneuish, attachment, grasping, desir ...
... they n'ere thoueht to result in future injury to oneself. The Buddha's first teachine, the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths, lays out the philosophical context for non-harming by explaining the nature, oriein, and cessation of suffering. To stop the sufferinu of aneuish, attachment, grasping, desir ...
Will the marriage between Pragmatism and Buddhism last?
... difference in abstract truth that doesn't express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in conduct consequent upon that fact, imposed on somebody, somehow, somewhere and somewhen. The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, at d ...
... difference in abstract truth that doesn't express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in conduct consequent upon that fact, imposed on somebody, somehow, somewhere and somewhen. The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, at d ...
BUDDHIST WELL-BEING Christopher W. Gowans Fordham
... common-sensical. From this perspective, a criterion of adequacy of a theory of well-being is its capacity to explain our intuitions.6 The divide between the subjective and the objective theories is partly based on conflicting philosophical intuitions about the source of value that inform many meta-e ...
... common-sensical. From this perspective, a criterion of adequacy of a theory of well-being is its capacity to explain our intuitions.6 The divide between the subjective and the objective theories is partly based on conflicting philosophical intuitions about the source of value that inform many meta-e ...
Good Question, Good Answer - Visuddha Meditation Centre
... in Buddhist teaching, the fact that Buddhism is human-centered, rather than god-centered, that we must look within not without to find perfection and understanding. So to say that Buddhists worship idols is not correct. QUESTION: Why do people do all kinds of strange things in Buddhist temples? ANSW ...
... in Buddhist teaching, the fact that Buddhism is human-centered, rather than god-centered, that we must look within not without to find perfection and understanding. So to say that Buddhists worship idols is not correct. QUESTION: Why do people do all kinds of strange things in Buddhist temples? ANSW ...
The electronic Journal of East and Central Asian Religions
... ritual manuals of both Daoism and Esoteric Buddhism, mainly canonical material, I figured that by concentrating on this major aspect of ritual practice, which played and still plays central roles in both religions, I would most likely encounter many cases reflecting their interaction. In other words ...
... ritual manuals of both Daoism and Esoteric Buddhism, mainly canonical material, I figured that by concentrating on this major aspect of ritual practice, which played and still plays central roles in both religions, I would most likely encounter many cases reflecting their interaction. In other words ...
puñña kusala sukka
... note, however, that while some meritorious actions will be purposefully aimed at these goals, others are thought of as simply having such results without their being aimed for — an important point to which we will return. The term kusala is usually translated as either “skillful” or “wholesome”: kus ...
... note, however, that while some meritorious actions will be purposefully aimed at these goals, others are thought of as simply having such results without their being aimed for — an important point to which we will return. The term kusala is usually translated as either “skillful” or “wholesome”: kus ...
Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility
... Analysis suggests first that common sense realism about the reality of partite wholes—the appearance/reality gap-denying view that partite wholes are just as real as they appear to be—is naïve. This recognition leads to mereological (part/whole) reductionism, the view that less real conventional rea ...
... Analysis suggests first that common sense realism about the reality of partite wholes—the appearance/reality gap-denying view that partite wholes are just as real as they appear to be—is naïve. This recognition leads to mereological (part/whole) reductionism, the view that less real conventional rea ...
“I`d rather have Eternal Emptiness”1—Goethe and Buddhism
... “Only he who observes has conscience; the acting are always unconscionable.”15 Here we find both antipodes that are described with this verdict, i.e. Faust who acts unconscionably, and here the observer who, through his calm contemplating, so to speak Buddhist enlightened state, gains insight in the ...
... “Only he who observes has conscience; the acting are always unconscionable.”15 Here we find both antipodes that are described with this verdict, i.e. Faust who acts unconscionably, and here the observer who, through his calm contemplating, so to speak Buddhist enlightened state, gains insight in the ...
the early buddhist teaching on the theory and practice of moral life
... it sees no reason why we should sacrifice immediate sense pleasures for the sake of an elusive bliss in a dubious future. In Buddhism’s assessment both self-mortification and sensual indulgence are equally selfdefeating practices: The practice of self-mortification is ignoble (anariya), fraught with ...
... it sees no reason why we should sacrifice immediate sense pleasures for the sake of an elusive bliss in a dubious future. In Buddhism’s assessment both self-mortification and sensual indulgence are equally selfdefeating practices: The practice of self-mortification is ignoble (anariya), fraught with ...
Buddhist Practice as Play: A Virtue Ethical View
... functional meaning as “a good gardener” and in a moral meaning as in “a good person.” In both cases, “good” is used in the sense of “suited to achieve the internal goal.” The continuity of these two meanings of the word “good” was one the main points for Anscombe and Foot when they breathed new life ...
... functional meaning as “a good gardener” and in a moral meaning as in “a good person.” In both cases, “good” is used in the sense of “suited to achieve the internal goal.” The continuity of these two meanings of the word “good” was one the main points for Anscombe and Foot when they breathed new life ...
Parinirvana Day Celebration
... If you have any items for inclusion in next month’s edition, please contact us by 20th of the month. This edition of the newsletter was produced by The Centre Team. Newcastle Buddhist Centre 3rd Floor 9-11 Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6UF ...
... If you have any items for inclusion in next month’s edition, please contact us by 20th of the month. This edition of the newsletter was produced by The Centre Team. Newcastle Buddhist Centre 3rd Floor 9-11 Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6UF ...
Siddhartha – Background Information on the Novel, Buddhism
... that no one can teach him the way to himself. Siddhartha feels “like a newborn baby”. • In Chapter Eight, in desperation, Siddhartha lets himself fall into the river just as he hears the word, “Om.” As a result, he becomes “awakened” and is ...
... that no one can teach him the way to himself. Siddhartha feels “like a newborn baby”. • In Chapter Eight, in desperation, Siddhartha lets himself fall into the river just as he hears the word, “Om.” As a result, he becomes “awakened” and is ...
Buddhism, Children and the Naga
... and practice. It is especially famous for its inclusiveness, a point reflected in the vast array of characters inhabiting its verses -- thousands of monks, nuns, laymen and women, bodhisattvas, gods, titans, centaurs, demigods, monstrous birds, ogres, ghosts etc. The Lotus is also notable for its us ...
... and practice. It is especially famous for its inclusiveness, a point reflected in the vast array of characters inhabiting its verses -- thousands of monks, nuns, laymen and women, bodhisattvas, gods, titans, centaurs, demigods, monstrous birds, ogres, ghosts etc. The Lotus is also notable for its us ...
The Bare-Bones Instructions to “Mindfulness of Breathing”
... Whereas, in Buddhism we learn to see how the experiences we have are nothing more than an ever-changing ”process” (called dependent origination). We learn that getting involved with these thoughts and feelings personally, or taking them to be ”me or mine”, is the cause of great unhappiness and suffe ...
... Whereas, in Buddhism we learn to see how the experiences we have are nothing more than an ever-changing ”process” (called dependent origination). We learn that getting involved with these thoughts and feelings personally, or taking them to be ”me or mine”, is the cause of great unhappiness and suffe ...
Healing Power of Mindfulness Meditation
... At the International Centre I met one individual who had been cured of a heart-condition of near-fatal proportions some five years before. Both diagnosis and cure were backed up by competent medical testimony. ...
... At the International Centre I met one individual who had been cured of a heart-condition of near-fatal proportions some five years before. Both diagnosis and cure were backed up by competent medical testimony. ...
SRI LANKA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST
... In the Theravàda tradition the lineage of bhikkhunãs died out some thousand years ago. Present day attempts to revive this lineage meet with opposition. In what follows I examine arguments raised by opponents to the revival of bhikkhunã ordination. I begin with the legal aspect, followed by taking u ...
... In the Theravàda tradition the lineage of bhikkhunãs died out some thousand years ago. Present day attempts to revive this lineage meet with opposition. In what follows I examine arguments raised by opponents to the revival of bhikkhunã ordination. I begin with the legal aspect, followed by taking u ...