Buddhism: The Awakening of Wisdom and Compassion
... The Ksitigarbha Sutra The Great Perfection After understanding the goals and principles of the Buddha’s teachings, we need to deepen our understanding of the Dharma. What is the Dharma? It is the true reality of life and the universe, all the teachings of the Buddhas, which are included in sutras. T ...
... The Ksitigarbha Sutra The Great Perfection After understanding the goals and principles of the Buddha’s teachings, we need to deepen our understanding of the Dharma. What is the Dharma? It is the true reality of life and the universe, all the teachings of the Buddhas, which are included in sutras. T ...
Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology
... Buddhist viewpoint, mind or consciousness is the core of our existence. Pleasure and pain, good and evil, time and space, life and death have no meaning to us apart from our awareness of them or thoughts about them. Whether God exists or does not exist, whether existence is primarily spiritual or pr ...
... Buddhist viewpoint, mind or consciousness is the core of our existence. Pleasure and pain, good and evil, time and space, life and death have no meaning to us apart from our awareness of them or thoughts about them. Whether God exists or does not exist, whether existence is primarily spiritual or pr ...
Lay Buddhist Practice - Buddhist Publication Society
... layman must rely upon books. Leaving aside those which are misleading (frequently written by western people who have never thoroughly trained themselves in any Buddhist tradition) and if even the most authentic sources alone are studied, still the mind tends to be selective of the materials availabl ...
... layman must rely upon books. Leaving aside those which are misleading (frequently written by western people who have never thoroughly trained themselves in any Buddhist tradition) and if even the most authentic sources alone are studied, still the mind tends to be selective of the materials availabl ...
Nietzsche and The Four Noble Truths
... -4Antichrist 49) by blaming the devil and sin for people’s suffering, Buddhism does not. Instead of speaking of a “struggle with sin,” Nietzsche observes, the Buddhist speaks of a “struggle with suffering” (Nietzsche, The Antichrist 20). Buddhism, Nietzsche further asserts, does not have to justify ...
... -4Antichrist 49) by blaming the devil and sin for people’s suffering, Buddhism does not. Instead of speaking of a “struggle with sin,” Nietzsche observes, the Buddhist speaks of a “struggle with suffering” (Nietzsche, The Antichrist 20). Buddhism, Nietzsche further asserts, does not have to justify ...
here - Steamboat Buddhist Center
... Cittamatra school. (Tib. sem tsampa) A school founded by Asanga in the fourth century and is usually translated as the Mind-only school. It is one of the four major schools (the others being the two Rangtong – Svatantrika and Prasangika – and Shentong) in the Mahayana tradition and its main tenet (t ...
... Cittamatra school. (Tib. sem tsampa) A school founded by Asanga in the fourth century and is usually translated as the Mind-only school. It is one of the four major schools (the others being the two Rangtong – Svatantrika and Prasangika – and Shentong) in the Mahayana tradition and its main tenet (t ...
Images of Buddha
... great deal of time in quiet contemplation and in the company of animals and nature.While in his youth, Siddhartha visited the capital of his father's kingdom.With each ensuing visits came greater perspectives about the suffering experienced in this life. Siddhartha first saw an elderly man shackled ...
... great deal of time in quiet contemplation and in the company of animals and nature.While in his youth, Siddhartha visited the capital of his father's kingdom.With each ensuing visits came greater perspectives about the suffering experienced in this life. Siddhartha first saw an elderly man shackled ...
Untitled - Abhidharma.ru
... A Guide to the Deities of the Tantra spiritual teacher that this fantasy is taking on a tremendous reality for her. The guru is pleased with her progress. I have chosen these examples as stark demonstrations of the very different world we are entering in this book. The two previous books in this se ...
... A Guide to the Deities of the Tantra spiritual teacher that this fantasy is taking on a tremendous reality for her. The guru is pleased with her progress. I have chosen these examples as stark demonstrations of the very different world we are entering in this book. The two previous books in this se ...
samsara - cont`d - Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre
... Buddhists will often set aside a room or a part of a room as a shrine. There will be a statue of Buddha, candles, and an incense burner. ...
... Buddhists will often set aside a room or a part of a room as a shrine. There will be a statue of Buddha, candles, and an incense burner. ...
Aggañña Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... beginning of things (aggañña), and not only that, but what is higher than this.”2 This statement is very significant when we consider the fact that a central concern of the Upaniṣadic thinkers of the Buddha’s time concerns the beginnings, so that the creation stories beginning with “in the beginning ...
... beginning of things (aggañña), and not only that, but what is higher than this.”2 This statement is very significant when we consider the fact that a central concern of the Upaniṣadic thinkers of the Buddha’s time concerns the beginnings, so that the creation stories beginning with “in the beginning ...
The development and use of the Eight Precepts for lay practitioners
... in mind. A ‘course of action’ (kammapatha) is a completed ‘historical act’ regarded as continuing from the first planning of it down to the carrying of it out, which ‘course’ involves body and/or speech. The ‘choice’ (cetanā) here is the momentary mental willing (or ‘affirmation’) at each and every ...
... in mind. A ‘course of action’ (kammapatha) is a completed ‘historical act’ regarded as continuing from the first planning of it down to the carrying of it out, which ‘course’ involves body and/or speech. The ‘choice’ (cetanā) here is the momentary mental willing (or ‘affirmation’) at each and every ...
Lay Ritual in the Early Buddhist Art of India
... Almost all of the known early relief carvings depicting lay activities occur as part of the iconographic programs of the type of Buddhist reliquary monument known as a stupa. At Stupa 1 at Sanchi (Figure 1), the carvings occur on the four gateways to the monument, each of which is decorated with rel ...
... Almost all of the known early relief carvings depicting lay activities occur as part of the iconographic programs of the type of Buddhist reliquary monument known as a stupa. At Stupa 1 at Sanchi (Figure 1), the carvings occur on the four gateways to the monument, each of which is decorated with rel ...
Zhuan Falun (Volume II)
... People had to figure out everything for themselves. Human beings are in delusion and don’t know anything. It’s just very hard for them to gain insight into things. What Buddha Shakyamuni left to man during his lifetime was primarily the monastic precepts. When Buddha Shakyamuni eventually approache ...
... People had to figure out everything for themselves. Human beings are in delusion and don’t know anything. It’s just very hard for them to gain insight into things. What Buddha Shakyamuni left to man during his lifetime was primarily the monastic precepts. When Buddha Shakyamuni eventually approache ...
1.4 Why the Buddha “Hesitated” To Teach B S
... why, when the Bodhisattva had long ago made an aspiration to reach Buddhahood in order to liberate others, was his mind now bent towards inaction? The reason, the commentator says, is that only now, after reaching awakening, does he fully realize the strength of the defilements in people’s minds and ...
... why, when the Bodhisattva had long ago made an aspiration to reach Buddhahood in order to liberate others, was his mind now bent towards inaction? The reason, the commentator says, is that only now, after reaching awakening, does he fully realize the strength of the defilements in people’s minds and ...
Volume 7 – No. 1 - Buddhist Discussion Centre
... Since the last major forest fire was not since "Ash Wednesday" (1983), most Members had not seen the fury of a forest fire first hand. Those who staffed our Centre in this real emergency were taught how to overcome their instinctive fear of being burnt to death when they saw the fire. Then, overcom ...
... Since the last major forest fire was not since "Ash Wednesday" (1983), most Members had not seen the fury of a forest fire first hand. Those who staffed our Centre in this real emergency were taught how to overcome their instinctive fear of being burnt to death when they saw the fire. Then, overcom ...
Two Buddhisms Further Considered
... America from what he called the ‘missionary religion’ taught by Asian Buddhist teachers to non-Asian converts. ‘While both groups claim to be Buddhist’, Hori explained, ‘each approaches Buddhism from quite a different starting point’ (1994, 50). Rick Fields commented on the past, present, and future ...
... America from what he called the ‘missionary religion’ taught by Asian Buddhist teachers to non-Asian converts. ‘While both groups claim to be Buddhist’, Hori explained, ‘each approaches Buddhism from quite a different starting point’ (1994, 50). Rick Fields commented on the past, present, and future ...
JBE Research Article Good or Skilful? Kusala in Canon and Commentary ISSN 1076-9005
... (vijjà-bhàgiya) i.e. lead to the three knowledges.43 When in the Mahà-hatthi-padopama-sutta Sàriputta tells (M I 184) us that all skilful dhammas are included in the four noble truths, we should again interpret skilful dhammas here as referring to meditational states. Indeed, this is made clear late ...
... (vijjà-bhàgiya) i.e. lead to the three knowledges.43 When in the Mahà-hatthi-padopama-sutta Sàriputta tells (M I 184) us that all skilful dhammas are included in the four noble truths, we should again interpret skilful dhammas here as referring to meditational states. Indeed, this is made clear late ...
Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible
... Burmese Theravada Buddhism and any changes that may have occurred in that tradition as a result of its relocation to the southern region of the United States. However, the American interest in Buddhism is hard to ignore. While conducting textual research on Buddhism in America and in the American So ...
... Burmese Theravada Buddhism and any changes that may have occurred in that tradition as a result of its relocation to the southern region of the United States. However, the American interest in Buddhism is hard to ignore. While conducting textual research on Buddhism in America and in the American So ...
The Four Realities True for Noble Ones: Ariyasacca Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... 1. If we interpret A as a verbal statement, then the sentences (idameva saccaṃ mogham aññaṃ) should be interpreted as “Only this (i.e., the statement A) is sacca; any other statement to the contrary is not.” Then the term sacca will mean “verbally true.” The example above would mean: “The self and t ...
... 1. If we interpret A as a verbal statement, then the sentences (idameva saccaṃ mogham aññaṃ) should be interpreted as “Only this (i.e., the statement A) is sacca; any other statement to the contrary is not.” Then the term sacca will mean “verbally true.” The example above would mean: “The self and t ...
Contentment, Compassion and Wisdom, a Buddhist Perspective
... something for each and everyone to be happy, this is love. What is bodhicitta? Bodhicitta is based on compassion and love, but here we make a wish that may this being be completely free of all the suffering of samsara, and we take the commitment to do something so that we can help them to attain the ...
... something for each and everyone to be happy, this is love. What is bodhicitta? Bodhicitta is based on compassion and love, but here we make a wish that may this being be completely free of all the suffering of samsara, and we take the commitment to do something so that we can help them to attain the ...
Transcript of the teachings by Geshe Chonyi
... attainment the reality (emptiness) that was realised in meditative equipoise on the path of meditation.”2 (Subsequent attainment is also translated as the post meditative equipoise). As explained in the Lamrim, meditation on emptiness in meditative equipoise is called the space-like meditative equip ...
... attainment the reality (emptiness) that was realised in meditative equipoise on the path of meditation.”2 (Subsequent attainment is also translated as the post meditative equipoise). As explained in the Lamrim, meditation on emptiness in meditative equipoise is called the space-like meditative equip ...
Deconstruction, Zen Buddhism and the Ethical
... Deconstructive operations do not deny the fact that decisions should be made in our daily lives and especially in the public and political realms. Conversely, the fact that decisions are there to be made each and every moment of our personal and public life does not mean that the appropriation of t ...
... Deconstructive operations do not deny the fact that decisions should be made in our daily lives and especially in the public and political realms. Conversely, the fact that decisions are there to be made each and every moment of our personal and public life does not mean that the appropriation of t ...
use of theses - ANU Repository
... Rhys Davids is of the same opinion: "Gautama was born and brought up and lived ...
... Rhys Davids is of the same opinion: "Gautama was born and brought up and lived ...
a study on the i-pu-tsung-lun-lun
... the Chinese meāning here: “The Arhats said, “You can’t speak like that, you had better to dwell in some secluded place and quickly attain Arhatship. Then you may come to this assembly, it will not be too late.” ...
... the Chinese meāning here: “The Arhats said, “You can’t speak like that, you had better to dwell in some secluded place and quickly attain Arhatship. Then you may come to this assembly, it will not be too late.” ...
Practices and wisdom in Nichiren Buddhism
... I encountered Buddhism and counselling around the same time. While I was an undergraduate university student interested in psychology and counselling, my mother introduced me to an international lay Buddhist organization, the Soka Gakkai International, which belongs to the Japanse school of Buddhism ...
... I encountered Buddhism and counselling around the same time. While I was an undergraduate university student interested in psychology and counselling, my mother introduced me to an international lay Buddhist organization, the Soka Gakkai International, which belongs to the Japanse school of Buddhism ...
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment
... his is the second book published by Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications for free distribution. We have been very gratified by the excellent response to our first, Mirror of Wisdom, by Venerable Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen, our spiritual master and director, and feel sure that readers will enjoy Illuminatin ...
... his is the second book published by Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications for free distribution. We have been very gratified by the excellent response to our first, Mirror of Wisdom, by Venerable Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen, our spiritual master and director, and feel sure that readers will enjoy Illuminatin ...