Influences of Previous Psychedelic Drug
... influences and inspires me. I recall that I have seen/felt/tasted the god-like perfection shining in otherwise ordinary human beings, knowing that at some higher level this is always there; we just don't see it. This is my model for knowing that it is possible to experience perfection in the teacher ...
... influences and inspires me. I recall that I have seen/felt/tasted the god-like perfection shining in otherwise ordinary human beings, knowing that at some higher level this is always there; we just don't see it. This is my model for knowing that it is possible to experience perfection in the teacher ...
Return Tranquility
... desires and actions begin with the thoughts we think. Thought precedes one’s experience (mano pubbangama dhamma). Modern cognitive psychologists have now begun to realize this. This means, “As we think, so we feel, as we feel, so we act, as we act, so we reap the results of our actions.” Our destiny ...
... desires and actions begin with the thoughts we think. Thought precedes one’s experience (mano pubbangama dhamma). Modern cognitive psychologists have now begun to realize this. This means, “As we think, so we feel, as we feel, so we act, as we act, so we reap the results of our actions.” Our destiny ...
FROM BUDDHA`S LIPS TO FREUD`S EARS: A
... themselves instead of thinking of the larger group first and viewed their survival and their possible salvation separately from one another (Safran, 10). The belief that emerged from this individualistic way of thinking was called Eternalism, or self‐ immortality. Eternalism is the view that the s ...
... themselves instead of thinking of the larger group first and viewed their survival and their possible salvation separately from one another (Safran, 10). The belief that emerged from this individualistic way of thinking was called Eternalism, or self‐ immortality. Eternalism is the view that the s ...
The Concept of Goddesses in Buddhist Tantra Traditions
... prāņa (breath) within the body. Different schools of philosophy developed in the post-Vedic period exhibit a tendency to have control over the unseen world through similar means. In the early medieval period all such practice led to the development of a coherent set of techniques which appeared in a ...
... prāņa (breath) within the body. Different schools of philosophy developed in the post-Vedic period exhibit a tendency to have control over the unseen world through similar means. In the early medieval period all such practice led to the development of a coherent set of techniques which appeared in a ...
ONE
... At any given time the newer developments did not entirely supersede the older ones. The older schools coexisted with the new ones, although they were often profoundly modified by them. The old Buddhism of the first period absorbed in the second a good many of the tenets of the Maháyána and the conta ...
... At any given time the newer developments did not entirely supersede the older ones. The older schools coexisted with the new ones, although they were often profoundly modified by them. The old Buddhism of the first period absorbed in the second a good many of the tenets of the Maháyána and the conta ...
ppt.
... attain the state of a Buddha. It must be stated that this is incorrect. This idea was spread by some early Orientalists at a time when Buddhist studies were beginning in the West, and the others who followed them accepted it without taking the trouble to go into the problem by examining the texts ...
... attain the state of a Buddha. It must be stated that this is incorrect. This idea was spread by some early Orientalists at a time when Buddhist studies were beginning in the West, and the others who followed them accepted it without taking the trouble to go into the problem by examining the texts ...
Kuroda Toshio - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
... private lives, as well as in their reactions to the authorities of the old and the new orders? The crucial element here is found, I believe, in the people’s opposition, both in outlook and in thought, to the ancient thaumaturgic bonds represented by the political authorities of the ancient Asian-sty ...
... private lives, as well as in their reactions to the authorities of the old and the new orders? The crucial element here is found, I believe, in the people’s opposition, both in outlook and in thought, to the ancient thaumaturgic bonds represented by the political authorities of the ancient Asian-sty ...
Introduction to Buddhism - Tushita Meditation Centre
... one’s vices, laziness, envy, cruelty, spite, etc. The scriptures mention six factors leading to the growth of disturbing emotions: 1. Seed: the fundamental cause of the deluded mind is the imprints left on your consciousness by previous non-virtuous actions. When the conditions are right, these seed ...
... one’s vices, laziness, envy, cruelty, spite, etc. The scriptures mention six factors leading to the growth of disturbing emotions: 1. Seed: the fundamental cause of the deluded mind is the imprints left on your consciousness by previous non-virtuous actions. When the conditions are right, these seed ...
Bern Sat session 1 - The Foundation of Buddhist Thought
... common to Buddhism, Jainism and Brahmanism. For example, the cultivation of concentration. There are many different levels of concentration, the last level called the eighth stage, and Brahmanism has full teachings on how cultivate this last stage, and this has the ability to eliminate many, many le ...
... common to Buddhism, Jainism and Brahmanism. For example, the cultivation of concentration. There are many different levels of concentration, the last level called the eighth stage, and Brahmanism has full teachings on how cultivate this last stage, and this has the ability to eliminate many, many le ...
Land Route or Sea Route? - Sino
... Sculptures at Kongwangshan" fL~l1d~1~r:p$*ft:]i*tI¥J~iT.17The authors of these articles firmly believe that the Kongwangshan cliff sculptures are the Eastern Han Buddhist images. Some researchers have connected Buddhist sites in this area with the sea silk route because Kongwangshan is located in th ...
... Sculptures at Kongwangshan" fL~l1d~1~r:p$*ft:]i*tI¥J~iT.17The authors of these articles firmly believe that the Kongwangshan cliff sculptures are the Eastern Han Buddhist images. Some researchers have connected Buddhist sites in this area with the sea silk route because Kongwangshan is located in th ...
Essentials of Buddhism
... One. Truly, O king; I think your son will become a Buddha. But now I am old. I shall not live to see the glory of your son’s achievements nor shall I hear his words of wisdom.” The king was very much moved by the words of Asita. To him there was glory in the thought of his son as ruler of all India ...
... One. Truly, O king; I think your son will become a Buddha. But now I am old. I shall not live to see the glory of your son’s achievements nor shall I hear his words of wisdom.” The king was very much moved by the words of Asita. To him there was glory in the thought of his son as ruler of all India ...
digitising_skt_buddhist_texts
... sentient beings and he behaved as such and followed the ways of the world. This was his lokanuvartanacarya. At one instance Lord Buddha explained to Ananda that unlike ordinary human beings he did not stay in the filth of the mother's womd but in a jewel casket (ratnavyuha). In one of the chapters P ...
... sentient beings and he behaved as such and followed the ways of the world. This was his lokanuvartanacarya. At one instance Lord Buddha explained to Ananda that unlike ordinary human beings he did not stay in the filth of the mother's womd but in a jewel casket (ratnavyuha). In one of the chapters P ...
Durkheim, Religion, and Buddhism - TRAN-B-300
... Agni and Varuna;but 'he believes that he owes them nothing and that he has nothing to do with them".... Then he is an atheist, in the sense that he does not concern himself with the question whether gods exist or not (Durkheim1965:46;emphasis added). ...
... Agni and Varuna;but 'he believes that he owes them nothing and that he has nothing to do with them".... Then he is an atheist, in the sense that he does not concern himself with the question whether gods exist or not (Durkheim1965:46;emphasis added). ...
Gandhi, Ahimsa, and the Self
... is more active and more real fighting against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness."6 The culmination of Gandhi's philosophy was the principle of "soul force" (satyagraha), and his main contention was that soul force will always, in the end, win over brute force. ...
... is more active and more real fighting against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness."6 The culmination of Gandhi's philosophy was the principle of "soul force" (satyagraha), and his main contention was that soul force will always, in the end, win over brute force. ...
Emptiness and Eight Fold Path - OpenSIUC
... time of death the person seems to become non-existent in this world. It can seem to convey the idea that without a soul, one is nothing and lost. As Williams describes the nature of the Self(soul) it in his book, Mahayana Buddhism: the Doctrinal Foundations as, "'truly existing', truly established', ...
... time of death the person seems to become non-existent in this world. It can seem to convey the idea that without a soul, one is nothing and lost. As Williams describes the nature of the Self(soul) it in his book, Mahayana Buddhism: the Doctrinal Foundations as, "'truly existing', truly established', ...
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... teachings from other Sutras and schools. Only the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren felt, contained the unadulterated True Dharma. All other Buddhist sects were wrong—and not only wrong, but actually evil in that they obscured and distorted the truth, advocating the worship of false Buddhas” (Robinson and Johns ...
... teachings from other Sutras and schools. Only the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren felt, contained the unadulterated True Dharma. All other Buddhist sects were wrong—and not only wrong, but actually evil in that they obscured and distorted the truth, advocating the worship of false Buddhas” (Robinson and Johns ...
„What is Mahāyāna? And what are Mahāyāna scriptures?“ (Part II)
... strength into the unfolding of bodhicitta and aiming at “becoming a Buddha”, while others may think that it might best be marked by a resolution of the bodhisattva to immolate himself in favour of any creature in need. Also part of the older picture was the idea that whatever is not Mahāyāna could b ...
... strength into the unfolding of bodhicitta and aiming at “becoming a Buddha”, while others may think that it might best be marked by a resolution of the bodhisattva to immolate himself in favour of any creature in need. Also part of the older picture was the idea that whatever is not Mahāyāna could b ...
Buddhism Across AsiA
... The impact of the spread of Buddhism on Asian history is evident from the significant changes it brought about in societies throughout most of the Asian continent. The period between the first and the seventh centuries of the Common Era was crucial in this respect, not only because various forms of ...
... The impact of the spread of Buddhism on Asian history is evident from the significant changes it brought about in societies throughout most of the Asian continent. The period between the first and the seventh centuries of the Common Era was crucial in this respect, not only because various forms of ...
The Berkshire Scholar
... family, because young people are the ones who form the basis of society. The next generation should have opportunities to try every new thing they can in order to grow and understand their unlimited potential while expanding their horizons. For this reason, Chinese parents never give their children ...
... family, because young people are the ones who form the basis of society. The next generation should have opportunities to try every new thing they can in order to grow and understand their unlimited potential while expanding their horizons. For this reason, Chinese parents never give their children ...
The Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths and Their Opposites
... of a requirement to show some adversity for the terms listed under the T r u t h of Suffering, and in particular the term I render 'voidness.' Presumably the adversity is the sense of Voidness' that it is here the absence of the thing one hunts and looks for, expects to find, leaving one in a kind o ...
... of a requirement to show some adversity for the terms listed under the T r u t h of Suffering, and in particular the term I render 'voidness.' Presumably the adversity is the sense of Voidness' that it is here the absence of the thing one hunts and looks for, expects to find, leaving one in a kind o ...
Buddhism`s Disappearance from India
... Due to the striking similarities in the teachings of Buddhism and modern Hinduism, there is another group of scholars who uphold the theory that Buddhism is a restatement of Hinduism.1,2,4 But this notion is absolutely false as Hinduism is a much later development after the disappearance of Buddhism ...
... Due to the striking similarities in the teachings of Buddhism and modern Hinduism, there is another group of scholars who uphold the theory that Buddhism is a restatement of Hinduism.1,2,4 But this notion is absolutely false as Hinduism is a much later development after the disappearance of Buddhism ...
Three Dimensions of Buddhist Studies
... theistic religions. Further, proponents of Atiyoga and other Vajray›na doctrines affirm the existence of the Primordial Buddha, Samantabhadra, as the ground and origin of the whole of sa˙s›ra and nirv›˚a; and they view all phenomena as creative expressions of Samantabhadra, whose nature is none othe ...
... theistic religions. Further, proponents of Atiyoga and other Vajray›na doctrines affirm the existence of the Primordial Buddha, Samantabhadra, as the ground and origin of the whole of sa˙s›ra and nirv›˚a; and they view all phenomena as creative expressions of Samantabhadra, whose nature is none othe ...
File - INTERNATIONAL CH`AN BUDDHISM INSTITUTE
... ‘The Buddhist vocabulary is extensive and all terms which were coined either by the Buddha or His enlightened disciples, correspond very well with various stages of spiritual awakening. It is a matter for regret that only a very limited number of these terms has been translated into Western language ...
... ‘The Buddhist vocabulary is extensive and all terms which were coined either by the Buddha or His enlightened disciples, correspond very well with various stages of spiritual awakening. It is a matter for regret that only a very limited number of these terms has been translated into Western language ...
Three Philosophies and One Reality
... This small booklet is an edited collection of seven talks given on Buddhism by the Reverend Gudo Wafu Nishijima to the weekly seminar he has held in Tokyo for the last fifteen years. Reverend Nishijima bases his explanations of Buddhist theory on the Shobogenzo, the central work of the Buddhist prie ...
... This small booklet is an edited collection of seven talks given on Buddhism by the Reverend Gudo Wafu Nishijima to the weekly seminar he has held in Tokyo for the last fifteen years. Reverend Nishijima bases his explanations of Buddhist theory on the Shobogenzo, the central work of the Buddhist prie ...
Three Philosophies and One Reality
... century by the founder of the sect of Buddhism in Japan which is based on the practice of Zazen. His name is Master Dogen. I found the Shobogenzo almost impossible to read at that time, and I was amazed that there could be a book written in Japanese which I was unable to understand at all. But altho ...
... century by the founder of the sect of Buddhism in Japan which is based on the practice of Zazen. His name is Master Dogen. I found the Shobogenzo almost impossible to read at that time, and I was amazed that there could be a book written in Japanese which I was unable to understand at all. But altho ...