What goes Around comes Around: a Study of Karma
... What goes Around comes Around: a Study of Karma strands and goals, one of which seeks to blend Eastern and Western philosophies for enhanced comprehension of the human potentials for growth and transformation. An understanding of the concept of karma therefore adds value and meaning to the field of ...
... What goes Around comes Around: a Study of Karma strands and goals, one of which seeks to blend Eastern and Western philosophies for enhanced comprehension of the human potentials for growth and transformation. An understanding of the concept of karma therefore adds value and meaning to the field of ...
What the Buddha Taught
... in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teacher. I have kept as close as I could to the originals, and have ...
... in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teacher. I have kept as close as I could to the originals, and have ...
ĐẠI THỪA VÀ TIỂU THỪA - BHD GĐPTVN tại Hoa Kỳ
... 3. Conception of Orthodox and Primitive: Previously, there were people assimilated "Orthodox" with the word "Hinayana", but through the above analysis, we have seen clearly, the word Hinayana formed because of a few monks with lower ability to understand and to attain enlightenment. Originally, ther ...
... 3. Conception of Orthodox and Primitive: Previously, there were people assimilated "Orthodox" with the word "Hinayana", but through the above analysis, we have seen clearly, the word Hinayana formed because of a few monks with lower ability to understand and to attain enlightenment. Originally, ther ...
The Sixfold Purity of an Arahant Chabbisodhana-sutta and its Parallel
... 7. Hearing this you should approve of it as good and correct, rejoice in it and act in accordance with it. Having approved of it as good and correct, having rejoiced in it, and acted in accordance with it, you should further ask that monk like this: Venerable friend, the Blessed One has taught six e ...
... 7. Hearing this you should approve of it as good and correct, rejoice in it and act in accordance with it. Having approved of it as good and correct, having rejoiced in it, and acted in accordance with it, you should further ask that monk like this: Venerable friend, the Blessed One has taught six e ...
Buddhism and the race question - UNESDOC
... the symbolic mylhology of the different schools. To take just one point-and an important point-in illustration, the central doctrine of the Four Truths,for instance,is common to both traditions. In both these traditions it is taught that the starting point of religion is man’s realization of his sen ...
... the symbolic mylhology of the different schools. To take just one point-and an important point-in illustration, the central doctrine of the Four Truths,for instance,is common to both traditions. In both these traditions it is taught that the starting point of religion is man’s realization of his sen ...
REINCARNATION IN BUDDHISM: AN ANALYSIS FROM ISLAMIC
... universe, he accepted the notions of karma and rebirth, that thought and actions will effects in future lives. Buddhism believes that mankind have to experience a number of incarnations in human form, until such a time as the soul has obtained an appropriate level of enlightenment, through the proce ...
... universe, he accepted the notions of karma and rebirth, that thought and actions will effects in future lives. Buddhism believes that mankind have to experience a number of incarnations in human form, until such a time as the soul has obtained an appropriate level of enlightenment, through the proce ...
Brahmā`s Invitation: the Ariyapariyesanā
... eternal creator god, while in other discourses a Brahmā by the name of Sahampati acts as a guardian of Buddhism. An instance of the tendency to satirize Brahmā, or more precisely to satirize Brahmās, as in Buddhist texts we meet with several manifestations of this god, can be found in the Brahmajāl ...
... eternal creator god, while in other discourses a Brahmā by the name of Sahampati acts as a guardian of Buddhism. An instance of the tendency to satirize Brahmā, or more precisely to satirize Brahmās, as in Buddhist texts we meet with several manifestations of this god, can be found in the Brahmajāl ...
The Historical Authenticity of Early Buddhist Literature A Critical
... practice seem to disagree, there must simply have been no knowledge of the textual tradition. It seems to me that the more interesting possibility (and the one we are more entitled to entertain) is that both practices and texts coexisted, but that despite our sense of frequent contradiction between ...
... practice seem to disagree, there must simply have been no knowledge of the textual tradition. It seems to me that the more interesting possibility (and the one we are more entitled to entertain) is that both practices and texts coexisted, but that despite our sense of frequent contradiction between ...
Mysticism – an Impulse for Ritualizing Death
... nected to mysticism can be reconciled in a culture directed at a person’s individual personality as an ultimate value. Against this background, contemporary death rituals often stress the continuity between earthly life and life after death. Many dying persons do not prepare for their self-loss anym ...
... nected to mysticism can be reconciled in a culture directed at a person’s individual personality as an ultimate value. Against this background, contemporary death rituals often stress the continuity between earthly life and life after death. Many dying persons do not prepare for their self-loss anym ...
Lecture 14 “One Mind Opens Two Doors” in the Awakening of Faith
... the śāstras are the creations of bodhisattvas, intended to elucidate the doctrines taught by Buddha, and so they lean towards the theoretical. And because they are more theoretical, once the student falls into them, it will be as if he were caught in the “nets that spread over heaven and earth,” una ...
... the śāstras are the creations of bodhisattvas, intended to elucidate the doctrines taught by Buddha, and so they lean towards the theoretical. And because they are more theoretical, once the student falls into them, it will be as if he were caught in the “nets that spread over heaven and earth,” una ...
x. five precepts (pancasila)
... 3. Precepts are Indispensable in Moral Training There are some who argue that since moral training is one's own responsibility, it is enough simply to have good intentions and let oneself be guided by one's sense of what is right or wrong. Having a set of rules of conduct is at best superfluous and ...
... 3. Precepts are Indispensable in Moral Training There are some who argue that since moral training is one's own responsibility, it is enough simply to have good intentions and let oneself be guided by one's sense of what is right or wrong. Having a set of rules of conduct is at best superfluous and ...
Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism
... will be reproduced below. “Buddhism did not start,” he goes on, “as a new and independent religion. It was an offshoot of the more ancient faith of the Hindus, perhaps a schism or a heresy. While the Buddha agreed with the faith he inherited on the fundamentals of metaphysics and ethics, he proteste ...
... will be reproduced below. “Buddhism did not start,” he goes on, “as a new and independent religion. It was an offshoot of the more ancient faith of the Hindus, perhaps a schism or a heresy. While the Buddha agreed with the faith he inherited on the fundamentals of metaphysics and ethics, he proteste ...
puñña sukka By Martin T. Adam Religious Studies Program
... comparisons with western traditions. Apparent inconsistencies among the texts can be resolved if one takes careful note of the spiritual status of the moral agents under discussion. The argument is based upon an analysis of a particular conceptual schema found in the Pāli Canon, namely, the tetrad o ...
... comparisons with western traditions. Apparent inconsistencies among the texts can be resolved if one takes careful note of the spiritual status of the moral agents under discussion. The argument is based upon an analysis of a particular conceptual schema found in the Pāli Canon, namely, the tetrad o ...
Introduction to the Early Buddhist
... of the Buddha himself and it replaces the ideal of the Arhat by that of the Bodhisattva. Not only the monk but every ordinary human being can place before himself the goal to be re-born as a Bodhisattva, which means an enlightened being or one who may receive supreme illumination and bring salvation ...
... of the Buddha himself and it replaces the ideal of the Arhat by that of the Bodhisattva. Not only the monk but every ordinary human being can place before himself the goal to be re-born as a Bodhisattva, which means an enlightened being or one who may receive supreme illumination and bring salvation ...
Com-Rosary of Views-HHDLr - International Kalachakra Network
... From among the classical commentaries on this root text that is the basis for these teachings, The Garland of Views, the earliest is by Rongzom Pandita who was close to being a contemporary of the great Indian master Atisha so it has nearly been a thousand years since the time of Rongzom. He was a ...
... From among the classical commentaries on this root text that is the basis for these teachings, The Garland of Views, the earliest is by Rongzom Pandita who was close to being a contemporary of the great Indian master Atisha so it has nearly been a thousand years since the time of Rongzom. He was a ...
Meaning of Conversion
... commit oneself wholeheartedly to the Buddha’s teaching, allowing it to change one’s whole way of life. Being a Buddhist is a full-time occupation, not a hobby or an intellectual pastime; it is something to be taken seriously. And when you take something seriously, all sorts of practical questions a ...
... commit oneself wholeheartedly to the Buddha’s teaching, allowing it to change one’s whole way of life. Being a Buddhist is a full-time occupation, not a hobby or an intellectual pastime; it is something to be taken seriously. And when you take something seriously, all sorts of practical questions a ...
The Sweet Dews of Ch`an
... of these as fleeting dreams. Do not be horrified by them, and do not love them as misguided people do, which fact will lead them into deep trouble; i.e., from misconception to bewilderment, to hallucination, to derangement, and even to insanity. So watch out! These are the “Right Views” and essenti ...
... of these as fleeting dreams. Do not be horrified by them, and do not love them as misguided people do, which fact will lead them into deep trouble; i.e., from misconception to bewilderment, to hallucination, to derangement, and even to insanity. So watch out! These are the “Right Views” and essenti ...
Introduction Self or non-self? Three turnings of the wheel of dharma
... either conditioned or unconditioned phenomena. If we believe that such a self may be found with a basis in conditioned phenomena we are suffering from a cognitive distortion (vipary sa). The Buddhists distinguish four such distortions. To endorse them is a paradigm case of ignorance or delusion. Wis ...
... either conditioned or unconditioned phenomena. If we believe that such a self may be found with a basis in conditioned phenomena we are suffering from a cognitive distortion (vipary sa). The Buddhists distinguish four such distortions. To endorse them is a paradigm case of ignorance or delusion. Wis ...
Buddha as Therapist: Meditations
... 3.0). The first book of this quadrilogy (Horizons in Buddhist Psychology) came about after a conference and is based on the content of eight symposia held in Göteborg, Sweden, in 2005 at a joint conference of the International Conference of Cognitive Therapy and the Society of Constructivism in the ...
... 3.0). The first book of this quadrilogy (Horizons in Buddhist Psychology) came about after a conference and is based on the content of eight symposia held in Göteborg, Sweden, in 2005 at a joint conference of the International Conference of Cognitive Therapy and the Society of Constructivism in the ...
The Buddha`s Victory
... developed human being. Secondly, there is the ideal of the path to Enlightenment, the sum total of all the principles, practices, and teachings that help the individual human being in the course of his or her quest for spiritual perfection. Thirdly, there is the ideal of fellowship in pursuing the w ...
... developed human being. Secondly, there is the ideal of the path to Enlightenment, the sum total of all the principles, practices, and teachings that help the individual human being in the course of his or her quest for spiritual perfection. Thirdly, there is the ideal of fellowship in pursuing the w ...
Quintessential Buddhism - QUINTESSENTIAL TIBETAN BUDDHA
... Rimé in Tibetan means "no sides", "non-partisan" or "non-sectarian". In religious contexts, it refer to the "Eclectic Movement” between the Buddhist Nyingma, Sakya, and Kagyu traditions, along with the “nonBuddhist” Bön religion (shamanic in nature) wherein practitioners CAN "follow multiple lineage ...
... Rimé in Tibetan means "no sides", "non-partisan" or "non-sectarian". In religious contexts, it refer to the "Eclectic Movement” between the Buddhist Nyingma, Sakya, and Kagyu traditions, along with the “nonBuddhist” Bön religion (shamanic in nature) wherein practitioners CAN "follow multiple lineage ...
Four Noble Truths
... The Four Noble Truths and the Lotus Sutra The text of the Lotus Sūtra views the Four Noble Truths as the first teaching of the Buddha, but not the final teaching. In the third chapter, Similes and Parables, the sūtra introduces what it calls "the most wonderful and unsurpassed great Dharma":[11] [12 ...
... The Four Noble Truths and the Lotus Sutra The text of the Lotus Sūtra views the Four Noble Truths as the first teaching of the Buddha, but not the final teaching. In the third chapter, Similes and Parables, the sūtra introduces what it calls "the most wonderful and unsurpassed great Dharma":[11] [12 ...
The Main Topics of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Poetry
... indifference to the pursuits of longevity. Thus Issa said in what is considered his death poem: What matter if I live on – a tortoise lives a hundred times as long. Impermanence thus is viewed in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism from many different angles and with various subtle meanings. It’s the sad fa ...
... indifference to the pursuits of longevity. Thus Issa said in what is considered his death poem: What matter if I live on – a tortoise lives a hundred times as long. Impermanence thus is viewed in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism from many different angles and with various subtle meanings. It’s the sad fa ...