Handbook For Mankind
... lay people at all. But nowadays it has become an affair involving ceremony, fun and games, loud laughter and money seeking. It is just a picnic and is devoid of all the desirable results originally intended. This sort of thing is a tumour which has developed in Buddhism and thrived. The tumour takes ...
... lay people at all. But nowadays it has become an affair involving ceremony, fun and games, loud laughter and money seeking. It is just a picnic and is devoid of all the desirable results originally intended. This sort of thing is a tumour which has developed in Buddhism and thrived. The tumour takes ...
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 ...
PT Sangha - Audio/Visual Catalog
... fear, or dissatisfaction, to name a few. He emphasized that suffering is workable, that Audio (CD) we can engage with our suffering in such a way as to be freed from it. He described five faculties that we need to develop to do so: confidence (faith), effort, mindfulness, concentration, and discernm ...
... fear, or dissatisfaction, to name a few. He emphasized that suffering is workable, that Audio (CD) we can engage with our suffering in such a way as to be freed from it. He described five faculties that we need to develop to do so: confidence (faith), effort, mindfulness, concentration, and discernm ...
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online
... One does not attach to “there is,” nor to “there is not.” Not only does he not attach to attachment, but neither to non-attachment.1 (Cheng Xuanying) Different interactions between Buddhism and Daoism have occurred since Buddhism entered China in the 1st century. Buddhism, as an Indian religion, fir ...
... One does not attach to “there is,” nor to “there is not.” Not only does he not attach to attachment, but neither to non-attachment.1 (Cheng Xuanying) Different interactions between Buddhism and Daoism have occurred since Buddhism entered China in the 1st century. Buddhism, as an Indian religion, fir ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian tradition
... experiences that are not in some sense reliant on the mind. This mental transformation is almost invariably held to depend upon, and to be brought about finally by, oneself for there can also be no transformation of one’s own mind without on some level one’s own active involvement or participation. ...
... experiences that are not in some sense reliant on the mind. This mental transformation is almost invariably held to depend upon, and to be brought about finally by, oneself for there can also be no transformation of one’s own mind without on some level one’s own active involvement or participation. ...
Dharma Essays
... distinguish the views as logical in contrast to mystical. I reflected in myself that while many people may not easily experience nonduality, they can understand the logical basis of Emptiness and through reflection become aware of its contemporary meaning and importance for our lives. The Empti ...
... distinguish the views as logical in contrast to mystical. I reflected in myself that while many people may not easily experience nonduality, they can understand the logical basis of Emptiness and through reflection become aware of its contemporary meaning and importance for our lives. The Empti ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian
... experiences that are not in some sense reliant on the mind. This mental transformation is almost invariably held to depend upon, and to be brought about finally by, oneself for there can also be no transformation of one’s own mind without on some level one’s own active involvement or participation. ...
... experiences that are not in some sense reliant on the mind. This mental transformation is almost invariably held to depend upon, and to be brought about finally by, oneself for there can also be no transformation of one’s own mind without on some level one’s own active involvement or participation. ...
Meaning without Ego - Journal of Philosophy of Life
... in much of its manifestation…dukkha just is. However, for the Buddha and his followers dukkha was something that needed to be overcome. Metz’s fundamentality theory pushes back the animalistic ego and asserts meaning’s achievement within an ethical framework positively oriented towards the fundament ...
... in much of its manifestation…dukkha just is. However, for the Buddha and his followers dukkha was something that needed to be overcome. Metz’s fundamentality theory pushes back the animalistic ego and asserts meaning’s achievement within an ethical framework positively oriented towards the fundament ...
Buddha and god - Mischievous Peeps
... preoccupied me throughout my 25-year-long study of the Buddha’s teachings and to which the usual answer of ‘yes!’ from most Buddhists has always struck me as highly questionable. In this little book, I attempt to show that there is most definitely room for the concept of God within the vast structur ...
... preoccupied me throughout my 25-year-long study of the Buddha’s teachings and to which the usual answer of ‘yes!’ from most Buddhists has always struck me as highly questionable. In this little book, I attempt to show that there is most definitely room for the concept of God within the vast structur ...
Becoming Whole
... In this paper I will examine experiential therapy and mindfulness meditation and will look at what these perspectives say about human nature, the self, and emotion. I propose that these systems be seen as complementary to personal and spiritual development, with each honoring the psychological and s ...
... In this paper I will examine experiential therapy and mindfulness meditation and will look at what these perspectives say about human nature, the self, and emotion. I propose that these systems be seen as complementary to personal and spiritual development, with each honoring the psychological and s ...
puñña sukka By Martin T. Adam Religious Studies Program
... It can mean "that which determines" as well as "that which one uses to determine." Here it is understood in the former sense. Clearly the two senses are not equivalent. The criteria by which we judge an action to be good or bad do not necessarily constitute the causes of the action's being good or ...
... It can mean "that which determines" as well as "that which one uses to determine." Here it is understood in the former sense. Clearly the two senses are not equivalent. The criteria by which we judge an action to be good or bad do not necessarily constitute the causes of the action's being good or ...
Reasoner Reincarnation and Karma
... Reincarnation asserts that human persons after death (the end of one embodiment or incarnation) are then embodied or re-incarnated in another body. This way of putting the matter implies that there is some entity that is re-incarnated, something that carries over from life to life (whether or not th ...
... Reincarnation asserts that human persons after death (the end of one embodiment or incarnation) are then embodied or re-incarnated in another body. This way of putting the matter implies that there is some entity that is re-incarnated, something that carries over from life to life (whether or not th ...
Text - McGill University
... Through textuaI analysis and translations, this thesis offers a exegetical account of the moral thought in the SikoJiisamuccaya, beginning with a description of Santideva's understanding of how to become a bodhisattva, the Mahayana spiritual ideal. 1 provide an analysis of Santideva's understanding ...
... Through textuaI analysis and translations, this thesis offers a exegetical account of the moral thought in the SikoJiisamuccaya, beginning with a description of Santideva's understanding of how to become a bodhisattva, the Mahayana spiritual ideal. 1 provide an analysis of Santideva's understanding ...
BUDDHIST WELL-BEING Christopher W. Gowans Fordham
... high up on the karmic scale, has some form of suffering (dukkha, perhaps better translated as unsatisfactoriness). The analysis of suffering—what it is, what its causes are, what it would mean to overcome it, and how it may be overcome (that is, the Four Noble Truths)—is central to what is distincti ...
... high up on the karmic scale, has some form of suffering (dukkha, perhaps better translated as unsatisfactoriness). The analysis of suffering—what it is, what its causes are, what it would mean to overcome it, and how it may be overcome (that is, the Four Noble Truths)—is central to what is distincti ...
contribution of this dissertation
... Zen is a religion, the teachings and practices of which are directed toward self-realization (kensho, satori) and lead finally to complete awakening (enlightenment) as experienced by Shakyamuni Buddha. … More than any other school, Zen stresses the prime importance of the enlightenment experience an ...
... Zen is a religion, the teachings and practices of which are directed toward self-realization (kensho, satori) and lead finally to complete awakening (enlightenment) as experienced by Shakyamuni Buddha. … More than any other school, Zen stresses the prime importance of the enlightenment experience an ...
Living in a Bubble: Dissociation, Relational Consciousness, and
... studies have noted that major and minor trauma in childhood may mediate dissociation; not only OCD (Fontenelle et al., 2007) but also in other OCD spectrum disorders (Lochner et al., 2004). However, all these studies used the dissociative experiences scale. Only one study has looked more specificall ...
... studies have noted that major and minor trauma in childhood may mediate dissociation; not only OCD (Fontenelle et al., 2007) but also in other OCD spectrum disorders (Lochner et al., 2004). However, all these studies used the dissociative experiences scale. Only one study has looked more specificall ...
Buddhism From Within.qxd
... this way readers will not be tempted to conclude that by the end of the book they know all about Buddhism. On the other hand, if the book has done its job, it should leave you with a reasonably good sense, or intuitive feel, for Buddhism as a living religion. Since it is a religion which is based up ...
... this way readers will not be tempted to conclude that by the end of the book they know all about Buddhism. On the other hand, if the book has done its job, it should leave you with a reasonably good sense, or intuitive feel, for Buddhism as a living religion. Since it is a religion which is based up ...
goto-jones_zombie mindfulness manifesto
... this diagnosis is that modern citizens have their authentic freedom compromised by being too attached to thinking itself: they spend too much of their time “lost in thought,” ruminating about the past and the future, worrying, dreaming, riddled with anxieties about thi ...
... this diagnosis is that modern citizens have their authentic freedom compromised by being too attached to thinking itself: they spend too much of their time “lost in thought,” ruminating about the past and the future, worrying, dreaming, riddled with anxieties about thi ...
Be a Lamp Upon Yourself
... the religion of others, but one should honor others' religion for this or that reason. In so doing, one helps one's own religion to grow and renders service to the religions of others too. In acting otherwise, one digs the grave of one's own religion and also does harm to other religions." Holy wars ...
... the religion of others, but one should honor others' religion for this or that reason. In so doing, one helps one's own religion to grow and renders service to the religions of others too. In acting otherwise, one digs the grave of one's own religion and also does harm to other religions." Holy wars ...
eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... freely and actively invited both His followers and those of other beliefs to challenge His teachings from every possible angle till there was no room ...
... freely and actively invited both His followers and those of other beliefs to challenge His teachings from every possible angle till there was no room ...
An Exploration of Self-Construction Through Buddhist Imagery in
... the deer go without water’” (Kingston, Woman Warrior 23). “White Tigers” is a chapter that is known for the Kingston's retelling of the Fa Mu Lan chant. Unlike other chapters where the narrator's words are in clear juxtaposition to the words of her mother, Brave Orchid, in “White Tigers” the mythic ...
... the deer go without water’” (Kingston, Woman Warrior 23). “White Tigers” is a chapter that is known for the Kingston's retelling of the Fa Mu Lan chant. Unlike other chapters where the narrator's words are in clear juxtaposition to the words of her mother, Brave Orchid, in “White Tigers” the mythic ...
Daniel Miracapillo
... nothingness, not attending to the perception of the base of neither-perception-nornon-perception- attends to the signless dependent on the signless concentration of mind [animitto cetosamādhi]. His mind enters into that signless concentration of mind and acquires confidence, steadiness and resolutio ...
... nothingness, not attending to the perception of the base of neither-perception-nornon-perception- attends to the signless dependent on the signless concentration of mind [animitto cetosamādhi]. His mind enters into that signless concentration of mind and acquires confidence, steadiness and resolutio ...
dhamma texts - International Meditation Centres
... An extract from the first talk mentioned is given as an addendum to What Buddhism Is. In all these talks, Sayagyi encourages people to make as much effort as possible, without insisting that they go against their own beliefs. The first steps in Buddhist Meditation, as he points out, are compatible w ...
... An extract from the first talk mentioned is given as an addendum to What Buddhism Is. In all these talks, Sayagyi encourages people to make as much effort as possible, without insisting that they go against their own beliefs. The first steps in Buddhist Meditation, as he points out, are compatible w ...
Nietzsche and Buddha - Western Political Science Association
... teachings attributed to the Buddha and recognized by all Buddhists), and many scholars identify Saṃyutta Nikāya 22:56 (the Parivatta Sutta) as being an especially clear exposition. 10 There the Buddha teaches that all of the objects of experience (also called conditioned objects) are made up of fiv ...
... teachings attributed to the Buddha and recognized by all Buddhists), and many scholars identify Saṃyutta Nikāya 22:56 (the Parivatta Sutta) as being an especially clear exposition. 10 There the Buddha teaches that all of the objects of experience (also called conditioned objects) are made up of fiv ...
Buddhism Reconsidered - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... centuries. At first glance we may think what the Buddha did was cruel. But we should not look at his actions that way. He was living out a teaching, a philosophy about life. The Buddha recognized that life is suffering. Before one can be enlightened they must first recognize their own darkness. The ...
... centuries. At first glance we may think what the Buddha did was cruel. But we should not look at his actions that way. He was living out a teaching, a philosophy about life. The Buddha recognized that life is suffering. Before one can be enlightened they must first recognize their own darkness. The ...