A COMPARISON OF ARISTOTELIAN AND BUDDHIST ETHICS AND
... quite distinct moral system, and the comparison of their different metaphysical foundations, is more likely to provide an effective analysis for any useful discussion and the proposal of a moral way. Drawing on the tradition from the world religions with which I am most familiar – the Abrahamic rel ...
... quite distinct moral system, and the comparison of their different metaphysical foundations, is more likely to provide an effective analysis for any useful discussion and the proposal of a moral way. Drawing on the tradition from the world religions with which I am most familiar – the Abrahamic rel ...
The Four Realities True for Noble Ones: Ariyasacca Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... are termed) ariyasaccas. Accordingly it is stated [(SN V 435)]: “In this world, with its devas, Māra, and Brahmā, in this generation with its ascetics and brahmins, the In CSCD, the last two sentences Ariyā imāni paṭivijjhanti, tasmā ariyasaccānī ti vuccanti (“The noble ones penetrate them; therefor ...
... are termed) ariyasaccas. Accordingly it is stated [(SN V 435)]: “In this world, with its devas, Māra, and Brahmā, in this generation with its ascetics and brahmins, the In CSCD, the last two sentences Ariyā imāni paṭivijjhanti, tasmā ariyasaccānī ti vuccanti (“The noble ones penetrate them; therefor ...
Common Ground, Common Cause: Buddhism and Science on the
... It is no small task to understand this vast, variegated world we humans have carved out for ourselves on this small planet. How does one know where to begin, what to interrogate, and to what end? Events, however, have a way of imposing themselves. As the Cold War melts down and bitter ethnic and rel ...
... It is no small task to understand this vast, variegated world we humans have carved out for ourselves on this small planet. How does one know where to begin, what to interrogate, and to what end? Events, however, have a way of imposing themselves. As the Cold War melts down and bitter ethnic and rel ...
Empty Selves: A Comparative Analysis of Mahayana Buddhism
... ambitious. Instead of foolishly tackling the entire Western philosophical tradition, I narrowed my focus to just two Western traditions, Sartre’s Existentialism and Freud and Jung’s Depth Psychology. I then chose the Mahayana Buddhism school to focus on within the entire Buddhist project. A substant ...
... ambitious. Instead of foolishly tackling the entire Western philosophical tradition, I narrowed my focus to just two Western traditions, Sartre’s Existentialism and Freud and Jung’s Depth Psychology. I then chose the Mahayana Buddhism school to focus on within the entire Buddhist project. A substant ...
Fundamentals of Buddhism
... another because the emphasis in Buddhism is on internal practice rather than on external practice. Its emphasis is on the way you develop your mind rather than the way you dress, the kind of food you take, the way you wear your hair and so forth. The second point that I would like to make regards t ...
... another because the emphasis in Buddhism is on internal practice rather than on external practice. Its emphasis is on the way you develop your mind rather than the way you dress, the kind of food you take, the way you wear your hair and so forth. The second point that I would like to make regards t ...
Buddhist Empowerment & Life Transformation
... Buddhist Principles of Counseling based on Samsara (4) 16. Counselor should guide the client to go through the processes of self awareness, understanding, and acceptance (both self-acceptance and acceptance of others) to enable the change. 17. Bitterness in the life should be interpreted as a fair ...
... Buddhist Principles of Counseling based on Samsara (4) 16. Counselor should guide the client to go through the processes of self awareness, understanding, and acceptance (both self-acceptance and acceptance of others) to enable the change. 17. Bitterness in the life should be interpreted as a fair ...
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 ...
The Four Noble Truths
... The Twelve Deeds of the Buddha There are very many great deeds of the Buddha recorded but these can be summarized into the twelve most important, most famous deeds. The first of these twelve deeds was when the Buddha was teaching in the paradise of Tushita which is in the god realm.1 While the Buddh ...
... The Twelve Deeds of the Buddha There are very many great deeds of the Buddha recorded but these can be summarized into the twelve most important, most famous deeds. The first of these twelve deeds was when the Buddha was teaching in the paradise of Tushita which is in the god realm.1 While the Buddh ...
Karmic Calculations: The Social Implications of Karmic Causality in
... of the Mahâyâna sects, and large percentages of monks and nuns participated in them.8 Buddhists actively navigate the courses of their lives, and they have access to numerous tools that allow them to do so. In addition to the developments that inevitably occur in a religious tradition’s history, the ...
... of the Mahâyâna sects, and large percentages of monks and nuns participated in them.8 Buddhists actively navigate the courses of their lives, and they have access to numerous tools that allow them to do so. In addition to the developments that inevitably occur in a religious tradition’s history, the ...
Body, Mind and Consciousness: Comparative Reflections Zhihua
... adopt the latter view, also believe that the artificial simulation of human intelligence will eventually be possible once the relevant technology is mature enough. Some hold that Buddhism had developed a materialistic or physicalistic model of mind. This in some sense is correct. The foundational Bu ...
... adopt the latter view, also believe that the artificial simulation of human intelligence will eventually be possible once the relevant technology is mature enough. Some hold that Buddhism had developed a materialistic or physicalistic model of mind. This in some sense is correct. The foundational Bu ...
The Possibility of Buddhist Virtue: A Christian Response
... result, the Buddha became a renunciate; he gave up his royal lifestyle and began searching for a way to bring an end to suffering. In his search, the Buddha tried all the available philosophies and religions; whether they be hedonistic or ascetic. Whatever he tried, the Buddha excelled beyond his te ...
... result, the Buddha became a renunciate; he gave up his royal lifestyle and began searching for a way to bring an end to suffering. In his search, the Buddha tried all the available philosophies and religions; whether they be hedonistic or ascetic. Whatever he tried, the Buddha excelled beyond his te ...
The Uniqueness of Buddhism
... Dukkha arises from desire and craving Dukkha can be eliminated The Noble Eightfold Path is the way for our enduring peace and happiness ...
... Dukkha arises from desire and craving Dukkha can be eliminated The Noble Eightfold Path is the way for our enduring peace and happiness ...
Sarkar on the Buddha`s Four Noble Truths
... sources, it is possible to assert the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths as central to the Buddhist tradition as a whole. Seen in this light, it is of academic interest to explore what Sarkar says about this central Buddhist doctrine and his interpretation of the Buddha and his teachings. From the B ...
... sources, it is possible to assert the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths as central to the Buddhist tradition as a whole. Seen in this light, it is of academic interest to explore what Sarkar says about this central Buddhist doctrine and his interpretation of the Buddha and his teachings. From the B ...
whether under the name of Buddha or that of Samkarâchârya
... hammer in the matter of Esoteric Philosophy. Nevertheless it is the duty of the Occultist to try and explain it. Nirvâna and Moksha, then, as said before, have their being in non-being, if such a paradox be permitted to illustrate the meaning the better. Nirvâna, as some illustrious Orientalists hav ...
... hammer in the matter of Esoteric Philosophy. Nevertheless it is the duty of the Occultist to try and explain it. Nirvâna and Moksha, then, as said before, have their being in non-being, if such a paradox be permitted to illustrate the meaning the better. Nirvâna, as some illustrious Orientalists hav ...
Buddhist Social Theory?
... original teachings not only deny a creator God and the salvific value of rituals such as sacrifices, they also emphasize the constructed nature of both the self and the world. For Buddhism there are no self-existing things, since everything, including you and me, interpenetrates (interpermeates) eve ...
... original teachings not only deny a creator God and the salvific value of rituals such as sacrifices, they also emphasize the constructed nature of both the self and the world. For Buddhism there are no self-existing things, since everything, including you and me, interpenetrates (interpermeates) eve ...
Buddhist Concepts in the Practice of Psychotherapy: A Qualitative
... Non-Self. From a Buddhist perspective, the “self” is not a separate entity but rather an interdependent process that is in constant change and flux. The Buddha expounded upon the principle of annata (Pali), “non-self,” by explaining that what we embrace as an inherent and separate self is little mo ...
... Non-Self. From a Buddhist perspective, the “self” is not a separate entity but rather an interdependent process that is in constant change and flux. The Buddha expounded upon the principle of annata (Pali), “non-self,” by explaining that what we embrace as an inherent and separate self is little mo ...
Understanding in Theravada Abhidhamma
... According to Buddhism, at the time of his awakening he realized complete insight into the cause of suffering, and the steps necessary to eliminate it. These discoveries became known as the "Four Noble Truths",[46] which are at the heart of Buddhist teaching. Through mastery of these truths, a state ...
... According to Buddhism, at the time of his awakening he realized complete insight into the cause of suffering, and the steps necessary to eliminate it. These discoveries became known as the "Four Noble Truths",[46] which are at the heart of Buddhist teaching. Through mastery of these truths, a state ...
The Four Noble Truths
... have total control of our greed, lust, fear, and worries, we see things with a clear mind and the issues become simple to resolve. This is one form of happiness. Furthermore, when our heart and mind are not distracted by thoughts of clinging or attachment and not bothered by sorrows and fears, we ar ...
... have total control of our greed, lust, fear, and worries, we see things with a clear mind and the issues become simple to resolve. This is one form of happiness. Furthermore, when our heart and mind are not distracted by thoughts of clinging or attachment and not bothered by sorrows and fears, we ar ...
Violence and (Non-)resistance: Ahiṃsā Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... between ethics and religion, belief and faith, and knowledge and experience. I suggest that it is, despite a theoretical ambiguity, also “determinative” insofar as experience itself presents moral agents with unequivocal demands to act, or not act, on the bases of often nonconceptualized processes. ...
... between ethics and religion, belief and faith, and knowledge and experience. I suggest that it is, despite a theoretical ambiguity, also “determinative” insofar as experience itself presents moral agents with unequivocal demands to act, or not act, on the bases of often nonconceptualized processes. ...
Lesson 6 - Castlemilk High School
... There was plenty of notes yesterday on Nibbana, but for the purpose of the exam it is important that you know the results of reaching Nibbana is and also how it can be ...
... There was plenty of notes yesterday on Nibbana, but for the purpose of the exam it is important that you know the results of reaching Nibbana is and also how it can be ...
vi death ad rebirth
... 1. Difference between Rebirth and Reincarnation All religions believe in an after-life. However the Buddhist doctrine of rebirth should be differentiated from the transmigration and reincarnation of other systems, because Buddhism denies the existence of a transmigrating permanent soul, created by a ...
... 1. Difference between Rebirth and Reincarnation All religions believe in an after-life. However the Buddhist doctrine of rebirth should be differentiated from the transmigration and reincarnation of other systems, because Buddhism denies the existence of a transmigrating permanent soul, created by a ...
What, If Anything, Is Mahyna Buddhism? Problems of Definitions and
... object of studyexists, which has been labeled "MahayanaBuddhism," and that certainsenses of its definitionand classificationare and have been held by studentsof this object.We may thereforefruitfullybegin by examiningsome of these ideas.1 An apparentlyfundamentalpresuppositionin at least most of the ...
... object of studyexists, which has been labeled "MahayanaBuddhism," and that certainsenses of its definitionand classificationare and have been held by studentsof this object.We may thereforefruitfullybegin by examiningsome of these ideas.1 An apparentlyfundamentalpresuppositionin at least most of the ...
Clark.19.4.Dec_.08
... openness to mind itself as non-dominated nature (right concentration or meditation).9 Snyder has written of such consciousness, the awakened state central to Buddhist practice, as “wild mind,” by which he means mind that is permitted to act freely and spontaneously, exhibiting the complexity, diver ...
... openness to mind itself as non-dominated nature (right concentration or meditation).9 Snyder has written of such consciousness, the awakened state central to Buddhist practice, as “wild mind,” by which he means mind that is permitted to act freely and spontaneously, exhibiting the complexity, diver ...
Karma, Character, and Consequentialism
... aim of the present enquiry is to determine which of these makes most sense as a theoretical explanation of karma. Despite the lack of research into the question, a consensus of a kind may be found in the dicta of scholars writing throughout the greater part of this century, and the consensus is that ...
... aim of the present enquiry is to determine which of these makes most sense as a theoretical explanation of karma. Despite the lack of research into the question, a consensus of a kind may be found in the dicta of scholars writing throughout the greater part of this century, and the consensus is that ...
Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
... we impose our will on others either through manipulation and intimidation or by appealing to the opinions of those more powerful than ourselves. Authority becomes a question of force rather than of integrity. Instead of presenting himself as a savior, the Buddha saw himself as a healer. He presented ...
... we impose our will on others either through manipulation and intimidation or by appealing to the opinions of those more powerful than ourselves. Authority becomes a question of force rather than of integrity. Instead of presenting himself as a savior, the Buddha saw himself as a healer. He presented ...