...is the first truth that the Buddha taught it is that life is suffering which is caused by craving i.e. life includes pain, getting old, disease, and ultimately death. We also endure psychological suffering like loneliness frustration, boredom, fear, embarrassment, disappointment and anger. It not only is this the suffering it is the dissatisfaction of the life of suffering that we have to endure and struggle through and that that unsatisfactory feeling is caused by Tanha which is craving. The other truths rest on this dissatisfaction of life and how we can over come it if we can life a dukkha free life. There are also three types of Dukkha which are Dukkha Dukkha, Dukkha Anicca and Dukkha Anatta. Dukkha Dukkha is the natural suffering that goes on in the world and that nothing in life is perfect. Dukkha Anicca is the most important Dukkha as it is the suffering that goes on because life is impermanent and that nothing lasts forever. Even the argument that rebirth is permanent is invalid because you are just reborn into more suffering and life becomes meaningless if that is your aim. Then Dukkha Anatta is the suffering that is because we have no soul,, the Buddha taught, what does carry on to the next life is a person's life force. The Karma can be good or bad,...
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...Nirvana is an ancient Buddhist horn blowing practice in stupa worship carried out by Buddhist faithful’s in their shrine to receive miracles. Lopez elaborates on the origin and the initial application of the nirvana. According to Lopez, the extraordinary relics used to make the special musical instrument were buffalo horns. The significance of the stupa worship is demonstrated in a narrative where the Vipavsi Buddha explains to a visiting prince on the practice. The Buddha teaches that the practice of conducted in the holy month of Kartik. During the exercise if a person is circumambulating stupas or monasteries playing musical instruments and blowing the horn, they get good fortune alongside religious merit. This exercise. When one does...
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...death and sin. |Tradition of personal spiritual development. | | | |They believe in the Trinity-God the father, son and the |The 3 Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha). | | | |Holy Spirit. |The 5 Moral Precepts. | | | |There is life after earthly death and they will join God |The 5 Parts of a Person. | | | |in the Kingdom of heaven for eternity and life if they |The 3 Marks of Being (Dukka, Anicca, Anatta). | | | |follow the Ten...
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...in order to realise the true nature of things. It is focusing on a neutral object such as the breath, a rock or a candle flame and ensuring the one-pointedness of the mind. This is unwavering and not being distracted easily. Meditation is a necessary part of the Eightfold Path. It helps develop other parts of the Eightfold Path such as wisdom (right mindfulness allows for the development of wisdom). It makes a clear mind and allows us to make good judgments. It also helps morality; it puts you in the right frame of mind to make right actions, right speech and right livelihood. It helps it contemplate other people’s feeling and takes any hatred that could result in wrong action. It can leads to insight about the universal truths (anatta, anicca and...
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...A Trail Of Thoughts For You To look Up. | B A Y O We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster. -- Carl Sagan Lumbini in Nepal. Bodhgaya (North India) Bodhicitta bodhisattvas anicca, Crepuscular Rays, Phosphenes “Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost” — Samuel Butler “COUNTRY” – EMPIRE OF THE SUN The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist Astrocytes... Stella matutina, (Morning star) Teenage wasteland Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours Stevie Wonder You Sexy Thing Hot Chocolate Superfly Curtis Mayfield Pulsars, Before a spirit can be summoned it must teach the shaman its song Amazonian Colombia One More Chance – THE Notorious Big Do for love – 2pac “Who you are is a decision you make by yourself, based on the cards you were dealt” ‘Greed stops human intelligence evolving into wisdom; human intelligence without wisdom becomes destructive. It can destroy every aspect of nature.’ Obsolete MuteMath flow is a state of effortless attention. Autotelic http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1xVtPX/www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0%252C28804%252C2085389_2085358_2085373%252C00.html Acid jazz knowledge about the future state is limited by the precision...
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...” --Buddha IMPERMANENCE The Buddha saw life as a running stream. A trickle running inexorably downhill whose path is comprised of a series of unpredictable twists and turns which join together to create an illusion of steady flow when in reality every pebble causes a ripple. Ultimately the stream will constantly change and alter its course. The stream we see today is most assuredly different then it appeared yesterday and far different than it may appear tomorrow. Such is life; moving from cause to effect, from one state to another constantly changing and evolving from one moment to the next – impermanent. Buddhism teaches that there are three main truths which must be mastered in order to exist in this world; Impermanence (anicca), Suffering (dukkha), and Insubstantiality (anattaa). It is said that our existence can only be understood if these three basic facts are comprehended not only logically, but in confrontation with one’s own experience (Thera 2006). How might one’s individual experiences allow us to understand the Way of Buddhism? As part of his journey to becoming a Buddhist monk, Kamo-no-Chomei, believed minimization through impermanence was the correct path to finding the Way. His rationale being; to live simply, devoid of material trappings in the middle of nowhere was the ideal method to practice impermanence. Despite his extreme efforts, ultimately ending his life in a tiny ten by ten hut, he realized that even the megerist comforts create attachment...
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...Buddhism – Week 3 | World View Chart | Origin of All Things | One of the first views on the origins of the Universe came from the Buddhist sūtras, and was formulated in the Abhidharma texts. In the sutras it states that the world was created from the collective karma or actions of living beings in the form of a primordial wind. From the Book of Dzyan the account of the origin of the universe describes it as a light or luminosity,” the actual moment of manifestation is described with the words, “darkness radiates light.” The book goes into more detail explaining that the whole world is dependent on a cause [for creation] because something cannot rise by itself, the cause here is light. From the light comes knowledge, from knowledge comes air, from air the fire, from fire the water and from the water the earth is born. If quoted in reverse this tantra also explains the dissolution of the world. (Reigle, 2013)The origins of the religion itself explain the if we can understand where our suffering comes from we can become free. This means that a person must take responsibility for their own lives, and dutifully practice the religious teachings of Buddha in order to achieve the ultimate goal of liberation from suffering or Nirvana. (Fisher, 2011 p. 135) | Nature of God/Creator | Buddhism is a nontheistic religion, which means they do not believe in any supreme being or God. Many People believe that Buddhists worship Buddha; this however is not the case. The Buddha was a human...
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...Jainism Mahavira- the 24th teacher and the last Tirthankara Tirthankara- a person who has concourd discipline, samsara, and helps provide a path for others Digambara- one of the two major schools in Jainism (for males) Svetambara- a member of the two principle sects of Jainism (for Females) Samsara- the cycle of death and rebirth Moksha- overcoming the cycle of death and rebirth (the ultimate goal) Nirvana- same as moksha Kalpas- book containing biography’s of the tirthankaras Jina- councord temptation and moral discipline Jiva- the spiritual part of something Ajiva- the physical part of something Ahimsa- symbol meaning do no harm Aparigraha- being non-greedy (it’s a virtue) Anekantwad- the idea of mutual respect between others Sallekhana- practice of facing death voluntarily Swastika symbol meaning peace Kevala- the supreme knowledge Questions: 1.What is the central concept in Jainism? 2.How is time understood in Jainism? Time is cyclical 3.What is the difference between Hindu and Jain views of karma? Jains can escape the cycle of karma where as hindus can not 4.What are the two monastic orders in Jainism? Name one difference between the two. There is the Svetambara and the digambara. The digambaba is for males and the svetambara is for females Sikhism: Adi Granth (Guru Granth Sahib): received authority from guru gobind singh when he died. Guro granth sahib means living guru. Adi granth= kritan raga. Also is a holy scripture. Amrit: Amrit...
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...Danielle Copley Professor REL2300 4/7/13 What does it mean to be Human? There are many religions in the world each one is unique. I have often wondered what it means to be human in other religions other than Christianity. We will explore what it means in both the Hindu and Buddhist religions. We will start off with Hinduism. The Upanishads, perceived the individual self or atman as the immortal pure essence of each being. Hindus believe that everything has a soul. The atman is not the body; the body is not eternal. The body houses the atman until the body dies. Atman is immortal and eternal. All human beings are positioned in the all- embracing Brahman or the absolute. The Upanishads describe the Brahman as the eternal, conscious, irreducible, spiritual source of the universe of finiteness and change. Brahman is impersonal being in itself but it can be known through the many gods and goddesses that are manifestations of Brahman. We will look at atman first. . Moksha is the spiritual release from the cycle of life. In moksha the individual soul joins the atman. Atman is the eternal self, refers to the self beyond ego or false self. It is often referred to as spirit or soul and indicates the true self and underlies our existence. The individual soul becoming part of the larger soul of the universe. Achieving Moksha can span over many lifetimes. This process requires loss of attachment to life and the things in life. It also requires a balance of karma by a person’s duty...
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...Life After Death. What the specification requires: • An examination of the arguments for and against life after death. • Reincarnation. • Rebirth. • Resurrection. • Immortality of the soul. Introduction. Humans have refused to accept that this life is all we get for thousands of years. As a result of this refusal, humans have developed various theories to explain that when our bodies cease working, there is some kind of existence that takes place after this. Obviously, before getting into this debate, it is important to agree on what is meant by the word ‘death.’ ‘…when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone…an absolute and total loss of the brain function that cannot be reversed.’ This is a medical definition and is based upon medical methods of determining physical (brain) death. These methods are generally the use of an electroencephalograph (EEG) to determine brain function, an examination of pupil size and reaction and obviously, a check of blood flow (pulse), heart beat and respiration. It is generally accepted that once a body exhibits brain stem death, i.e. that there is no activity in the most primitive part of the brain, that death has occurred. What makes a human being? Theories concerning life after death are all interested in whether or not there is a part of the human body which survives the death of all the physical parts and where (or indeed when) it goes. There are a number of theories...
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...I closed my eyes and listened to his voice. I heard Buddha’s voice in mind. “What is going on?” “Am I imagining this?” I heard his voice in my ears. Happy place, happy place. The garden filled with happy times of me with my wife, Eve; my beautiful Eve. I pictured us together in the garden and then something started to happen inside of me. I felt this power. I saw Buddha there with us in the garden glowing. Qiao told me to open my eyes and stand up. So I stood up with a teardrop running down my face. Qiao told me to use that power and channel it through my fists. Qiao told me to swing both my hands now. As I swung, Qiao placed a thick piece of wood in my way. I felt the life from my soul go through my hands. Both of my fists struck the wood and it broke up into small pieces. Qiao smiled at me saying, “My friend, you have found the middle way,” and then bowed to me. Buddha said with a big smile on his face, “You have just learnt the Almighty push. Also, another reason we don't use it too often is because channeling the power of your soul will shorten your life with every use. It is called the Almighty push for a reason. You're pushing out the power that was given by the Almighty God. That tear that I shed was not from sadness but joy. If you have ever cried from joy, you will then find true happiness. There, Buddha told me his work was done and went back to his place to meditate. Qiao was in shock. He told me he couldn’t believe that Buddha got up to speak. Qiao started to...
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...Karma: BG 31-36; 92-93; Chopra, Leder/aging, Leder/prayer, (M1) (s-l orientation posting) February 3 Karma and Reincarnation: BG 235-241;WR 63-75; Fox, Bache pdf (H2) (G1) 5 Karma Yoga: WR 26-29, 37-41; BG 93-109 (S1) 10 Karma Yoga and Gandhi; BG 48-63t (H3) (G2) 12 Jnana Yoga; BG 111-131; WR 29m-32m; Ramana Maharshi link (M2) 17 TEST #1 (S2) 19 Raja and Bhakti Yoga WR 41b-50m; BG 133-45; Muktananda pdf 24 BhaktiYoga/Gods and Goddesses; WR 32t-36; BG 169-77; Sanatan, Ramakrishna link (G3) 26 The Cosmic Vision: Gods and Gurus BG 191-209; 262-65 Ram Dass (Neem Karoli Baba) pdf (M3) (H4) March 10 Introduction to Buddhism and the Buddha; WR 82-99; Leder/Buddha pdf; Buddha film 12 The Four Noble Truths, Anicca; WR 99-103b; Sogyal Rinpoche pdf (H5) 17 Anatta, Interbeing, Nirvana; WR 112-119; PS 95-104; Bresnan pdf (S3) 19 Right Views, Intent,...
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...第一部分：戒 第六章 为何我们生于此？ 这次雨安居我不太有力，身体欠安，所以来山上呼吸点新鲜空气。人们来拜防，我也无法如往常般接待他们，因声音沙哑，气息奄奄。大家现在还能看见这身体坐在这里，也算是种福份，很快就会看不见了。气将尽，声将息，它们会如其他所有因缘和合的事物般，随著其他支撑的元素一起消逝，佛陀称此为「灭尽衰灭」(khaya vayam)。 根本没有任何人只有地、水、火、风 它们如何坏灭？想像一块冰，它原来只是水，将它冷冻后就变成冰，但不久就融化了。取一大块冰放在太阳下，可以看见它如何消解，身体也差不多是如此。它会逐渐瓦解，不久就只剩下一滩水，这就称为「灭尽衰灭」。自古以来，它一直如此，当我们出生时，就带著这坏灭的本质来到世间，无从回避，从一出生，老、病、死就和我们结伴而来。 所以，佛陀要说「灭尽衰灭」。现在，所有坐在讲堂里的人，无论比丘、沙弥或在家男女，无一例外，都是一堆会坏灭元素的组合。现在这堆东西就如冰块一样坚固，冰块从水开始，暂时变成冰，然后融化。你们能看见自己身体的这个败坏过程吗？看看这身体每天都在老化——头髪在变老，指甲在变老，每样东西都在变老。 你们不会一直都像这样，会吗？过去的你们要比现在小很多，现在长大与成熟了。从现在起，你们将随顺自然的方式，慢慢衰老。身体就如冰块一样衰坏，很快就消失了。 一切的身体都是由地、水、火、风四大元素所组成，匪聚后称之为「人」。我们受它迷惑，说它是男人或女人，为它命名而称某某先生、女士等，如此一来，更容易相互辨认。但事实上，其中没有任何「人」，只有地、水、火、风。当它们聚合成形时，我们称这结果为「人」，但切莫高兴得太早，若真的深入观察它，其中根本没有任何「人」。 身体坚硬的部分——肉、皮肤、骨头等，称为「地界」；身体液体的部分则是「水界」；身体温暖的机能是「火界」；在身体里流动的气体则是「风界」。 在巴蓬寺有具看来既非男也非女的身体，它是具骷髅，挂在大会堂中。看著它，你不会有男人或女人的感觉。人们彼此询问那是男人或女人，而所能做的只是茫然地面面相觑。它只足具骷髅，所有的皮、肉都消失了。 人们从不曾真正看过自己 人们对这些事都很无知。有些人来到巴蓬寺，走进大会堂，看见骷髅立刻夺门而出！他们不忍卒睹，害怕骷髅。我想这些人以前一定未看过自己，他们应该反省骷髅的珍贵价值。要到寺院来必须乘车或走路，若没有骨头，怎么办得到？他们能走路吗？但坐车来到巴蓬寺，走进大会堂，看见骷髅却夺门而出！他们从未看过这东西，其实他们生来就有一副，却从未看过它。 现在有机会看见，真的非常幸运。即使老人看见也会受到惊吓，这究竟是怎么一回事？这表示他们对自己完全陌生，不曾真的认识自己，也许回家后会失眠三、四天……不过，他们仍和一副骷髅睡在一起！无伦穿衣、吃饭或做任何事都在一起，但他们却害怕它。 人们如此疏于接触自己，真是可怜！他们总是向外看，看树、看人、看外界事物，说：「这个是大的」、「那个是小的」、「这是短的」、「那是长的」。他们如此急于看其他东西，但从不曾看过自己。老实说，人们真的很可怜，他们没有皈依处。 在受戒仪式中，戒子必须学习五项基本的禅修主题：头发、体毛、指甲、牙齿、皮肤。①有些学生和受过教育者在仪式中听到这部分时会暗自窃笑：「到底阿姜想教我们什么呢？竟然教导一生下就有的头发，他无须教这些，他们早就知道了。为何要教导我们早已知道的事呢？」 愚人就是如此，自以为早就看过头发了。我告诉他们，当我说「看头发」时，意思是如实地看见它，如实地看见体毛、指甲、牙齿与皮肤。 这才是我所谓的「看」——...
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