2012年9月9日 · That is a truth that many are not prepared for. There is a widespread misconception that realising anatta will be immediately bliss filled. In reality for many the result is intense " vertigo " and intial

2014年3月24日 · What the Buddha taught (the raft, meme, or whatever you want to call it) leads the mind to dispassion and letting go, to freeing one's mind from the conceptual proliferations and habits of self-identification (the process of I-making and my-making, the self meme, or whatever you want to call it) that give rise to stress and suffering.

2011年3月29日 · the buddha says, "all that i am is the result of all that i have thought". the buddha is referring to identity. thinking creates "i, my, me". don't think and where are you? it's not saying that thought itself can make things happen. thinking in accordance with action can make people do crazy shit. it can also make people do good things.

2007年5月27日 · The fact that the Buddha taught the four brahmaviharas was never contested; nevertheless, the Buddha also taught that alone, without the aide of insight, cultivation of the four brahmaviharas did not lead to Nibbana, but only to birth in the Brahma-world. The Buddha made a clear distinction between the two, whether or not you believe that this ...

2013年4月20日 · Its pretty surprising on the surface of it to hear that it is an actual quote of the Buddha. The link does a good job of explaining the context of the teaching and what the Buddha is talking about is attachment rather than metta. The quote says love not dear ones so the quote is a mistranslation or misrepresentation of the Buddha's actual message.

2021年1月13日 · Rubbing this Buddha statue’s back gives peace and strength. They are believed to take away your pain and be a source of happiness and joy in our lives. Holding his head in his hands, the statue signifies to share your feelings and grief with him. Weeping Buddha is a sculpture representing a sense of introspection of one’s self, own mind.

2015年10月2日 · It interested me to see that "arahat" is one of the epithets of Shakyamuni Buddha. Of course, this makes perfect sense -- I was just accustomed to hearing the terms used separately. I know in Mahayana there are multiple Buddhas and also, unlike in Theravada, the goal of practice is ultimately Buddhahood.

2023年11月29日 · When the Buddha came along 2500 years ago there had already been a long period of patriarchy and agricultural settlement. That he allowed women into his sangha was already forward thinking for the time, but he was wrong in thinking that it would have halved the time his movement would last. There are still men and women practicing the Dhamma today.

2011年8月10日 · Once again in the buddha's words "there is no evil that a liar is incapable of doing" The mind is already deluded, so if you lie on a coarser level which is speech, the subtler mental activity of the mind also inclines towards the lying.

2012年10月24日 · The Buddha would consider that karma neutral, just as long as it was not "seen, heard or suspected" by you, that the chicken was killed just for you and your meal. Now, if your friend had chickens in a coop and said "Come over tonight, I will slaughter a chicken for us and we will eat dinner", this would definitely not be permitted.