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Very interesting , Thank you for sharing your new knowledge with us
posted by
Sinome
on March 15, 2008 at 9:33 PM
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Afzal
Thank you sweetie. I am blessed!
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on March 15, 2008 at 10:47 AM
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Xeno-x
Nice to see you. Thank you so much!
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on March 15, 2008 at 10:46 AM
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MyrddinWyllt
Great to know! Thanks!
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on March 15, 2008 at 10:45 AM
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Thanks for sharing the info on Buddism . Excellent post indeed !
posted by
afzal50
on March 15, 2008 at 10:10 AM
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good thoughts
posted by
Xeno-x
on March 13, 2008 at 1:16 PM
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Re: MyrddinWyllt
Yip, I think you've got it.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on March 11, 2008 at 10:48 PM
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Bhaskar
Yes, that is quite interesting.
Thanks so much for sharing that.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on March 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM
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Sunny, nice to see you writing on Buddha
When Buddha was born, he was born standing, it is said that he walked eight steps and declared that the world (
Samsara) is 'Dukkha',that is, nothing else but pain, and later grew up to annihilate Dukkha from the face of humanity. Interesting, isn't it?
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on March 11, 2008 at 10:40 AM
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Thanks, Sam!
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on March 10, 2008 at 8:48 PM
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MyrddinWyllt
Thanks for these explanations.
The lesson plan doesn't go into a lot of details, only a few small areas.
Perhaps I have misinterpreted or explained it wrong? The senses thing was based on information that the instructor got from a translation by Edward Conze in The Buddhist Scriptures(1959).
It implies that people can get attached to sense objects when the mind has unreal imaginations about them. That it is the imaginations that cause an object to be perceived as something it is not.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on March 10, 2008 at 8:47 PM
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Kayzzaman
Thanks!
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on March 10, 2008 at 8:41 PM
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I am going to agree with Kaz! sam
posted by
sam444
on March 10, 2008 at 4:10 PM
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Buddha believed that the senses cause us to become dependent on material possessions, and that if we can detach ourselves and see an object as what it really is...just an object, we can reduce our suffering by no longer desiring things that we don't really need. This is not correct:
One of the core teachings of Buddhism is called "Dependent Arising" and "Emptiness of own nature". In other words, there are no "objects" as such existing in and of themselves. There appears to be objects to the untrained mind but in reality everything is conditioned by other conditioned phenomena and everything arises in dependance on other similarly dependently arisen phenomena. This leads to a view of process or events rather than objects or solid entities. Current scientific views support this view.
Buddhism is also not about believing anything. It is about becoming convinced about the nature of reality through direct experience and direct insight into the processes usually construed to be independent self existing objects. Belief is only incorporated into Buddhism for those who are not yet well acquainted with the nature of reality, but the Buddha himself and all other enlightened beings have no believes whatsoever. They KNOW. This knowledge is however not academic in nature. Academic knowledge rely on words. Words are phenomena with the same characteristic of dependant arising and emptiness of own nature. Therefore words cannot convey the knowledge of the nature of reality. You have to follow the path yourself and find out for yourself what all this is about. This knowledge is called Gnosis in the Christian tradition. You can replace "Nature of Reality" with "Nature of God" since God is Reality. It is only our ignorance that veils the nature of God from our direct experience.
I hope this gives you a better indication of what Buddhism is about. It is not something that is easy to understand if you have not spent a lot of time and effort practicing "being still to know God" (Meditation). Good luck with your studies and may all sentient beings benefit from the merits you gain from your wholesome efforts.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on March 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM
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Thank you, Sunny
posted by
Kayzzaman
on March 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM
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