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A Study of the Buddha’s Travels
By Bhante Shravasti Dhammika
The only two of the great religious teachers who were successful during their own lifetimes were Mohammed and Gotama Buddha. Both had long teaching careers and both lived to see their respective religions firmly established. Prof. Basham has written that Buddhism was a minor religion until its adoption and promotion by King Asoka. Basham bases his assumption on the fact that there is no archaeological evidence of Buddhism before Asoka’s time but this seems to me to be a rather weak argument. What physical evidence are wandering ascetics, which are what the Buddha’s disciples were, likely to leave? They established few permanent monasteries and those they did build were made of mud, bamboo and thatch. As for stupas, these did not become an important feature of Buddhist worship until about the 3nd century BCE.
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A Study of the Buddha’s Travels
By Bhante Shravasti Dhammika
The only two of the great religious teachers who were successful during their own lifetimes were Mohammed and Gotama Buddha. Both had long teaching careers and both lived to see their respective religions firmly established. Prof. Basham has written that Buddhism was a minor religion until its adoption and promotion by King Asoka. Basham bases his assumption on the fact that there is no archaeological evidence of Buddhism before Asoka’s time but this seems to me to be a rather weak argument. What physical evidence are wandering ascetics, which are what the Buddha’s disciples were, likely to leave? They established few permanent monasteries and those they did build were made of mud, bamboo and thatch. As for stupas, these did not become an important feature of Buddhist worship until about the 3nd century BCE.
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7. Màvamaññetha puññassa
na mam tam àgamissati.
Udabindunipàtena
udakumbho' pi purati
Purati dhãro puññassa
thokathokam pi àcinam. 122.
THINK NOT LIGHTLY OF GOOD
7. Do not disregard merit, saying "It will not come nigh unto me"; by the falling of drops even a water-jar is filled; likewise the wise man, gathering little by little, fills himself with good. 122.
Story
A wise man, hearing the Buddha preach on the giving of alms, induced a whole village to give alms to the Buddha and the Sangha according to their means. When he went collecting provisions a rich man, misconstruing his motive, contributed a very small amount. While thanks were being offered to the various donors the rich man went there with the object of killing the wise man if he should speak disparagingly of him. The wise man on the contrary thanked all equally and wished them a great reward. The rich man felt remorse and sought his pardon.
Hearing the story, the Buddha discoursed on the value of even a small gift.
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na mam tam àgamissati.
Udabindunipàtena
udakumbho' pi purati
Purati dhãro puññassa
thokathokam pi àcinam. 122.
THINK NOT LIGHTLY OF GOOD
7. Do not disregard merit, saying "It will not come nigh unto me"; by the falling of drops even a water-jar is filled; likewise the wise man, gathering little by little, fills himself with good. 122.
Story
A wise man, hearing the Buddha preach on the giving of alms, induced a whole village to give alms to the Buddha and the Sangha according to their means. When he went collecting provisions a rich man, misconstruing his motive, contributed a very small amount. While thanks were being offered to the various donors the rich man went there with the object of killing the wise man if he should speak disparagingly of him. The wise man on the contrary thanked all equally and wished them a great reward. The rich man felt remorse and sought his pardon.
Hearing the story, the Buddha discoursed on the value of even a small gift.
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Swayambhunath Great Stupa, mainly featuring the white-domed stupa with four sets of all-seeing Buddha eyes, Kathmandu, Nepal, one of the most ancient and important stupas in the world, having hosted numerous Buddhas of the past: Konagamana Buddha, Kakusandha Buddha, Kassapa Buddha and Gautama Buddha. A UNESCO world heritage site.
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Avalokitesvara Buddhagaya Watugong Pagoda, Semarang city, Java island, Indonesia.
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Mindfulness Precepts
And Crashing in the Same Car
By Ajahn Jayasaro
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Mindfulness Precepts
And Crashing in the Same Car
By Ajahn Jayasaro
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By Ajahn Jayasaro
A book, based on a talk given by Ajahn Jayasaro on November 9th 2009, comprised of several inspirational mini stories from Mindfulness of the Present Moment, Opening up the the Truth of Things, Liberation and Precepts, Crashing in the Same Car to Samadhi and Kammathana.
Be inspired by these mini stories while learning the essence of the teachings of Lord Buddha.
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Mindfulness Precepts
And Crashing in the Same Car
By Ajahn Jayasaro
A book, based on a talk given by Ajahn Jayasaro on November 9th 2009, comprised of several inspirational mini stories from Mindfulness of the Present Moment, Opening up the the Truth of Things, Liberation and Precepts, Crashing in the Same Car to Samadhi and Kammathana.
Be inspired by these mini stories while learning the essence of the teachings of Lord Buddha.
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8. Vàuijo' va bhayam maggam
appasattho mahaddhano
Visam jãvitukàmo' va
pàpàni parivajjaye. 123.
SHUN EVIL LIKE A PERILOUS PATH
8. Just as a merchant, with a small escort and great wealth, avoids a perilous route, just as one desiring to live avoids poison, even so should one shun evil things. 123.
Story
A merchant, accompanied by many monks, set out with a caravan. Some robbers tried to waylay him but failed in their attempt. The monks left the merchant and went to the Buddha and told Him of the attempt of the robbers. Thereupon the Buddha uttered this verse.
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appasattho mahaddhano
Visam jãvitukàmo' va
pàpàni parivajjaye. 123.
SHUN EVIL LIKE A PERILOUS PATH
8. Just as a merchant, with a small escort and great wealth, avoids a perilous route, just as one desiring to live avoids poison, even so should one shun evil things. 123.
Story
A merchant, accompanied by many monks, set out with a caravan. Some robbers tried to waylay him but failed in their attempt. The monks left the merchant and went to the Buddha and told Him of the attempt of the robbers. Thereupon the Buddha uttered this verse.
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Shrine for pure gold sitting Sakyamuni Buddha at Brahma Palace, Ling Shan scenic area, the most expensive Buddhist compound in modern history. The large complex has world tallest standing bronze Amitabha Buddha statue, world largest Buddha's hand square, Indian style gigantic Brahma Palace, Tibetan style Five Mudras Mandala Palace, Nine Dragons Buddha bathing fountain, Maitreya Buddha with 100 children, Xiangfu Buddhist temple, Thai style Flying Dragon stupas, Buddha's footprints altar and two man-made lakes.
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As a rocky mountain
is unwavering and well grounded,
so when delusion ends,
a monk, like a mountain, doesn’t tremble.
To the man who has not a blemish
who is always seeking purity,
even a hair-tip of evil
seems as big as a cloud.
As a frontier city
is guarded inside and out,
so you should ward yourselves—
don’t let the moment pass you by.
I don’t long for death;
I don’t long for life;
I await my time,
like a worker waiting for their wages.
I don’t long for death;
I don’t long for life;
I await my time,
aware and mindful.
I’ve served the teacher
and fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.
The heavy burden is laid down,
the conduit to rebirth is eradicated.
I’ve attained the goal
for the sake of which I went forth
from the lay life to homelessness—
the ending of all fetters.
Persist with diligence:
this is my instruction.
Come, I’ll be fully extinguished—
I’m liberated in every way.
Partial excerpts from Thag 14.1 Khadiravaniyarevatattheragāthā: Khadiravaniyarevata
is unwavering and well grounded,
so when delusion ends,
a monk, like a mountain, doesn’t tremble.
To the man who has not a blemish
who is always seeking purity,
even a hair-tip of evil
seems as big as a cloud.
As a frontier city
is guarded inside and out,
so you should ward yourselves—
don’t let the moment pass you by.
I don’t long for death;
I don’t long for life;
I await my time,
like a worker waiting for their wages.
I don’t long for death;
I don’t long for life;
I await my time,
aware and mindful.
I’ve served the teacher
and fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.
The heavy burden is laid down,
the conduit to rebirth is eradicated.
I’ve attained the goal
for the sake of which I went forth
from the lay life to homelessness—
the ending of all fetters.
Persist with diligence:
this is my instruction.
Come, I’ll be fully extinguished—
I’m liberated in every way.
Partial excerpts from Thag 14.1 Khadiravaniyarevatattheragāthā: Khadiravaniyarevata
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9. Pàuimhi ce vauo n'àssa
hareyya pàuinà visam
Nàbbauam visam anveti
natthi pàpam akubbato. 124.
NO EVIL TO THOSE WHO HAVE NO BAD INTENTION
9. If no wound there be in one's hand, one may carry poison in it. Poison does not affect one who has no wound. There is no ill for him who does no wrong. 7 124.
Story
A rich man's daughter, who was a Stream-Winner, fell in love with a hunter owing to past association, and eloped with him. She gave birth to several sons. The wife, although a Sotàpanna, was in the habit of giving bows and arrows to the husband to go hunting. Amongst the monks a question arose whether she committed an evil by doing so. The Buddha explained that she was blameless as she did so in obedience to her husband and having no evil intention.
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hareyya pàuinà visam
Nàbbauam visam anveti
natthi pàpam akubbato. 124.
NO EVIL TO THOSE WHO HAVE NO BAD INTENTION
9. If no wound there be in one's hand, one may carry poison in it. Poison does not affect one who has no wound. There is no ill for him who does no wrong. 7 124.
Story
A rich man's daughter, who was a Stream-Winner, fell in love with a hunter owing to past association, and eloped with him. She gave birth to several sons. The wife, although a Sotàpanna, was in the habit of giving bows and arrows to the husband to go hunting. Amongst the monks a question arose whether she committed an evil by doing so. The Buddha explained that she was blameless as she did so in obedience to her husband and having no evil intention.
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Commentary to the Cariyapitaka
By Acariya Dhammapala, translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Commentary to the Cariyapitaka
By Acariya Dhammapala, translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Commentary to the Cariyapitaka
By Acariya Dhammapala, translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi
In its earliest phase, as represented by the four main collections of the Sutta Pitaka, the focal concern of Buddhism was the attainment of nibbåna by the practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. In these collections the Buddha teaches his doctrine as a direct path to deliverance, and perhaps no feature of the presentation is so striking as the urgency he enjoins on his disciples in bringing their spiritual work to completion by reaching the final goal. Just as a man who discovers his turban to be in flames would immediately seek to extinguish it, so should the earnest disciple strive to extinguish the flames of craving in order to reach the state of security, the consummate peace of nibbana.
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Commentary to the Cariyapitaka
By Acariya Dhammapala, translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi
In its earliest phase, as represented by the four main collections of the Sutta Pitaka, the focal concern of Buddhism was the attainment of nibbåna by the practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. In these collections the Buddha teaches his doctrine as a direct path to deliverance, and perhaps no feature of the presentation is so striking as the urgency he enjoins on his disciples in bringing their spiritual work to completion by reaching the final goal. Just as a man who discovers his turban to be in flames would immediately seek to extinguish it, so should the earnest disciple strive to extinguish the flames of craving in order to reach the state of security, the consummate peace of nibbana.
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The Third and a Half Noble Truth
Theravada monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu provides a timeless teaching on searching for happiness in areas tethered to suffering.
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Part 1 of 2
The Buddha’s teachings are like a buffet table, with lots of different things you can take from it: how to live happily in this life, how to prepare for a happy life in the next life, and how to get out of lives altogether, which doesn’t mean death—because death is a part of life—but there’s an escape from both life and death, which the Buddha said is the ultimate happiness. Yet that’s the part of the buffet table to which a lot of people say, “I’m not ready for that yet.” So there are other things you can take.
His teaching on how to find happiness in this life basically comes down to learning how to be hardworking, taking initiative, realizing that if you’re going to make a living happily, you have to choose an honest livelihood and put forth the effort to do it well.
Then when you’ve gained things rightly, you take care of them.
Third, you spend in line with your income. In other words, you’re not too miserly, yet at the same time you’re not too spendthrift. We would expect the Buddha to say, “Don’t be a spendthrift,” but interestingly, he says not to be too miserly, either. He says to get some enjoyment out of the wealth you gain from your work, because if you can’t enjoy your wealth, you turn into a very shriveled kind of person. You resent the pleasures that other people find in life.
Then, finally, have good friends. Admirable friends. People who would keep you steered in the right direction. They have four qualities that he enumerates, and it turns out the four qualities are the qualities that also lead to a good life in a future rebirth. In other words, look for friends you can take as examples of how to live in a way that keeps you happy now and in lives to come.
Those qualities start with conviction, which means conviction in the Buddha’s awakening. What does that mean for you? It means that through the power of your own actions, you can make a difference in your life—your happiness depends on your actions, and the quality of your intention is what shapes the results of each action. That doesn’t mean having just good intentions. A really high-quality intention is also free of delusion, which means you have to be very reflective in what you do: looking carefully at what you do, looking at the results, learning from your mistakes, and always aiming at long-term happiness.
We talked briefly today about when to take a stand and when not to take a stand on an issue, and it has nothing to do with your feelings about the issue. It has everything to do with what you anticipate will be the long-term consequences of what you do or don’t do. All too often we have weak conviction in that principle, because it’s too easy to go for short-term gratification, the quick fix, the things that are immediately to hand. But the Buddha wants you to adopt a larger perspective, because that’s one of the messages of his awakening: There is this possibility that you can be reborn in line with your actions. So what does that tell you about your actions, how much attention you should give to them, how much care you should take?
That’s the first quality of a good friend and the first quality that leads to happiness in future lifetimes.
The second quality is virtue: the desire to be harmless in your words and your deeds. This basically comes down to looking after your intentions, because the intention is what determines the quality of the action, as we said. So make sure that your intentions are harmless.
When the Buddha was teaching his son, he basically said, “If you think that the act you intend to do could cause any harm, don’t do it. Act only on your best intentions.” It’s when you act on your best intentions that you learn. If you know you’re acting on unskillful intentions and you get bad results, you haven’t learned much.
Theravada monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu provides a timeless teaching on searching for happiness in areas tethered to suffering.
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Part 1 of 2
The Buddha’s teachings are like a buffet table, with lots of different things you can take from it: how to live happily in this life, how to prepare for a happy life in the next life, and how to get out of lives altogether, which doesn’t mean death—because death is a part of life—but there’s an escape from both life and death, which the Buddha said is the ultimate happiness. Yet that’s the part of the buffet table to which a lot of people say, “I’m not ready for that yet.” So there are other things you can take.
His teaching on how to find happiness in this life basically comes down to learning how to be hardworking, taking initiative, realizing that if you’re going to make a living happily, you have to choose an honest livelihood and put forth the effort to do it well.
Then when you’ve gained things rightly, you take care of them.
Third, you spend in line with your income. In other words, you’re not too miserly, yet at the same time you’re not too spendthrift. We would expect the Buddha to say, “Don’t be a spendthrift,” but interestingly, he says not to be too miserly, either. He says to get some enjoyment out of the wealth you gain from your work, because if you can’t enjoy your wealth, you turn into a very shriveled kind of person. You resent the pleasures that other people find in life.
Then, finally, have good friends. Admirable friends. People who would keep you steered in the right direction. They have four qualities that he enumerates, and it turns out the four qualities are the qualities that also lead to a good life in a future rebirth. In other words, look for friends you can take as examples of how to live in a way that keeps you happy now and in lives to come.
Those qualities start with conviction, which means conviction in the Buddha’s awakening. What does that mean for you? It means that through the power of your own actions, you can make a difference in your life—your happiness depends on your actions, and the quality of your intention is what shapes the results of each action. That doesn’t mean having just good intentions. A really high-quality intention is also free of delusion, which means you have to be very reflective in what you do: looking carefully at what you do, looking at the results, learning from your mistakes, and always aiming at long-term happiness.
We talked briefly today about when to take a stand and when not to take a stand on an issue, and it has nothing to do with your feelings about the issue. It has everything to do with what you anticipate will be the long-term consequences of what you do or don’t do. All too often we have weak conviction in that principle, because it’s too easy to go for short-term gratification, the quick fix, the things that are immediately to hand. But the Buddha wants you to adopt a larger perspective, because that’s one of the messages of his awakening: There is this possibility that you can be reborn in line with your actions. So what does that tell you about your actions, how much attention you should give to them, how much care you should take?
That’s the first quality of a good friend and the first quality that leads to happiness in future lifetimes.
The second quality is virtue: the desire to be harmless in your words and your deeds. This basically comes down to looking after your intentions, because the intention is what determines the quality of the action, as we said. So make sure that your intentions are harmless.
When the Buddha was teaching his son, he basically said, “If you think that the act you intend to do could cause any harm, don’t do it. Act only on your best intentions.” It’s when you act on your best intentions that you learn. If you know you’re acting on unskillful intentions and you get bad results, you haven’t learned much.
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In fact, sometimes you pretend that you didn’t have those bad intentions to begin with, which means they go underground. Reflecting on your actions works only if you act on your best intentions. If they get bad results, you can say, “There’s something new I have to learn here.” If you can’t figure it out on your own, go to others for advice.
Reflecting on your actions works only if you act on your best intentions.
We usually hear about virtue in terms of the five precepts, but it’s also expressed in qualities of the heart, qualities of the character—things like contentment, the willingness to go out of your way to be helpful to other people, the willingness not to be burdensome. Those are all parts of virtue as well.
The third quality you look for in an admirable friend is generosity—people who like to share what they have. After all, if they’re intent on sharing, that means they probably won’t try to take things away from you unfairly. You benefit from their generosity and you also benefit from their example as a good friend, as someone who reminds you that the best things in life are not material objects—they’re qualities of the heart.
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Reflecting on your actions works only if you act on your best intentions.
We usually hear about virtue in terms of the five precepts, but it’s also expressed in qualities of the heart, qualities of the character—things like contentment, the willingness to go out of your way to be helpful to other people, the willingness not to be burdensome. Those are all parts of virtue as well.
The third quality you look for in an admirable friend is generosity—people who like to share what they have. After all, if they’re intent on sharing, that means they probably won’t try to take things away from you unfairly. You benefit from their generosity and you also benefit from their example as a good friend, as someone who reminds you that the best things in life are not material objects—they’re qualities of the heart.
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