Buddhist Sermon in English: Healthy Life in Buddhism – Video
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Buddhist Sermon in English: Healthy Life in Buddhism
English sermon. (Key words) Hawaii, Jodo Mission, Jodo-shu, Haleiwa, Haleiwa Jodo Mission, Buddhist, sermon.
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Is your government school teaching Buddhism? – Video
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Is your government school teaching Buddhism?
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Andrew Holecek – The Now and Future of Buddhism – Video
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Andrew Holecek - The Now and Future of Buddhism
Andrew Holecek discusses 12 important considerations for the future of Buddhism. From the Fourth Turning Media Program: http://fourthturningbuddhism.com/prog...
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AMAZING lesson from Buddhism in just 2 Minutes – Video
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AMAZING lesson from Buddhism in just 2 Minutes
"It is One of the rarest things in universe to hear the words of Lord Buddha" May all attain Nibbana.
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Tibetan Buddhism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tibetan Buddhism[1] is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Bhutan, Kalmykia and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, and India (particularly in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Dharamsala, Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim). It is the state religion of Bhutan.[2] It is also practiced in Mongolia and parts of Russia (Kalmykia, Buryatia, and Tuva) and Northeast China. Religious texts and commentaries are contained in the Tibetan Buddhist canon such that Tibetan is a spiritual language of these areas.
The Tibetan diaspora has spread Tibetan Buddhism to many Western countries, where the tradition has gained popularity.[3] Among its prominent exponents is the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. The number of its adherents is estimated to be between ten and twenty million.[4]
Tibetan Buddhism comprises the teachings of the three vehicles of Buddhism: the Foundational Vehicle, Mahyna, and Vajrayna. The Mahyna goal of spiritual development is to achieve the enlightenment of buddhahood in order to most efficiently help all other sentient beings attain this state.[5] The motivation in it is the bodhicitta mind of enlightenment an altruistic intention to become enlightened for the sake of all sentient beings.[6]Bodhisattvas are revered beings who have conceived the will and vow to dedicate their lives with bodhicitta for the sake of all beings. Tibetan Buddhism teaches methods for achieving buddhahood more quickly by including the Vajrayna path in Mahyna.[7]
Buddhahood is defined as a state free of the obstructions to liberation as well as those to omniscience.[8] When one is freed from all mental obscurations,[9] one is said to attain a state of continuous bliss mixed with a simultaneous cognition of emptiness,[10] the true nature of reality.[11] In this state, all limitations on one's ability to help other living beings are removed.[12]
It is said that there are countless beings who have attained buddhahood.[13] Buddhas spontaneously, naturally and continuously perform activities to benefit all sentient beings.[14] However it is believed that one's karma could limit the ability of the Buddhas to help them. Thus, although Buddhas possess no limitation from their side on their ability to help others, sentient beings continue to experience suffering as a result of the limitations of their own former negative actions.[15]
There is a long history of oral transmission of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism. Oral transmissions by lineage holders traditionally can take place in small groups or mass gatherings of listeners and may last for seconds (in the case of a mantra, for example) or months (as in the case of a section of the Tibetan Buddhist canon). A transmission can even occur without actually hearing, as in Asanga's visions of Maitreya.
An emphasis on oral transmission as more important than the printed word derives from the earliest period of Indian Buddhism, when it allowed teachings to be kept from those who should not hear them.[16] Hearing a teaching (transmission) readies the hearer for realization based on it. The person from whom one hears the teaching should have heard it as one link in a succession of listeners going back to the original speaker: the Buddha in the case of a sutra or the author in the case of a book. Then the hearing constitutes an authentic lineage of transmission. Authenticity of the oral lineage is a prerequisite for realization, hence the importance of lineages.
Spontaneous realization on the basis of transmission is possible but rare. Normally an intermediate step is needed in the form of analytic meditation, i.e., thinking about what one has heard. As part of this process, entertaining doubts and engaging in internal debate over them is encouraged in some traditions.[17]
Analytic meditation is just one of two general methods of meditation. When it achieves the quality of realization, one is encouraged to switch to "focused" or "fixation" meditation. In this the mind is stabilized on that realization for periods long enough to gradually habituate it to it.
A person's capacity for analytic meditation can be trained with logic. The capacity for successful focused meditation can be trained through calm abiding. A meditation routine may involve alternating sessions of analytic meditation to achieve deeper levels of realization, and focused meditation to consolidate them.[11] The deepest level of realization is Buddhahood itself.
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Buddhism reform panel disbanded
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Key junta member welcomes two-year ban
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Team GB captain Lawrence Clarke's near-death experience inspires him on the track
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Through his problems Clarke has always remained focused on his goals, given perspective at a young age by a horrific freak accident.
Before his athletics career Clarke only had eyes for mountaineering, desperate to be an explorer until one tragic day that stays with him and inspires him on the track.
When I was 15, I was climbing with a guide up the back side of the Grand Combin, near Verbier in Switzerland, he said. There was a group of six Germans, and one in the middle slipped off the cliff. Because I was with the only guide, he had to organise the mountain rescue because there were 70mph winds and the helicopters couldnt get in.
Traumatically, I was taken down to this group of Germans in their thirties crying their eyes out. Aged 15, Im sitting there going, My God.
The guide came back with an ice axe and I was wondering if this was a film or reality. When we were back at the hut, there was just a hand hanging off the stretcher.
It makes you realise, dont make mistakes. Its so important to be the best at what you do and put in the right preparation. This guy didnt have crampons on. Its like turning up to the track without spikes. Its a no-brainer. What it put into perspective is the fragility of what you do. And certainly when it comes to the track, when youre on the edge physically you value what youre trying to do and youre properly focused.
It is a shocking story that will forever live with Clarke, as will his theology and religious studies degree from the University of Bristol. I studied Zen Buddhism at university. The combination of mountaineering experience, Buddhism and this sport has made me incredibly focused.
Being in that call room, you have to have the ultimate focus. You have to be in a state of Zen and be in a meditative place. If you let anything in, its game over.
Clarke could also have told his team-mates the tale dating back to his childhood when he met the Dalai Lama who blessed me 100 times and hugged me for an hour. But that one does not relate to athletics.
By Friday night Clarke will hope to have a second senior medal to add to the bronze medal he won at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
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Wella Professionals Trendvision SS 2015 Journey of Enlightenment – Video
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Wella Professionals Trendvision SS 2015 Journey of Enlightenment
Join the Wella Professional Creative Team for a #BTS peak on their Journey of Enlightenment!
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Introduction to Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment – Video
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Introduction to Ramtha #39;s School of Enlightenment
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Provocative Enlightenment Presents: Life Without Limits with Peter Calhoun – Video
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Provocative Enlightenment Presents: Life Without Limits with Peter Calhoun
Eldon #39;s Shaman friend, Peter Calhoun, returns to discuss and teach the command over the primal forces of fire and water, Earth and air, together with the abi...
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