4 Widespread Misconceptions About Buddhism
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- 4 Widespread Misconceptions About Buddhism.
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As we’ve noted frequently throughout these podcast episodes, the four noble truths were the Buddha’s preeminent teaching. If you want to understand how his teachings fit together, you have to take the four noble truths as the context, and then see how other teachings fit into that context. This is what appropriate attention-the most useful internal quality leading to awakening-means.
Take, for example, the three perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and not-self. The Buddha taught that these perceptions should be applied to suffering and its cause as a way of fostering dispassion for the objects of clinging and craving, and for the acts of clinging and craving themselves. In this way, these perceptions are aids in carrying out the duties appropriate to the four noble truths: to comprehend suffering, to abandon its cause, to realize its cessation by developing the path. That’s how, in the Buddha’s original teachings, the four noble truths and their duties supply the context for the three perceptions and determine their role in the practice.
However, in the centuries following the Buddha’s total nibbāna, Buddhist scholars began to reinterpret the three perceptions, renaming them the three characteristics. Once these perceptions were renamed, they morphed in two other ways as well. First, they turned into a metaphysical teaching, as the characteristics of what things are: All are devoid of essence because they’re impermanent and, because nothing has any essence, then-assuming that something has to be permanent to qualify as a self-there is no self. Second, because these three characteristics were now metaphysical truths, they became the context within which the four noble truths functioned and were true.
This switch in roles has led to many changes in the way the Buddha’s teachings have been taught and practiced in the centuries ever since. All too often, though, these changes have not been recognized as changes, and have been retroactively attributed to the Buddha himself. Because many of these changes are still influential, it’s good to know what they are, so that whenever you encounter them you can recognize them as distortions of what the Buddha actually taught.
Yes. The Pali word Anicca (Sanskrit word Anithya) means unliking/leaving, and it is a perception. Anicca Lakkhana is a characteristic like disappearing/cancellation. The Pali word Aniyatha means impermanent. Thank you so much.
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There are 84000 sutras expounded by the Buddha.
It is not for us to learn all.
Which ever method that is suitable for your root, focus on one Sutra and dwell in long term study. Surely one will succeed.
If you choose and learn the wrong method, not only there is no benefit, it may also bring you harm.
84000 methods are like medicine for our body.
A healthy person can die after taking the wrong medication.
Likewise a person learn the wrong method will not attain any benefit instead it may be harmed.
Learn Buddhism from a good Teacher is very important, similarly a sick person need accurate prescription from a good doctor.
The cultivation period in any of 84000 methods is very difficult and very long.
Just a metaphor : a worm finding its way our of a bamboo. The worm needs to crawl it's way section by sections of the bamboo all the way to the top to see the light.
It's like practictioners in the world first ascend to heaven. Heaven has 28 levels. The period of cultivation in heaven to exit the Six Realms is infinite kalpas.
After one eradicated attachments one attains Arhatship.
After one eradicated attachment and discrimination one becomes a Bodhisattvas.
After one eradicated attachments, discrimination and wandering thoughts, one become a Buddha.
In the Flower Adornments World of Shakyamuni Buddha, Bodhisattvas take three kalpas to succeed to become a Buddha.
In Western Pure Land, one becomes a Buddha like Amituofo in just one day.
The fastest method and the only method that allows the worm to drill sideway out of the bamboo is the Pure Land Buddhism chanting Amituofo. The Infinite Life Sutra.
This method is called the inconceivable method.
Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏
Who or what goes to Pure Land?
A specific "person"?
What happened to the teaching of anatman?
Nibbana as mentioned in suttas i heard is not a place, if it is a place, it is still bound with impermanence characteristic which is still Dukkha
Learning many suttas is important, to get the apropriate understanding of what Buddha taught.
As Buddha said when he got enlightened:
This Dhamma that I have attained is profound, difficult to see, and difficult to understand, peaceful
and sublime, "unattainable by mere reasoning, subtle, to be experienced by the wise"
The word unattainable means it could not be achieved through understanding only, we need to practise it (experienced by the wise)
@@simsonmails What happened to Buddha's Teachings in India?
Beside the historical sites: the Buddha's birth place and the place where the Buddha attained his enlightenment, Buddha's Teachings is as good as buried.
All the Sutras that was brought into China is unheard of in India today.
There are many Buddhist scholars studying Buddhism, and their sharings are general knowledge about Buddhism.
You don't hear of anyone giving lecture on any of sutra in India.
In China, there were many records of manifestation of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Arhats in the last two thousand years
Mahayana Buddhism in flourishing in China today, and there are many learned Masters and Venerables expounding lectures :
The Avatamsaka Sutra,
Surangama Sutra,
Lotus Sutra,
Diamond Sutra,
Heart Sutra,
Visualization Sutra, and the most popular Sutra now is the supreme Sutra 'The Infinite Life Sutra' etc..
Anyone seriously wants to learn Buddhism, it has to be in China.
All the Sutras that was brought into China from India are well recorded and well translated.
In those days, Buddhism was strictly promoted by the Emperors since the Tang Dynasty until the Qing Dynasty the Empress Dowager Cixi stopped propagating all the good teachings of Loa Tzu, Confucianism and Buddhism.
@@simsonmails Thank you for the kind explanation. But what I am asking is not "Nibbana", but "What goes to the Pure Land?"
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