Why Buddhists Seek Refuge
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2024
- Why Buddhists Seek Refuge.
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The first two steps in the process of becoming a lay disciple of the Buddha are the going for refuge (sarana gamana) and the undertaking of the five precepts (pañca-sila samadana). By the former step a person makes the commitment to accept the Triple Gem - the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha - as the guiding ideals of his life, by the latter he expresses his determination to bring his actions into harmony with these ideals through right conduct. The following two tracts were written for the purpose of giving a clear and concise explanation of these two steps. Though they are intended principally for those who have newly embraced the Buddha's teaching they will probably be found useful as well by long-term traditional Buddhists wanting to understand the meaning of practices with which they are already familiar and also by those who want to know what becoming a Buddhist involves.
In order to keep our treatment compact, and to avoid the intimidating format of a scholastic treatise, references to source material in the tracts themselves have been kept to a minimum. Thus we here indicate the sources upon which our account has drawn. Going for Refuge is based primarily upon the standard commentarial passage on the topic, found with only minor variations in the Khuddakapatha Atthakatha (Paramatthajotika), the Digha Nikaya Atthakatha (Sumangalavilasini), and the Majjhima Nikaya Atthakatha (Papañcasudani).
Going for Refuge
Chapter 1. The Reasons For Taking Refuge.
Chapter 2. The Dangers Pertaining To The Present Life.
Chapter 3. The Dangers Pertaining To Future Lives.
Chapter 4. The Dangers Pertaining To The General Course Of Existence.
Chapter 5. The Existence of a Refuge
We take refuge because Lord Buddha is a TRUE refuge. There is none higher or more powerful, period.
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I am a Srilankan and a srtong Buddhist. I admire your attempt and commitment to convince others about Buddhism and The Lord Buddha but the pronunciation of your Pali words are not correct.
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Well wishing is recommended in Buddhism. 🙏🧡
Shakyamuni Buddha taught us to return from confusion, delusions, erroneous thoughts, eradicate impurities and rely only upon the awakening of our self-nature.
The Buddha did not tel us to blindly follow him but rather to be dauntless independent individual and to find the truth by ourselves.
In summary, taking refuge in the Buddha means being awakened and not deluded.
Taking refuge in the Dharma means having proper viewpoints.
Taking refuge in the Sangha means being pure and not polluted.
These are the Triple Jewels Self-nature that the Buddha taught us to practice.
🙏🙏🙏Amituofo
Protection is within one's self, and it's based on respecting others in spite of our differences.
In ancient times, everyone understood the meaning of the Triple Jewels.
Today however, many people misunderstand the meaning.
When they hear the word "Buddha" they think of the image.
When they hear the word"Dharma ", they think of the sutra.
When they hear the word" Sangha " they think of monks and nun.
The Sixth Patriach of Zen, Master Hui Neng, foresaw the possibility that people in the future would misinterpret the meaning of the Triple Jewels.
Therefore, whenever he taught he would not use the words Buddha, Dharma or Sangha.
Instead, he used enlightenment, proper understanding and purity.
These terms are more easily understood and less subject to misunderstanding.
They are called the Triple Jewels of Self-nature, which is the true principle for us to follow.
If we become misled here and follow an individual master, we will remain misled from now on.
If that happens, how can we achieve any real attainment?
🙏🙏🙏Amituofo
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Well wishing (Kusala-Chanda) is not a like or a love at the moment we wish something. Therefore, well wishing doesn't contain an attachment in that moment even if it can have indirect relationships to attachments. The pure wish to attain Nibbana is a skillful wish (Kusala-Chanda). Fully enlightened people can't love, hate, like, and dislike. Therefore, Buddhists should try to use equanimity to make responses even if someone expects a like or a dislike. Also, the word Metta is not love. The correct name for Metta Bhavana is empathy meditation. We need good scholars.
Metta or maitri is friendliness or inclusiveness. Karuna is empathy based on virtue, patience, forbearance, concern to avoid unwholesome actions and concern to avoid the unpleasant consequences from such actions.
@@festechew6468, friendliness is like an attachment. The Metta of a mother or a brahma is an empathy. Karuna is kindness.
@@smlanka4u For Mind Only dharma of noble beings, taught by Tathagata Buddha, the first noble mind on the path of noble beings is maitri, the mind of friendliness, the foundation for the other three noble qualities of karuna, the mind of empathy, of mudita, the mind of joy in cherishing others and of upeksha, the mind of equanimity or non-judgmentality.
Friendliness is a noble quality of the mind, it is not an attachment which is a desire of the aggregate of feeling, as it arises out of the wisdom realizing the emptiness of phenomena.
@@festechew6468, Metta is an ultimate-meaningul mental factor, and it should have a precise meaning like empathy. Friendliness can emerge from empathy or many other reasons, and it is like a physical output. The 52 mental factors have mental characteristics.
Empathy emerges from friendliness. One needs to be friendly first to have empathy. This is the path of the noble beings.