How lucky we are to have such a great teacher as the Ven. Guan Chen. I've never heard any of his talks before, by I feel so lucky to have come across this. It is an intelligent and extremely easy to comprehend explanation. Thank you so much for your teaching. I appreciate this so much. Gassho.
Prajna Paramita is a condensed of all Buddhas teaching. If it is easy to comprehend as you say, everyone is ALREADY a buddha, meaning you will also attain those super natural power i.e. walk on water or walk one inch above the ground so you wont kill those tiny2 creatures that you cant see with naked eyes; etc.. You can comprehend through intellectual understanding only, you reach the mundane truth, superficial truth, but the ultimate truth is still a long way journey through millions kalpa of rebirth perhaps.
You are a blessing Venerable Guan Cheng. Your knowledge of Buddhism unbelievable when you talk with them rolls out of your mouth I guess I should say prana. The path to enlightenment is different for all and is always changing. Anyone can achieve enlightenment as long as you have the will. Ohm mani padme hum. I chant it daily. Peace and love...
You have changed my life. I am new to Buddhism. I have learned seven mantra so far. I need teaches of the ancient texts and thanks to you I have found some.
Jnana i supreme wisdom, wisdom that is transmited or perceived beyond consciousness and human knowledge. I bow at the lotus feet of the Buddha. I believe his teachings are so applicable in every way in everyone's life. Self reliance and self responsibility with boddhichitta. May all our words, thoughts and action be of benefit to all sentient beings. May all beings be happy. Thank you for this wonderful lecture.
Thank you master Ven Guan Chen , i feel very lucky that i can follow your teaching . I feel the buddha teaching in everyday life , and try to pursue wisdom with empathy and emptiness for the world , shall my actions be selfless and my words devoid so that they don"t affect wrongly my entourage.
Infinite gratitude to encounter this lecture on Heart Sutra. its true, if you sincerely want to learn, a teacher will appear. Infinite gratitude to Ven. Guan Chen 🙏
Excellent explanation. I especially liked the explanation of right and wrong motive...very clear, thank you very much. May all of your good wishes come true!
I’m so grateful to understand and learn more about Heart Sutra. What a treasure this teacher and to spread the highet wisdom to make others happier and healthier is on of highest darma services. Thank you from my heart and soul
Heart Sutra used in this video lecture by Ven. Guan Cheng： The Heart Sutra (Prajna-paramita-hrdaya-sutra) Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, when practicing the profound Prajna-paramita, perceived that the five skandhas are empty, and thereby became free from all suffering. O Sariputra, form is none other than emptiness; emptiness is none different than form. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. The same is true with perception, conception, volition, and consciousness. O Sariputra, all dharmas are characterized by dependence upon causation. They are neither created nor do they perish, neither defiled nor immaculate, neither increasing nor decreasing. Therefore in emptiness there is no form, no perception, no conception, no volition, no consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or object of mind; no realm of the eyes… up to no realm of consciousness; No ignorance, nor its extinction…up to no old-age and death, nor their extinction. There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no extinction, no path, no wisdom and also no attainment. Because there is no object to be obtained. The bodhisattvas, through practicing Prajna-paramita, have no obstacles in mind. Having no obstacles, they overcome fear, liberating themselves forever from delusions, ultimately realizing Nirvana. All Buddhas of the past, present, and future, relying on Prajna-paramita, attain Anuttara-samyaksambodhi. Therefore one should know that Prajna-paramita is the great, supernatural mantra, the great, bright, unsurpassed and unequalled mantra, the destroyer of all suffering, the truth. A mantra of Prajna-paramita should therefore be proclaimed. This is the mantra: Gate Gate Paragate Parasamagate Bodhi Svaha! With deepest gratitude to Ven. Guan Cheng for the compassion and effort in explaining the profound meaning of the Heart Sutra in his lecture. 阿彌陀佛！ Transfer of merts: 願以此功德，普及於一切，我等與眾生，皆共成佛道 Yuàn yǐ cǐ gōngdé, pǔjí yú yīqiè, wǒ děng yǔ zhòngshēng, jiē gòng chéng fó dào
Diamond sutra's message is emptiness . It is very difficult to understand . Thank you Venerable Guan Cheng for your compassion to convey the message of Diamond Sutra.
I am grateful for your sharing all the Dharma teachings online. It is so helpful that guides me through into Buddha’s in-depth teaching, allow me training, watching my mind and practicing my thoughts. I even come up with a plan to travel with my family next year from Australia to Vancouver Canada to attend your teachings at the temple. I had a look online your temple in Richmond Canada, however, I am puzzled that the temple seems quite materialistic in a way the luxurious buildings, gold statues,…and all that, didn’t Buddha teach us no form, no I, everything is an illusion, should not be attached to a thing…? I still have good faith in the teachings, just wondering why?
Nadia, If you visit the temple.. do you like to visit a run down diry temple, no maintenance up keeps? There.are also wealthy buddhists that love to visit *nicely kept temple* ; it is a faścade only. What you describe about no form, no I, etc is for your INNER SELF development.. what you see through your eyes, mind-eyes are illusion, as such it should never bother you.. consider it as a tool, an object lesson only. I understand what you meant. I had same question long long time ago.
Excellent, I live in Singapore and there are a lot of Chinese Buddhists. I always hear the sutras being chanted at void deck funerals but have no idea what they're saying (coming from a non Buddhist background, plus my Mandarin is also horrendous). So I'm learning what the Heart Sutra is about.
So much to learn So little time yet we fail to realize the nature of impermanence I'm feeling very grateful that I found this video on RUclips The explanation and the depth of knowledge explained in this video is soo much detailed yet simple to understand May this video reach more people so that they can also attained this knowledge on the path to enlightenment Om ah hung Baza guru padma siddi hung
very grateful to come across with your teaching on youtube, in Cantonese and English, that helps me a lot to understand and to share this wisdom with others. Thank you very much. 非常 感恩
Ven. Bodhisatva Bodhi Dharma says "Pragya Parmita" is not wisdom bcoz perfect wisdom is gone, gone beyond completely beyond categories of space and time being and non being." Who has gone beyond or lost the vision, visionary and visions..! दृष्टा, दृष्टि, और दृष्य... का समाप्त होना..! This is a great realisation.. to be a Bodhisatva..!
No! Understanding without Understanding. There is neither conception nor misconception. There is nothing to understand or misunderstanding. Neither THIS nor THAT or neither both.
The most wise in this video is the guy in the kitchen , banging with spoon to signal dinner is getting cold while the maser keeps on chanting. Because all knowledge begins and ends with : ...'eat your dinner when it's warm' and;'sleep when tired' .
Ohm namo dewa hri. Namo guru devaya. Thanks for lovely teaching. With due respect (out of three Bhddhas born in Nepal) Sakyamuni Buddha was born in Lumbini Nepal not in India as most mistakes. Thanks
In our tradition is learning from the cradle to the grave.learn even if you need to go to China,Self discipline is the hardest work ,one can do .We can not change others because they are out of our control.
To make it easy for everyone I would like to summarise what Heart Sutra is about: The whole Sutra means "Life is just a dream". All things or events that we see in our dream, none of those are real. They are just illusions. When you are awake you will realise that everything appears in your dream is simply emptiness. Our samsara world does not exist. Nothing actually happens in the samsara world. Just like nothing really happens in our dream. The Heart Sutra keeps reminding us not to be fooled by the illusions. Our heart can't be in peace if we treat illusions as real things.
During my life I would make an attempt at an activity and it never would work out so not today I understand emptiness and I have concluded that everything I have attempted was really an empty effort with empty results. I do not try anything anymore. They do not seek results anymore. I do not seek anymore. What I see there's a lot of people throwing themselves cat things but they never get just like I was doing.
It sounded like a gibberish, but you have to understand the concept of 5 skandhas and emptiness. The idea of emptiness most probably means interdependence.
Refer to the concept : Sunyata. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā It is a core concept of Buddhism. Heart sutra is core sutra of Mahayana school. The Theravadas does not approve the authority of Heart sutra: myths concerning avaloki Bodhisattva. The elders simply contested that the event mentioned in the sutra did not take place. However, sunyata itself is core concept of Theravada school as well. Just the Theravada monks do not chat heart sutra.
Saya bukan Budha tetapi saya diminta untuk menyayikannya seperti mantra praja yg lain ada terapi susah sekali menghaoalnya ingat ujungnya saja Gate-gate paragate parasamgate.... dan saya di minta dari awal
Please read the entire posting before sending me less than positive remarks. Very disappointing, that people suggests a hell. Negative energy does not exist. Evil is not the opposite of good, it is the absence of it. Darkness is not the opposite of light, it is the absence of it. Same is for sound, electricity, weight, touch, heat etc etc. The universe did not exist at absolute zero (that temperature where there is absolutely no heat) The universe was creating heat as it came into being. Buddha states not to believe anything that makes no sense. Hell makes no sense. Anyone that has had a spiritual experience never experience hell. The only hell that there can be is an absence of Nirvana. We experience that in this world that we live in now. There is no punishment, with cause and effect, we punish ourselves, by abhorrent behavior, and thoughts. I am not saying that you cannot experience suffering. We cause our suffering, and we can stop it. No one else can. Not Zoroaster, not the Phoenix, not Abraham, not the Buddha, not Jesus, nor Moses, not Mohammed, not Ghandi, YOU have to do the work yourself. If you expect someone to do your work for you, then they, not you will receive the benefit. Your selfishness causes you to suffer. If warmth is only the presence of heat, cold feels like a force, but it is paradoxically only the absence of heat. I know that my wording is not all that coherent. I will be editing this statement because to get it accurate, and perfectly understandable, ("so clear that Ray Charles could see it" -Robert Howell) because i can see my explanation is lacking, and needs refinement. The basic function of the universe (not its purpose) is a subject, object relationship of ebb, and flow. High pressure always gravitates to a lower pressure. Like a bleeding hemorrhoid ha ha . "it is fortunate for governments that the people they administer do not think" -Adolf Hitler
While I understand where you're coming from, and agree to some extent, it must be pointed out that the Buddha teaches the existence of hell within the Pali Suttas. Do regard this as metaphor? Or do you not regard those suttas as canonical? Just curious.
Be aware that the Buddha did not himself write most of the Sutta's (Sutra's). Men, some of them may not be translated properly, or understood correctly. It is better to seek guidance exactly as the Buddha did. Your internal Buddha. If we follow someone elses teachings we will be prone to misinterpret, simply because it is their experience, not our own. Meditate ! Repent for your interferences ! Resolve not to interfere again ! Meditate, be in love! Repeat
+Kalis Agea My interpretation of "hell" is not a physical place or anything like that, it's our own perpetuation of suffering, living in our suffering, and not knowing how we can escape it. Through the teachings, we can find our way out of suffering. Keep in mind, this is just my own perception of hell.
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Venerable your Dharma talks are master pieces I hope you never delete them from youtube.
How lucky we are to have such a great teacher as the Ven. Guan Chen. I've never heard any of his talks before, by I feel so lucky to have come across this. It is an intelligent and extremely easy to comprehend explanation. Thank you so much for your teaching. I appreciate this so much. Gassho.
Me too. First time listening to Venerable.
Prajna Paramita is a condensed of all Buddhas teaching.
If it is easy to comprehend as you say, everyone is ALREADY a buddha, meaning you will also attain those super natural power i.e. walk on water or walk one inch above the ground so you wont kill those tiny2 creatures that you cant see with naked eyes; etc..
You can comprehend through intellectual understanding only, you reach the mundane truth, superficial truth, but the ultimate truth is still a long way journey through millions kalpa of rebirth perhaps.
You are a blessing Venerable Guan Cheng. Your knowledge of Buddhism unbelievable when you talk with them rolls out of your mouth I guess I should say prana. The path to enlightenment is different for all and is always changing. Anyone can achieve enlightenment as long as you have the will. Ohm mani padme hum. I chant it daily. Peace and love...
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I wish to thank you for making this available on RUclips 🙏🏽. Infinite gratitude.
You have changed my life. I am new to Buddhism. I have learned seven mantra so far. I need teaches of the ancient texts and thanks to you I have found some.
Eternally grateful to Ven XuanZhang. And thank you Ven GuanCheng for your valuable teaching. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Jnana i supreme wisdom, wisdom that is transmited or perceived beyond consciousness and human knowledge. I bow at the lotus feet of the Buddha. I believe his teachings are so applicable in every way in everyone's life. Self reliance and self responsibility with boddhichitta. May all our words, thoughts and action be of benefit to all sentient beings. May all beings be happy. Thank you for this wonderful lecture.
Thank you master Ven Guan Chen , i feel very lucky that i can follow your teaching . I feel the buddha teaching in everyday life , and try to pursue wisdom with empathy and emptiness for the world , shall my actions be selfless and my words devoid so that they don"t affect wrongly my entourage.
Infinite gratitude to encounter this lecture on Heart Sutra. its true, if you sincerely want to learn, a teacher will appear. Infinite gratitude to Ven. Guan Chen 🙏
Amitabha ! Dear Master Thank you sooo much to teaching sooo awesome 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐💐💐👍👍👍👍👍
Great Thanks Ven Guan Cheng clearly explained the discourses on Heart Sutra Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you master for explaining the heart sutra.
Namo amitoufo 🙏venerable. I hope this series is as good as the diamond 💎 sutra
Excellent explanation. I especially liked the explanation of right and wrong motive...very clear, thank you very much. May all of your good wishes come true!
I’m so grateful to understand and learn more about Heart Sutra. What a treasure this teacher and to spread the highet wisdom to make others happier and healthier is on of highest darma services. Thank you from my heart and soul
Thank you venerable guan chen! I learned that its important to control our mind. I will work towards doing it 👍
Thanks for watching'; you can do it!
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Thank you, Venerable Teacher.
Heart Sutra used in this video lecture by Ven. Guan Cheng：
The Heart Sutra (Prajna-paramita-hrdaya-sutra)
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, when practicing the profound Prajna-paramita, perceived that the five skandhas are empty, and thereby became free from all suffering.
O Sariputra, form is none other than emptiness; emptiness is none different than form. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. The same is true with perception, conception, volition, and consciousness.
O Sariputra, all dharmas are characterized by dependence upon causation. They are neither created nor do they perish, neither defiled nor immaculate, neither increasing nor decreasing.
Therefore in emptiness there is no form, no perception, no conception, no volition, no consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or object of mind; no realm of the eyes… up to no realm of consciousness;
No ignorance, nor its extinction…up to no old-age and death, nor their extinction. There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no extinction, no path, no wisdom and also no attainment. Because there is no object to be obtained.
The bodhisattvas, through practicing Prajna-paramita, have no obstacles in mind. Having no obstacles, they overcome fear, liberating themselves forever from delusions, ultimately realizing Nirvana. All Buddhas of the past, present, and future, relying on Prajna-paramita, attain Anuttara-samyaksambodhi.
Therefore one should know that Prajna-paramita is the great, supernatural mantra, the great, bright, unsurpassed and unequalled mantra, the destroyer of all suffering, the truth. A mantra of Prajna-paramita should therefore be proclaimed. This is the mantra:
Gate Gate Paragate
Parasamagate
Bodhi Svaha!
With deepest gratitude to Ven. Guan Cheng for the compassion and effort in explaining the profound meaning of the Heart Sutra in his lecture. 阿彌陀佛！
Transfer of merts:
願以此功德，普及於一切，我等與眾生，皆共成佛道
Yuàn yǐ cǐ gōngdé, pǔjí yú yīqiè, wǒ děng yǔ zhòngshēng, jiē gòng chéng fó dào
Thank you so much!
Diamond sutra's message is emptiness . It is very difficult to understand . Thank you Venerable Guan Cheng for your compassion to convey the message of Diamond Sutra.
I am grateful for your sharing all the Dharma teachings online. It is so helpful that guides me through into Buddha’s in-depth teaching, allow me training, watching my mind and practicing my thoughts. I even come up with a plan to travel with my family next year from Australia to Vancouver Canada to attend your teachings at the temple. I had a look online your temple in Richmond Canada, however, I am puzzled that the temple seems quite materialistic in a way the luxurious buildings, gold statues,…and all that, didn’t Buddha teach us no form, no I, everything is an illusion, should not be attached to a thing…? I still have good faith in the teachings, just wondering why?
Nadia,
If you visit the temple.. do you like to visit a run down diry temple, no maintenance up keeps? There.are also wealthy buddhists that love to visit *nicely kept temple* ; it is a faścade only. What you describe about no form, no I, etc is for your INNER SELF development.. what you see through your eyes, mind-eyes are illusion, as such it should never bother you.. consider it as a tool, an object lesson only. I understand what you meant. I had same question long long time ago.
Excellent, I live in Singapore and there are a lot of Chinese Buddhists. I always hear the sutras being chanted at void deck funerals but have no idea what they're saying (coming from a non Buddhist background, plus my Mandarin is also horrendous). So I'm learning what the Heart Sutra is about.
Been waiting for this. Thank You!
marvellous teaching.
Amitufu May all living beings find there Buddha nature 🙏 Heart Sutra Buddha's gift to the world
So much to learn
So little time yet we fail to realize the nature of impermanence
I'm feeling very grateful that I found this video on RUclips
The explanation and the depth of knowledge explained in this video is soo much detailed yet simple to understand
May this video reach more people so that they can also attained this knowledge on the path to enlightenment
Om ah hung Baza guru padma siddi hung
very grateful to come across with your teaching on youtube, in Cantonese and English, that helps me a lot to understand and to share this wisdom with others. Thank you very much.
非常 感恩
Hartelijk bedankt boot uw uitleging.
Ven. Bodhisatva Bodhi Dharma says "Pragya Parmita" is not wisdom bcoz perfect wisdom is gone, gone beyond completely beyond categories of space and time being and non being." Who has gone beyond or lost the vision, visionary and visions..! दृष्टा, दृष्टि, और दृष्य... का समाप्त होना..!
This is a great realisation.. to be a Bodhisatva..!
So great… easy to understand
南无阿弥陀佛🙏🏻🙏🏻
What a beautiful monk ❤️
Heart Sutra: Understanding without misconceptions
No! Understanding without Understanding. There is neither conception nor misconception. There is nothing to understand or misunderstanding. Neither THIS nor THAT or neither both.
excellent work. very clearly explained.
Venerable. Thanks for sharing and teaching. i want to learn more.
I wish he will be in New York for a lecture.
The most wise in this video is the guy in the kitchen , banging with spoon to signal dinner is getting cold while the maser keeps on chanting. Because all knowledge begins and ends with : ...'eat your dinner when it's warm' and;'sleep when tired' .
I am so lucky to hear the heart sutra. May all the human beings get nirvana through the Buddha's blessings. Thank you very much.
Ohm namo dewa hri. Namo guru devaya. Thanks for lovely teaching. With due respect (out of three Bhddhas born in Nepal) Sakyamuni Buddha was born in Lumbini Nepal not in India as most mistakes. Thanks
In our tradition is learning from the cradle to the grave.learn even if you need to go to China,Self discipline is the hardest work ,one can do .We can not change others because they are out of our control.
Sadhu sadhu sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Venerable Guan Cheng
Thank You!
阿弥陀佛
Thank you.
Hi, where can I get more teachings from this great teacher?
To make it easy for everyone I would like to summarise what Heart Sutra is about:
The whole Sutra means "Life is just a dream". All things or events that we see in our dream, none of those are real. They are just illusions. When you are awake you will realise that everything appears in your dream is simply emptiness. Our samsara world does not exist. Nothing actually happens in the samsara world. Just like nothing really happens in our dream. The Heart Sutra keeps reminding us not to be fooled by the illusions. Our heart can't be in peace if we treat illusions as real things.
Thank You
Great banthe very great
Most Digestable.
During my life I would make an attempt at an activity and it never would work out so not today I understand emptiness and I have concluded that everything I have attempted was really an empty effort with empty results. I do not try anything anymore. They do not seek results anymore. I do not seek anymore. What I see there's a lot of people throwing themselves cat things but they never get just like I was doing.
I wasn't told of how to pray or chant the Buddhist prayers. I was an English educated without Chinese background.
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ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! 💖💮🌹💐🌸🏵🌸💐💖
Saron Williams diamond Sutra is life
It sounded like a gibberish, but you have to understand the concept of 5 skandhas and emptiness. The idea of emptiness most probably means interdependence.
丹皓然说阿弥陀佛
Thank you , thank you
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sadhu sadhu sadhu ( from Bangladesh)
Thank you very much. Wonderful teaching::))
Which heart sutra is this....I like this version
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Refer to the concept : Sunyata. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā
It is a core concept of Buddhism.
Heart sutra is core sutra of Mahayana school.
The Theravadas does not approve the authority of Heart sutra: myths concerning avaloki Bodhisattva. The elders simply contested that the event mentioned in the sutra did not take place.
However, sunyata itself is core concept of Theravada school as well. Just the Theravada monks do not chat heart sutra.
SadhuSadhu sadhu
Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu..excellent.
I think the correct pronounciation of Prajna is "Pradnya". CMIIW
How could I post my questions to Ven?
Saya bukan Budha tetapi saya diminta untuk menyayikannya seperti mantra praja yg lain ada terapi susah sekali menghaoalnya ingat ujungnya saja Gate-gate paragate parasamgate.... dan saya di minta dari awal
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Thank you🙏🙏🙏
amitofuo...
Initially I In Pali
Sathu sathu sathu
Amitofu
Sanskrit and Pali
Would like translate into hind
SABBE DHAMMA ANATTA.
good is not good , bad is not bad, right is not right, wrong is not wrong, no sense is emptiness, emptiness is not emptiness,
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The body of today of which one is living with is of the past. This body belongs to the past and is not yours.
Please read the entire posting before sending me less than positive remarks.
Very disappointing, that people suggests a hell. Negative energy does not exist. Evil is not the opposite of good, it is the absence of it. Darkness is not the opposite of light, it is the absence of it. Same is for sound, electricity, weight, touch, heat etc etc. The universe did not exist at absolute zero (that temperature where there is absolutely no heat) The universe was creating heat as it came into being.
Buddha states not to believe anything that makes no sense. Hell makes no sense. Anyone that has had a spiritual experience never experience hell. The only hell that there can be is an absence of Nirvana. We experience that in this world that we live in now. There is no punishment, with cause and effect, we punish ourselves, by abhorrent behavior, and thoughts. I am not saying that you cannot experience suffering. We cause our suffering, and we can stop it. No one else can. Not Zoroaster, not the Phoenix, not Abraham, not the Buddha, not Jesus, nor Moses, not Mohammed, not Ghandi, YOU have to do the work yourself. If you expect someone to do your work for you, then they, not you will receive the benefit. Your selfishness causes you to suffer. If warmth is only the presence of heat, cold feels like a force, but it is paradoxically only the absence of heat.
I know that my wording is not all that coherent. I will be editing this statement because to get it accurate, and perfectly understandable, ("so clear that Ray Charles could see it" -Robert Howell) because i can see my explanation is lacking, and needs refinement.
The basic function of the universe (not its purpose) is a subject, object relationship of ebb, and flow. High pressure always gravitates to a lower pressure. Like a bleeding hemorrhoid ha ha
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"it is fortunate for governments that the people they administer do not think" -Adolf Hitler
Thank you for that thought. You made some very good points. "Everything comes from within." =)
While I understand where you're coming from, and agree to some extent, it must be pointed out that the Buddha teaches the existence of hell within the Pali Suttas. Do regard this as metaphor? Or do you not regard those suttas as canonical? Just curious.
Be aware that the Buddha did not himself write most of the Sutta's (Sutra's). Men, some of them may not be translated properly, or understood correctly. It is better to seek guidance exactly as the Buddha did. Your internal Buddha. If we follow someone elses teachings we will be prone to misinterpret, simply because it is their experience, not our own. Meditate ! Repent for your interferences ! Resolve not to interfere again ! Meditate, be in love! Repeat
+Kalis Agea My interpretation of "hell" is not a physical place or anything like that, it's our own perpetuation of suffering, living in our suffering, and not knowing how we can escape it. Through the teachings, we can find our way out of suffering. Keep in mind, this is just my own perception of hell.
Hell is Rebirth.
Where is the beef...?
Pali language was spoken during Buddha's time not Sanskrit..
Sanskrit was spoken by elites of India.Pali is a local language in a region around Magadha.lay person of magadha and kosala spoke pali.
my suffering: sexual depravity
Awareness of inner peace can help you
Thank you.
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