Categoria: Tributes

Buddha Cariya ~ the 100th

What does the Buddha mean to people? The title “Buddha” has three meanings. Firstly, it means Buddha images or amulets, for the fool or the untrained. A step higher, the Buddha is a man in history, the Prince Siddhatha Gotama. The third level is the Buddha in its abstract meaning. It is not a person but rather attributes that make a person a Buddha, namely wisdom, compassion and purity. In this light, Buddha is not something remote. Any human being, after cultivating these attributes can become a Buddha. The Buddha himself said that, anyone who sees Dhamma or Paticcasamuppada, sees the Buddha. It means Dhamma is Buddha, and also means that the Buddha is not far from us, not the man who lives 2,500 years ahead of us.

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Bound for bliss

The instructions for a beginner are simple: Feel your breath entering your nostrils; follow the breath to your navel; feel the breath going back out through your nose; think of nothing else. Yet this is a pursuit that precious few mortals can boast to have mastered in one lifetime.

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