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[jareckiworld]

Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit — Nibbana in Samsara (oil on canvas, 2016)

[theravadin]

"The word "suchness" describes reality as it is. Concepts and ideas are incapable of expressing reality as it is. Nirvana, the ultimate reality, cannot be described, because it is free of all concepts and ideas. Nirvana is the extinction of all concepts. It is total freedom. Most of our suffering arises from our ideas and concepts. If you are able to free yourself from these concepts, anxiety and fear will disappear. Nirvana, the ultimate reality, or God, is the nature of no-birth and no-death. It is total freedom. We need to touch this reality to leave behind the fear connected with the idea of birth and death."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

[buddhismnow]

Why do you want this Holy Water? By Ajahn Chah

Why do you want this holy water? By Ajahn Chah http://wp.me/pFy3u-3jG

In the beginning we practise with a desire of some kind in mind; we practise on and on, but we don’t attain our desire. But if we continue to practise anyway, we reach a point where we’re practising without ideas of some kind of return; we just practise in order to let go. This is something we must see for ourselves; it’s very deep. Maybe we practise because we want to go to nibbana, but you…

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[yoga-onion]

The Quest for Buddhism (20)

The family of Siddhartha (Buddha)

Sundari Nanda - Beautiful half-sister of Buddha, the most venerable bhikkhuni (nun), Part2 [Part1]

It soon became obvious that Sundari Nanda was not fully focused on her life as a nun. Sundari Nanda's thoughts were mainly directed centred on her own beauty and her popularity with the people, characteristics which were the karma of meritorious actions in past lives. These karmic traits became impediments to Nanda, since she neglected to reinforce them with new actions. She felt guilty that she was not fulfilling the lofty expectations that others had of her, and that she was far from the objective for which so many of the Sakyan royal family had renounced their worldly life. She was certain that the Buddha would censure her, so she evaded him for a long time.

One day, the Buddha requested to let Nanda be called explicitly, and then he addressed her. Since Sundari Nanda was so preoccupied with her physical beauty, the Buddha used his devine powers (Ref) to conjure the vision of a woman more beautiful than Sundari Nanda, who then aged quickly and visibly in front of her own eyes.

As a result, Sundari Nanda could see, in a short time span, what could otherwise only be noticed in humans in a time span of decades: the recession of youth and beauty, the decay, the appearance of aging, such as wrinkles and grey hair. 

This vision affected Sundari Nanda deeply; she was shaken to the core. After having shown Nanda this confronting image, the Buddha could explain the law of impermanence (Skt. Anitya=the impermanence of all things) to her in such a manner that she grasped its truth completely, and thereby attained the supreme bliss of nibbana. She persevered for extended periods with this practice "faithful and courageous day and night" , therefore become as the most revered bhikkhuni (nun).

仏教の探求 (20)

お釈迦さまの家族

孫陀利難陀 (そんだりなんだ、梵: スンダリ・ナンダ) 〜ブッダの美しい異母妹、最も崇高な比丘尼 (尼僧)・その2（その1）

しかし、スンダリ・ナンダが尼僧としての生活に十分に集中していないことは、すぐに明らかになった。スンダリ・ナンダの思考は主に自分の美貌と人望に向けられており、それらは過去世における功徳の業であった。これらのカルマは、新たな行為によって強化することを怠ったために、スンダリ・ナンダの障害となった。釈迦族王家の多くがそうであったように、彼女は世俗を捨てた目的からかけ離れ、周囲の高い期待に応えられないことに罪悪感を抱いていた。スンダリ・ナンダはブッダに叱られるに違いないと思い、長い間、ブッダから遠ざかっていた。

ある日、ブッダは特別に彼女を呼ばせてから、心配そうな彼女に語りかけた。ナンダが自分の美しさばかりに気をとられていたので、ブッダは神通力（参照）を使ってスンダリ・ナンダよりも美しい女性の幻影を見せると、その女性は彼女の目の前でみるみるうちに老けていった。

若さや美しさの後退、衰え、シワや白髪などの老化現象など、人間なら何十年も経たないと気づかないことを、ナンダは短時間で見ることができた。この光景は、スンダリ・ナンダに深い衝撃を与え、心を揺さぶった。

ブッダは、この衝撃的な映像を見せた後、スンダリ・ナンダに無常（むじょう、梵: アニトヤ）の法則 （諸行無常：しょぎょうむじょう＝あらゆるものが無常であること）を説明し、彼女がその真理を完全に理解し、涅槃の至福に達することができるようにした。彼女はこの修行を「昼も夜も忠実かつ勇敢に」長期間続け、最も崇高な比丘尼（尼僧）となったのである。

[ypnhot]

I made another thing. This group didn't really have a name that I could find, but it comes up a lot in the suttas as being things that support the development of various enlightened states of being and wisdom.

Seclusion can be physically secluding yourself to meditate, but also seclusion from sensual desires or unwholesome things, etc.

Dispassion happens when as you develop wisdom and start seeing things through a lens of impermanence and permanence, you start to lose interest in impermanent things like sensual pleasures and existence and rebirth, etc.

Cessation is what happens when you reach the various levels of enlightenment and the fetters are "cut off at the root, made like a palm-tree stump that can come to no further existence in the future." so those beliefs and desires completely cease to be and cannot arise again. (the symbol is based on a palm tree root structure)

Relinquishment is when you are able to fully let go of things, truly freeing you from them.

[starseedsrise]

"In the space of No-Mind, truth descends like light." - Osho

[tracetheradianceback]

If you look close enough at any color screen, it becomes apparent that all of the images are composed of tiny dots, colored blue, red, and green. The complex images that appear to us on the screen are made of varying degrees of illumination of patterns of these dots. They are not what they seem. We know this but we’re fine with it because the images appear anyway.

When we look at our experience and ourselves closely enough, especially through meditation, we find the same thing. We find that everything comes through channels of experience: seeing, hearing, feeling. When we look at those with the microscope of attention, we see that they are composed of tiny elements that are constantly changing. Everything we experience, including our own bodies and minds, are like a kaleidoscope of millions of tiny sensations that, when looked on the large scale, seem like a substantial and separate things. When we watch this closely and repeatedly, it creates a lasting insight that the separate self (or “ego”), never existed to begin with. Buddhists call this “anatta”, not-self. The flip side is that everything else is made of the same stuff. There’s no difference between self and world. That’s called oneness.  There’s no need to get rid of something that was never there to begin with. All we need to do is to observe and see through the illusion. The insight grows over time and eventually becomes permanent. But the beauty of it is that even though we know it’s an illusion, we can experience all of that beauty nonetheless.

[shaolinmeditator]

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