"The knowing and thinking mind (nāma) is considered as a soul or self. Even among Buddhists those who are not learned have this kind of misconception. The soul of a dead person is wrongly believed to have left the body to reside in another. It is said to be the same soul that has passed on to the new existence and stays in the womb of the mother. This is how people generally presume the arising consciousness as a self, which is wrongly believed as existing dependent on the material body. In fact, according to the Buddha’s teaching there is no such thing as a self, soul, or a living being. There is only a continuous process of mind and matter arising and disappearing, the physical and mental elements being in a state of continual flux, according to circumstances."
Thursday, September 29, 2016
First Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference to be held in Seoul, South Korea
The Buddhist Channel, Sept 26, 2016Seoul, South Korea -- The first Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference co-hosted by Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) and Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE) will be a single whole day event on September 30, 2016 and will be held at Hotel Skypark Kingstown, Dongdaemun in Seoul, South Korea immediately after the 28th World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference in the same city.  The keynote speaker will be a well-known Buddhist monk and animal advocate Venerable Master Hai Tao from Taiwan and he will be speaking on Compassion for All Beings. Other speakers include a Sri Lankan Buddhist veterinarian Dr. Chamith Nanayakkara who with his team have generously given free treatment to more than 50,000 animals and DVA President, Bob Isaacson who will speak on the Buddha's Teachings on Sentient Beings and How We Can Live Kinder. |
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Buddhist Answers 034 : What does Buddhism teach when we are confronted with difficult problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kYLrQMngso
Published on Oct 3, 2014
Venerable Pasura Dhantamano was born in Thailand and has over 25 years of meditation experience. He studied a master’s degree in International Relations. He is the chief of international relations division, Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Thailand, an organization dedicated to spreading world peace through inner peace.
On Ignorance of the Buddha’s Power and Compassion
Buddhistdoor Global | 2016-09-15
From nasa.gov
Master Tanluan, an eminent Pure Land patriarch from the 6th century CE, wrote the Commentary on the Treatise of Rebirth. He utilized and integrated many profound concepts to form a solid theoretical foundation for Pure Land Buddhism. When he explained the concept of “praising” the second of the Five Gates of Amitabha-invocation* (which is actually the teaching of name-recitation), he wrote:
Goenkaji on dealing with fear and worry
"Whenever you feel anxious and fearful just observe it – ‘Oh fear has arisen, now let me watch what sensations it brings’. At that time the sensations that arise will be linked to and filled with fear. Observe that. A part of the mind will be rolling in that fear, yet another part will be aware of sensations.
Maybe just 5% of the mind will be aware, the remaining 95% will be rolling
in fear, yet that 5% is powerful enough to cut the roots of the fear.
in fear, yet that 5% is powerful enough to cut the roots of the fear.
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