Ven Dr K Sri Dhammananda, you are not with us here today but the Buddha dhamma that you taught us will forever be with us. Thank you very much for such a wonderful talk. May all our good-deeds gathered during our lives also help you to attain Nirvana. Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu..
Spirituality and connection it the idea. Religion has caused more harm than good. Death to those who believed differently. My version if God is different or the only one or way. Death and condemnation. People tortured and slowly burnt at stake in cases. The wood was wetted around the edges to make the person suffer and burn much longer. People stretched slowly and torn apart. Christianity in history has the most torture chambers of all. No longer today. Of course nothing to do with Jesus. To put all your sins on someone else never works. A blood atonement solves nothing. Unless you change within and your way of thinking nothing will change. If course millions died for political reasons nothing to do with religion or faith. However religion and faith has added to the death toll. Obviously something has gone wrong. Seems if people accept a more natural explanation then much of this and many questions go away. The more we learn and loose ignorance so much can be made better. Religion is not the answer. Atheism is not the answer as well. That really says nothing. We know love and compassion brings people together and people work better together and more problems can get solved. Most religion has caused death and fear. Only now torture chambers are gone. All done away with through knowledge and getting rid of ignorance. Amazing scientific discoveries have gotten rid of these things. Still some problems but much better now. Let's all work together to make the world a better place. Take care from atheist/agnostic Lee.
Those who believe in creator God. Are Simple minded perdon. Not confident person. Not doing enough good karma deeds to understand Buddhas teaching... Is ok. Be good be kind ... In life to come, if you would accumulated enough kindness deeds, you will change your mind... 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Um, I believe in a Creator God, and Im FAR from "simple" minded. In fact, saying that sounds very ignorant especially to those who do believe and worship God/s Are Hindus "simple" minded for believing in God? Bahai's? What about those who believe in multiple gods?? Having a belief or no belief in God doesn't mean you need "confidence" because confidence is something that comes naturally whatever the confidence comes from God or not. I however need confidence from God from time to time because as a mere human with limitations, we can't do EVERYTHING ourselves because we are not gods. See what Im saying?
The Brahma - Creator, Vishnu - Protector and Shiva - Destroyer, correspond to Buddhist observed phenomena of the universe ; arising, maintaining and decaying, finally void which later arising again thus a never ending cycle.
Anatole France the famous French writer once said “ Man is born. He lived and he died. This is the history of mankind."... This gives a truer picture than most books written on man’s history. However, there is a deeper Truth of the history of the so called ‘man.’ A mass of energy manifests in a womb. After seventy seven days another form of energy gets linked to what remained formerly as pure physical energy. From then onwards, a combined mass of energy develops inside the womb. Organs like the eye, the ear, nose are gradually formed in the fetus. It gets nourishment from the mother and after nine or ten months an entity is born. ( For convenience of expression we call this combined mass of energy ‘The entity’) Whereas the organs were sealed inside the womb, after birth the tiny organs are exposed to the external world. For the first three months,the eyes see forms, the ear hears sounds etc. But it does not discriminate between forms or sounds. After three months, the entity starts reacting to external forms and sounds as the pabhassara citta (pure luminous mind) starts fading away. He sees a particular ‘pattern of form’ moving around him and also hears a pattern of sound called ‘Ma’ . At one stage he links up the ‘form pattern’ to the sound pattern and calls it “ Ma”. The second energy called the ‘mind’ has by now got activated. From then on, the entity starts acquiring more and more impressions from the external world he sees. The society around it attributes ‘words’ to describe such impressions. He takes these words as real and holds on to them through its lifetime. Around this time another landmark event takes place in the moving history of the entity. While the child plays with brothers or sisters, when one of them tries to grab a toy, he says it is ‘My toy’ “ Ego” is born. ‘Me’ is born. My mother is born. ‘ ‘My world’ and ‘your world’ is born. While he gets on with ‘his world’, Nature provides air in the form of inward breath followed by outward breath for him to sustain life because he is a part of Nature. In the meantime, parents attribute a ‘name’ say John or Smith and this consolidates the illusion of ‘my world’. He grows up and goes about with the newly acquired impressions and words. By this time he has built up ‘ my family’ ‘my town’, ‘my country’ ‘my race’, ’my religion’. He fights fiercely for these non existent phenomena. He plays varied roles in the drama of life, what the society calls doctors, accountants, technicians, artisans etc. He could be a king, a beggar but still goes through the same process, caught up in the incessant flow of time, living and dying every moment. He is by now a complete slave of the five senses which hides the Truth of flowing energy and portray a totally false picture of solidity to keep him bound hand and foot to the illusory world. He runs after the mirage of fame , glory and happiness, not realizing for a moment that he is chasing shadows. He goes about with the mantle that “ I am so and so”. When the mantle is pricked, his pride and the ego raises its ugly head. For a moment he forgets that he is not even an entity, but a non entity! He is caught up in duality and sees the good bad, ugly and beautiful in the external world, whereas there is neither good nor bad or beauty or ugly, as the world is what it is. He gets attracted to the beauty and gets repelled by the ugly. He goes through the routine cycle of ‘awake state’ light sleep and deep sleep, totally oblivious to its significance. He never turns the searchlights inwards, always focusing on the ‘non existent’ outside world, which is a projection of his own mind, without a moment of reflection on the process itself. He gathers nourishment for the continuum as he is drifted helplessly by the violent current. There comes a point called conventional ‘death’. All that the entity had acquired through a lifetime, ‘my wealth’ ‘my fame’ ‘my name’ all comes to zero and the mass of energy moves on to manifest elsewhere in a different ‘case’ of a man or animal. The entity goes through this cycle until such time it understands the process he is caught up in. The tragi- comic denouement of the drama is that the clergy comes to the funeral and sings an eulogy of a man who never ‘lived’. This is not only the history of man, but also the future of man. ..” “………We see a wide gap between birth and death which we see as two independent events on account of the intervening Time between the two events. But we are told that ‘Time’ is a creation of the mind and therefore it is illusory and non existent. If we go beyond the mind and let go of it, we also let go of the intervening time. Then there is no gap between birth and death. Birth and death becomes one event. “ Anicca vata sankhara - uppada vaya dhammino - all conditioned things are not lasting. Death is inherent in birth”. It is the illusion of a static moment ( Uppada Tithi Bhanga)between birth and death which gives us the false impression of solidity and continuity…”. “……..The Vision and ‘thoughts’ are the opposites. So long as our mind is cluttered with thoughts, there is no prospect of reaching the goal of Enlightened Vision. When thoughts are completely stilled and the right environment is created for Enlightened Vision, Buddha Nature within us will surface in all it’s splendor…….”. “……How de we still the thoughts. The conventional exercise of mindfulness (sathipattana) persuades us to look at our own thoughts, whether good or evil and to make a silent note of it without protest. It is suggested that when we don’t pursue a thought, it will dissipate it’s vitality and evaporate into thin air. But this is a mind game to engage one thought to track another thought. “send a thief to catch a thief” but the tracking thought itself is born of illusion In a sense, it is suppressing a thought continuum like keeping a rubber ball pressed under water. Given the opportunity, it will surface from elsewhere. Buddha taught to let go of the thoughts. How do we let go of the thoughts? All thoughts have their origin in the five senses. Either the impressions collected at the present moment are developed into thoughts or else we cultivate thoughts by retrieving the impressions deposited in the memory. Since all thoughts are born from Sanna impressions, which the Buddha described as a mirage, they have their origin in a mirage or illusion. Once we get this insight and furthermore that thoughts do not belong to us, we do not attribute all that importance to thoughts. ‘Good thoughts and bad thoughts ‘ all are like phantoms playing in the mind and they fade away as they come. They will flow by without leaving an impression. ….” “ ….As the Master says, there is one Truth in the world and the six senses recognize six truths. Living within the frame of the six sense based truths, we attempt to access the final Truth of life. It is like the proverbial attempt to fold the mat while you are standing on it. You have to move away from it to fold it. Similarly you have to move away from the mind and the senses to reach the Enlighten Vision as it lies beyond the mind and senses. There are references to the letting go of the mind in the texts. A) In Ratana sutta Buddha says his disciples let go of the mind as they undertake this great renunciation.- “Ye suppa utta manasa dalhena” In the Dhammachakka pavattana sutta Buddha says I am totally rid of the mind and there is no further becoming for me - ”Akkuppa me chetho vimukthi aya manthima jathi nattidani punabbavo”. “ The two minds- It is useful to make the distinction between the mind that springs into life as we get up from deep sleep and guides our lives from that point onwards. This mind also has a history of it’s own in that it is unique to each individual. It is a mind that has been nurtured through millions of years with the association of senses. It is also termed “nippancha”. When one of the senses pick up a signal from outside, it is this mind that processes the signal in the light of accumulated data and reacts to the signal through attachment or aversion. This mind is invariably associated with the senses. On the opposite is the Buddha Mind within us also known as Paramatta Mana. It is non reactive because it has no nippancha to process the signals that come from outside. Therefore this mind sees without reactions or judgments the True Nature of things. This mind is universal and associated with deep sleep. Translated by Mr Sapukotana.
I have read Quran. Its very difficult to find any moral values in the book when compared to Dhammapada. I understand Buddha's teaching. I will not work ship Buddha like other religions pray. Only understanding teaching and meditation are important.
Bodisatva = Deus = Brahman = God = Allah = 'Avaricious, evolving, in delusion' Lord = Consciousness KĀLĀMA SUTTA Do not believe anything (Simply), because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything (Simply), because it is found written in your religious scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observations and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it. ~Buddha ❤ Anguttara Nikaya
+MrTonyshit80 According to Damma it is not that every body goes to heaven ,those who live meaning full life for ex following five precepts (abstain killing.lying.stealing,intoxicating ,and sexual misconduct)this is the basic of damma to create your own heaven in this life and after death.just think for a while what is happening in the world at present.so many violence are going on.what humanbiengs are doing
Abraham once advised his sons. Don't worship stones and woods. Don't worship the sun, stars and moon. Don't worship animals. Don't worship other human. Worship the ONE that created you. Because the ONE that created you is also the creator of everything around and above you.
Worship the good qualities of mankind but not a person, a physical body that age and decay and subjected to all sorts of ailments and sufferings or a statue made of gold, silver, iron, any other metal or clay.That's what Buddhists do - not the people who are labelled as Buddhists by birth.
Have you seen a God? How he looks like? How he behave? If there is God, why jesus came to so called wash your sins., why many Christian still undergone illness. Rebirth., accidents, cancer, can't have what they wish what they prayed for? Why God never able help their believers get what they want till now? How long is the sins left? Why still can't wash away since your God can assist Christian to wash your sins? Why for 2000 years past. Still Christian god can't handle? Also, Since your God so powerful, why he dun handle once and for all in the wotrld? Wash all sins at one go? Where is your God capacity? Got limited ??
The Law myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s a sound vibration that is the essence of all of existence and non-existence, the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the true creator of everything that is, ever was and ever will be, right down to the minutest particles of dust, each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middle man’ to connect us to our state of enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves by tapping directly into it by way of self-produced sound vibration. On the subject of ‘Who or What Is God?’, when we compare the concept of ‘God’, as a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to Nichiren’s teachings, the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people call ‘God’ is our enlightenment, which exists nowhere else but within us. When the disciples asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God is, didn’t he tell them that it was within them? Some say that ‘God’ is an entity that can never be seen. I think that the vast amount of information that is constantly being conveyed via electromagnetic waves gives us proof of how an invisible state of ‘God’ could actually exist. It’s widely known that certain data being relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects, including instant global awareness of something or mass emotional reaction. As well as many other things, it’s also common knowledge that these waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to even enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars. However, none of this is possible without a receiver to decode the information that is being transmitted. Without the receiver, the information would remain impotent. In a very similar way, it’s important for us to have our ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our life, all other life and what we and all else that exists truly is. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and switch it on. That’s because the sound vibration of ‘myoho-renge-kyo’ represents the combination of the three major laws that underlie all existence. ‘Myoho’ represents the Law of latency and manifestation (Nature), and consists of two alternating states. One state of ‘myo’ is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists. This includes our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them, our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re not being expressed, our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma, and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ‘ho’, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes obvious to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory, whenever we experience or express our emotions, or whenever a good or bad effect manifests from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it simply means that it has come out of the state of ‘myo’ (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ‘ho’ (manifestation). It’s simply the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing something. The second law, ‘renge’, governs and controls the functions of ‘myoho’, ‘ren’ meaning cause and ‘ge’ meaning effect. The two laws of ‘myoho’ and ‘renge’, both functions together simultaneously, as well as underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination, ‘kyo’, is what allows the law ‘myoho’ to be able to integrate with the law ‘renge’. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects together all Life and matter, as well as the past, present and future. It is often termed the Universal Law of Communication. Perhaps it could even be compared to the ‘string theory’ that some scientists now suspect exists. Just as our body cells, thoughts, feelings and all else are constantly fluctuating within us, everything in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux, in accordance with these three laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of ‘myo’ and ‘ho’ in a single moment than it would ever be possible for us to calculate or describe. And it doesn't matter how big or small, important or trivial that anything may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now, or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of 'myoho-renge-kyo'. These three laws are also the basis of the four fundamental forces and if they didn't function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. Simply put, all forms of existence, including the seasons, day and night, birth, death and so on, are all moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation, rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two universal states of ‘myo’ and ‘ho’ in absolute accordance with ‘renge’ and by way of ‘kyo’. Even stars are dying and being reborn in accordance with the workings of what the combination ‘myoho-renge-kyo’ represents. ‘Nam’, or 'Namu', on the other hand, is a password or a key; it allows us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘myoho-renge-kyo’. On a more personal basis, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives from moment to moment, as well in our environment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is turning, and rhythmically chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for a minimum of ten minutes daily, anyone can experience actual proof of its positive effects in their life. In so doing, we can pierce through even the thickest layers of our karma and activate our Buddha Nature (enlightened state). We’re then able to bring forth the wisdom needed to challenge, overcome and change our negative circumstances into positive ones. It brings forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that is preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we truly are, regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexual preference. We are also able to see and understand our circumstances and environment more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. Actual proof soon becomes apparent to anyone who chants the words Nam-myoho-renge-kyo on a regular daily basis. Everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect, so the strength of the result from chanting depends on dedication, sincerity and determination. To explain it more simply, the difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a song and so on. th-cam.com/video/KfRcUpoPl7w/w-d-xo.html
yes. i found some one.who never lied a single lie in his entire life time.thats swami vivakananda.not only vivekananda all great spiritual leader like jesus,muhammad also did the same
Buddhist say Buddha is not a god. But they say that Buddha is omniscience (which is a characteristic of a god(the creator). Dhammanda once said that Buddhism is "non theism". Now he say that Buddha didn't say that there is no god. You'll get nowhere talking to a Buddhist. They are more confuse than Buddha himself.
auni2008 You are more confused. Buddhists believe in existence of gods in heavens. Google: "31 planes of existence". Buddhists dont worship them because they are samsaric beings who will surely fall from their heavens once their good karma exhausts.
@@bigsmoke903 I bet you haven't read tripitaka. Read devduta sutta(MN 129) for hell, Mahasihananda sutta( MN 12), Nanda Sutta, Also this very important sutta legacy.suttacentral.net/en/mn120
There is only One God, the Creator, He has no form since He is a Spirit, but can have many manifestations ( which is called Transcendent Nature of God). Jesus Christ has brought us a close image and information about God and the Way of life we should follow; LOVE, COMPASSION, FORGIVENESS, PURITY and SINCERITY of our souls and hearts ( searching and following the TRUTH). Pure souls all over the world who follow God of Love can be called" Communion of Saints." Notice however that: Not all structured religious organizations are indeed following God's Way. Sometimes they are motivated by Power, Greed and Falsehood ( False Teachers, which are many in todays world ) so test the spirits ( people, organizations) if they indeed believe in God. Marcie
dude, u are lost. what are u doing here? u didnt come to learn buddhism, but downloaded your superstition of fictitious god here instead! what is your intent? are u trying to proselytise? there is enough trouble in this world, keep your superstitious belief to yourself or go to the correct christian site. its a free world to chose your belief, but dont impose your fictitious creater god here. god wouldnt want u to bring quarrel to other sentient beings.
Poor man your believe God created you.created the wotld. If there is s God can create can wash yours sins away, why Jesus christ died so pitifully. Instead Buddha, despite someone trying to kill him several times but no one can harm him. Even the intoxicated elephant, was tame by Buddha most kind Metha heart. Do you see it?
Hisham hi Gods are impermanent beings suffering in samsara. They are living in heavens. But one day when their good karma exhausts they will take rebirth in lower realms.
Ven Dr K Sri Dhammananda, you are not with us here today but the Buddha dhamma that you taught us will forever be with us. Thank you very much for such a wonderful talk. May all our good-deeds gathered during our lives also help you to attain Nirvana. Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu..
, very clear declaration.
May the great nayaka thero attain supreme bliss of nirwana with the blessing of all collective meritorious deeds....
Ven thero your damma discussions are very important and so simple to understand who learns English triple gem bless U
Thankyou venerable 🙏
Best of the lessons
Excellent dharma speaker. I highly recommend people to listen to his dharma.
So very GREAT preaching
Thanks for uploading
blessing for uploading such a great preaching
සාදු සාදු සාදු
Wonderful. Such powerful chanting at the end too. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu !!!
A Great Monk of Buddhism
Grate Lesson ...lot's of things to learn to us, great Monk we had in our life .....!
valuable Damma which we should realize for our day today life and after this life .MAY YOU ATTAIN SUPREME BLESS OF NIRVANA
Spirituality and connection it the idea. Religion has caused more harm than good. Death to those who believed differently. My version if God is different or the only one or way. Death and condemnation. People tortured and slowly burnt at stake in cases. The wood was wetted around the edges to make the person suffer and burn much longer. People stretched slowly and torn apart. Christianity in history has the most torture chambers of all. No longer today. Of course nothing to do with Jesus. To put all your sins on someone else never works. A blood atonement solves nothing. Unless you change within and your way of thinking nothing will change. If course millions died for political reasons nothing to do with religion or faith. However religion and faith has added to the death toll. Obviously something has gone wrong. Seems if people accept a more natural explanation then much of this and many questions go away. The more we learn and loose ignorance so much can be made better. Religion is not the answer. Atheism is not the answer as well. That really says nothing. We know love and compassion brings people together and people work better together and more problems can get solved. Most religion has caused death and fear. Only now torture chambers are gone. All done away with through knowledge and getting rid of ignorance. Amazing scientific discoveries have gotten rid of these things. Still some problems but much better now. Let's all work together to make the world a better place. Take care from atheist/agnostic Lee.
Namaskar
WE MUST ALL REALIZE THE BUDDHA NATURE WITHIN AND ATTAIN ENLIGHTENMENT
Great Talks ,Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu .
Sadu sadu sadu
Those who believe in creator God.
Are Simple minded perdon. Not confident person.
Not doing enough good karma deeds to understand Buddhas teaching...
Is ok. Be good be kind ...
In life to come, if you would accumulated enough kindness deeds, you will change your mind...
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Um, I believe in a Creator God, and Im FAR from "simple" minded. In fact, saying that sounds very ignorant especially to those who do believe and worship God/s
Are Hindus "simple" minded for believing in God? Bahai's? What about those who believe in multiple gods??
Having a belief or no belief in God doesn't mean you need "confidence" because confidence is something that comes naturally whatever the confidence comes from God or not. I however need confidence from God from time to time because as a mere human with limitations, we can't do EVERYTHING ourselves because we are not gods. See what Im saying?
Brilliant n simple .
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu，
Maha Sadhu😀🙏🙏🙏
Thank You for uploading. Please re-upload as the sound is unaligned with the picture.
Thank You again.
theruvan saranayi
The Brahma - Creator, Vishnu - Protector and Shiva - Destroyer, correspond to Buddhist observed phenomena of the universe ; arising, maintaining and decaying, finally void which later arising again thus a never ending cycle.
I really want to watch this, but I have 3 kids running around all the time. Can anybody give me a short summary please? Thank you. I love you forever.
Good
Sadhu sadhu sadhu
Why stoped this youtube channel
great
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Sadu ....Sadu....Sadu.........!!!
Anatole France the famous French writer once said “ Man is born. He lived and he died. This is the history of mankind."...
This gives a truer picture than most books written on man’s history. However, there is a deeper Truth of the history of the so called ‘man.’ A mass of energy manifests in a womb. After seventy seven days another form of energy gets linked to what remained formerly as pure physical energy. From then onwards, a combined mass of energy develops inside the womb. Organs like the eye, the ear, nose are gradually formed in the fetus. It gets nourishment from the mother and after nine or ten months an entity is born. ( For convenience of expression we call this combined mass of energy ‘The entity’) Whereas the organs were sealed inside the womb, after birth the tiny organs are exposed to the external world. For the first three months,the eyes see forms, the ear hears sounds etc. But it does not discriminate between forms or sounds. After three months, the entity starts reacting to external forms and sounds as the pabhassara citta (pure luminous mind) starts fading away. He sees a particular ‘pattern of form’ moving around him and also hears a pattern of sound called ‘Ma’ . At one stage he links up the ‘form pattern’ to the sound pattern and calls it “ Ma”. The second energy called the ‘mind’ has by now got activated. From then on, the entity starts acquiring more and more impressions from the external world he sees. The society around it attributes ‘words’ to describe such impressions. He takes these words as real and holds on to them through its lifetime. Around this time another landmark event takes place in the moving history of the entity. While the child plays with brothers or sisters, when one of them tries to grab a toy, he says it is ‘My toy’ “ Ego” is born. ‘Me’ is born. My mother is born. ‘ ‘My world’ and ‘your world’ is born. While he gets on with ‘his world’, Nature provides air in the form of inward breath followed by outward breath for him to sustain life because he is a part of Nature.
In the meantime, parents attribute a ‘name’ say John or Smith and this consolidates the illusion of ‘my world’. He grows up and goes about with the newly acquired impressions and words. By this time he has built up ‘ my family’ ‘my town’, ‘my country’ ‘my race’, ’my religion’. He fights fiercely for these non existent phenomena. He plays varied roles in the drama of life, what the society calls doctors, accountants, technicians, artisans etc. He could be a king, a beggar but still goes through the same process, caught up in the incessant flow of time, living and dying every moment. He is by now a complete slave of the five senses which hides the Truth of flowing energy and portray a totally false picture of solidity to keep him bound hand and foot to the illusory world. He runs after the mirage of fame , glory and happiness, not realizing for a moment that he is chasing shadows. He goes about with the mantle that “ I am so and so”. When the mantle is pricked, his pride and the ego raises its ugly head. For a moment he forgets that he is not even an entity, but a non entity! He is caught up in duality and sees the good bad, ugly and beautiful in the external world, whereas there is neither good nor bad or beauty or ugly, as the world is what it is. He gets attracted to the beauty and gets repelled by the ugly. He goes through the routine cycle of ‘awake state’ light sleep and deep sleep, totally oblivious to its significance. He never turns the searchlights inwards, always focusing on the ‘non existent’ outside world, which is a projection of his own mind, without a moment of reflection on the process itself. He gathers nourishment for the continuum as he is drifted helplessly by the violent current. There comes a point called conventional ‘death’. All that the entity had acquired through a lifetime, ‘my wealth’ ‘my fame’ ‘my name’ all comes to zero and the mass of energy moves on to manifest elsewhere in a different ‘case’ of a man or animal. The entity goes through this cycle until such time it understands the process he is caught up in. The tragi- comic denouement of the drama is that the clergy comes to the funeral and sings an eulogy of a man who never ‘lived’. This is not only the history of man, but also the future of man. ..” “………We see a wide gap between birth and death which we see as two independent events on account of the intervening Time between the two events. But we are told that ‘Time’ is a creation of the mind and therefore it is illusory and non existent. If we go beyond the mind and let go of it, we also let go of the intervening time. Then there is no gap between birth and death. Birth and death
becomes one event. “ Anicca vata sankhara - uppada vaya dhammino - all conditioned things are not lasting. Death is inherent in birth”. It is the illusion of a static moment ( Uppada Tithi Bhanga)between birth and death which gives us the false impression of solidity and continuity…”. “……..The Vision and ‘thoughts’ are the opposites. So long as our mind is cluttered with thoughts, there is no prospect of reaching the goal of Enlightened Vision. When thoughts are completely stilled and the right environment is created for Enlightened Vision, Buddha Nature within us will surface in all it’s splendor…….”. “……How de we still the thoughts. The conventional exercise of mindfulness (sathipattana) persuades us to look at our own thoughts, whether good or evil and to make a silent note of it without protest. It is suggested that when we don’t pursue a thought, it will dissipate it’s vitality and evaporate into thin air. But this is a mind game to engage one thought to track another thought. “send a thief to catch a thief” but the tracking thought itself is born of illusion In a sense, it is suppressing a thought continuum like keeping a rubber ball pressed under water. Given the opportunity, it will surface from elsewhere. Buddha taught to let go of the thoughts. How do we let go of the thoughts? All thoughts have their origin in the five senses. Either the impressions collected at the present moment are developed into thoughts or else we cultivate thoughts by retrieving the impressions deposited in the memory. Since all thoughts are born from Sanna impressions, which the Buddha described as a mirage, they have their origin in a mirage or illusion. Once we get this insight and furthermore that thoughts do not belong to us, we do not attribute all that importance to thoughts. ‘Good thoughts and bad thoughts ‘ all are like phantoms playing in the mind and they fade away as they come. They will flow by without leaving an impression. ….” “ ….As the Master says, there is one Truth in the world and the six senses recognize six truths. Living within the frame of the six sense based truths, we attempt to access the final Truth of life. It is like the proverbial attempt to fold the mat while you are standing on it. You have to move away from it to fold it. Similarly you have to move away from the mind and the senses to reach the Enlighten Vision as it lies beyond the mind and senses. There are references to the letting go of the mind in the texts. A) In Ratana sutta Buddha says his disciples let go of the mind as they undertake this great renunciation.- “Ye suppa utta manasa dalhena” In the Dhammachakka pavattana sutta Buddha says I am totally rid of the mind and there is no further becoming for me - ”Akkuppa me chetho vimukthi aya manthima jathi nattidani punabbavo”.
“ The two minds- It is useful to make the distinction between the mind that springs into life as we get up from deep sleep and guides our lives from that point onwards. This mind also has a history of it’s own in that it is unique to each individual. It is a mind that has been nurtured through millions of years with the association of senses. It is also termed “nippancha”. When one of the senses pick up a signal from outside, it is this mind that processes the signal in the light of accumulated data and reacts to the signal through attachment or aversion. This mind is invariably associated with the senses. On the opposite is the Buddha Mind within us also known as Paramatta Mana. It is non reactive because it has no nippancha to process the signals that come from outside. Therefore this mind sees without reactions or judgments the True Nature of things. This mind is universal and associated with deep sleep.
Translated by Mr Sapukotana.
Miss Chief Rev k Sri Dhammananda. But thankfully his videos and books are everywhere in the internet
Great Thanks for sharing all theses knowledge to us .Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu🙏🙏🙏
A great speech. But unfortunately, the words comes before his action. The whole video should undergo reconfiguration. Anyway, thanks for posting.
What does that mean? "But unfortunately, the words comes before his action". Can you explain that?
he meant the video quality is lagging.
I have read Quran. Its very difficult to find any moral values in the book when compared to Dhammapada. I understand Buddha's teaching. I will not work ship Buddha like other religions pray. Only understanding teaching and meditation are important.
IS ALL HERE.
Bodisatva = Deus = Brahman = God = Allah = 'Avaricious, evolving, in delusion'
Lord = Consciousness
KĀLĀMA SUTTA
Do not believe anything (Simply),
because you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditions because they
have handed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything (Simply),
because it is found written in your religious scriptures.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
But after observations and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.
~Buddha ❤
Anguttara Nikaya
I in confused...whether the christians, Muslim, hindu or budha will enter the heaven or who will enter the hell...
+MrTonyshit80 According to Damma it is not that every body goes to heaven ,those who live meaning full life for ex following five precepts (abstain killing.lying.stealing,intoxicating ,and sexual misconduct)this is the basic of damma to create your own heaven in this life and after death.just think for a while what is happening in the world at present.so many violence are going on.what humanbiengs are doing
Supporter of So called God know very good God is nothing but imagi -nation , mythology although they believe it horribly can kill the God.
Abraham once advised his sons.
Don't worship stones and woods.
Don't worship the sun, stars and moon.
Don't worship animals.
Don't worship other human.
Worship the ONE that created you. Because the ONE that created you is also the creator of everything around and above you.
auni2008 www.amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.ro/2015/02/there-is-no-supreme-creator-god-in.html
Good
Worship the good qualities of mankind but not a person, a physical body that age and decay and subjected to all sorts of ailments and sufferings or a statue made of gold, silver, iron, any other metal or clay.That's what Buddhists do - not the people who are labelled as Buddhists by birth.
Have you seen a God?
How he looks like?
How he behave?
If there is God, why jesus came to so called wash your sins., why many Christian still undergone illness. Rebirth., accidents, cancer, can't have what they wish what they prayed for?
Why God never able help their believers get what they want till now?
How long is the sins left? Why still can't wash away since your God can assist Christian to wash your sins? Why for 2000 years past. Still Christian god can't handle? Also,
Since your God so powerful, why he dun handle once and for all in the wotrld? Wash all sins at one go? Where is your God capacity? Got limited ??
There are gods but NO creator god.
The Law myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s a sound vibration that is the essence of all of existence and non-existence, the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source.
Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the true creator of everything that is, ever was and ever will be, right down to the minutest particles of dust, each being an individual ripple or wave.
The big difference between chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middle man’ to connect us to our state of enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves by tapping directly into it by way of self-produced sound vibration.
On the subject of ‘Who or What Is God?’, when we compare the concept of ‘God’, as a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to Nichiren’s teachings, the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people call ‘God’ is our enlightenment, which exists nowhere else but within us.
When the disciples asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God is, didn’t he tell them that it was within them?
Some say that ‘God’ is an entity that can never be seen. I think that the vast amount of information that is constantly being conveyed via electromagnetic waves gives us proof of how an invisible state of ‘God’ could actually exist.
It’s widely known that certain data being relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects, including instant global awareness of something or mass emotional reaction. As well as many other things, it’s also common knowledge that these waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to even enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars. However, none of this is possible without a receiver to decode the information that is being transmitted. Without the receiver, the information would remain impotent.
In a very similar way, it’s important for us to have our ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our life, all other life and what we and all else that exists truly is. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and switch it on. That’s because the sound vibration of ‘myoho-renge-kyo’ represents the combination of the three major laws that underlie all existence.
‘Myoho’ represents the Law of latency and manifestation (Nature), and consists of two alternating states. One state of ‘myo’ is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists. This includes our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them, our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re not being expressed, our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma, and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ‘ho’, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes obvious to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory, whenever we experience or express our emotions, or whenever a good or bad effect manifests from our karma.
When anything becomes apparent, it simply means that it has come out of the state of ‘myo’ (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ‘ho’ (manifestation). It’s simply the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing something.
The second law, ‘renge’, governs and controls the functions of ‘myoho’, ‘ren’ meaning cause and ‘ge’ meaning effect. The two laws of ‘myoho’ and ‘renge’, both functions together simultaneously, as well as underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination, ‘kyo’, is what allows the law ‘myoho’ to be able to integrate with the law ‘renge’. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects together all Life and matter, as well as the past, present and future. It is often termed the Universal Law of Communication. Perhaps it could even be compared to the ‘string theory’ that some scientists now suspect exists.
Just as our body cells, thoughts, feelings and all else are constantly fluctuating within us, everything in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux, in accordance with these three laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of ‘myo’ and ‘ho’ in a single moment than it would ever be possible for us to calculate or describe. And it doesn't matter how big or small, important or trivial that anything may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now, or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of 'myoho-renge-kyo'.
These three laws are also the basis of the four fundamental forces and if they didn't function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. Simply put, all forms of existence, including the seasons, day and night, birth, death and so on, are all moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation, rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two universal states of ‘myo’ and ‘ho’ in absolute accordance with ‘renge’ and by way of ‘kyo’. Even stars are dying and being reborn in accordance with the workings of what the combination ‘myoho-renge-kyo’ represents.
‘Nam’, or 'Namu', on the other hand, is a password or a key; it allows us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘myoho-renge-kyo’. On a more personal basis, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives from moment to moment, as well in our environment.
By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is turning, and rhythmically chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for a minimum of ten minutes daily, anyone can experience actual proof of its positive effects in their life.
In so doing, we can pierce through even the thickest layers of our karma and activate our Buddha Nature (enlightened state). We’re then able to bring forth the wisdom needed to challenge, overcome and change our negative circumstances into positive ones. It brings forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that is preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we truly are, regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexual preference. We are also able to see and understand our circumstances and environment more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations.
Actual proof soon becomes apparent to anyone who chants the words Nam-myoho-renge-kyo on a regular daily basis. Everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect, so the strength of the result from chanting depends on dedication, sincerity and determination. To explain it more simply, the difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a song and so on.
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there is no heaven,no hell,speak it Dr.K.Sri.get the people out of this mind control religion.
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There are neither hell or heaven.
@Freedomvoice888
A desert cult is enough to convince some dumb folks about an old wizard in the sky.
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yes. i found some one.who never lied a single lie in his entire life time.thats swami vivakananda.not only vivekananda all great spiritual leader like jesus,muhammad also did the same
Singapore Chinese knows very little about Buddhism.
Buddhist say Buddha is not a god.
But they say that Buddha is omniscience (which is a characteristic of a god(the creator).
Dhammanda once said that Buddhism is "non theism". Now he say that Buddha didn't say that there is no god.
You'll get nowhere talking to a Buddhist. They are more confuse than Buddha himself.
auni2008
You are more confused. Buddhists believe in existence of gods in heavens. Google: "31 planes of existence". Buddhists dont worship them because they are samsaric beings who will surely fall from their heavens once their good karma exhausts.
It takes a confused person like you to twist and turn reality to self satisfaction. You are more confusing than anyone
@@surendrasharma1798 you're wrong brother we don't believe in the concept of god nor we worship any god.
@@bigsmoke903
I bet you haven't read tripitaka.
Read devduta sutta(MN 129) for hell, Mahasihananda sutta( MN 12), Nanda Sutta,
Also this very important sutta
legacy.suttacentral.net/en/mn120
He didn't say there's no god because people like you would get hurt by hearing it. He says indirectly that God is nonsense. Now get with it
There is only One God, the Creator, He has no form since He is a Spirit, but can have many manifestations ( which is called Transcendent Nature of God). Jesus Christ has brought us a close image and information about God and the Way of life we should follow; LOVE, COMPASSION, FORGIVENESS, PURITY and SINCERITY of our souls and hearts ( searching and following the TRUTH). Pure souls all over the world who follow God of Love can be called" Communion of Saints." Notice however that: Not all structured religious organizations are indeed following God's Way. Sometimes they are motivated by Power, Greed and Falsehood ( False Teachers, which are many in todays world ) so test the spirits ( people, organizations) if they indeed believe in God.
Marcie
dude, u are lost. what are u doing here? u didnt come to learn buddhism, but downloaded your superstition of fictitious god here instead! what is your intent? are u trying to proselytise?
there is enough trouble in this world, keep your superstitious belief to yourself or go to the correct christian site. its a free world to chose your belief, but dont impose your fictitious creater god here. god wouldnt want u to bring quarrel to other sentient beings.
zopa seah thank you... Sadhu...sadhu....sadhu...!!!!
Bill De Jesus www.amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.ro/2015/02/there-is-no-supreme-creator-god-in.html
Poor man your believe God created you.created the wotld. If there is s God can create can wash yours sins away, why Jesus christ died so pitifully. Instead Buddha, despite someone trying to kill him several times but no one can harm him. Even the intoxicated elephant, was tame by Buddha most kind Metha heart. Do you see it?
Bill de jesus you might as well believe in superman or batman or the avengers😜
Budda never clam his god,god can not bigotton. god is Almighty only one and only.
better shoud read all scripture and find the fact ..
Hisham hi
Gods are impermanent beings suffering in samsara. They are living in heavens. But one day when their good karma exhausts they will take rebirth in lower realms.
Buddha was scared to Hindu God Maha-Bharma..... ha. ha. ha
You are absolutely wrong
What made you say that?