About Buddhism- The Three Vehicles, Three Baskets, and Three Trainings.
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- Here I talk a little bit about the various different iterations of the Buddha's teachings in terms of their outer appearance and primarily as regards their view, meditation, and conduct. My hope is that this video may help you to make an informed decision about your own future spiritual journey.
00:00 Three Vehicles, Three Baskets, and Three Trainings
03:13 A Simple Classification of the Three Schools
04:02 Identifying the Followers of the Different Schools
07:18 Classifications in terms of View, Meditation, and Conduct of
07:32 the Hinayana and the Four Noble Truths
10:20 The Mahayana and the Two Truths
13:05 The Vajrayana and the Final View
16:51 "Which Tradition is Best Suited to my Needs?"
19:52 Prerequisits for Entering One of the Three Vehicles
19:38 Choosing a Path
20:42 Aspirational Practice
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I love how precise you are in your speech. You have a very mathematical mechanical mind. Everything is so exact.🙏📿
You are too kind Fran
you are a great source of inspiration friend choga. much love to all 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️☮️
praise to the three jewels and the five wisdom kings. and thank you, lama, for this video. i feel a lot clearer about the paths ahead.
This is so badly needed to be described. Thank you for using the words and teachings of the Buddha to relay this message. I am so greatful that you are doing well.
Beautifully explained, Lama Choga. Blessings on the turning of the wheel.🙏❤️🦋
Wonderfully erudite and well-delivered for the benefit of all sentient beings 🙏🕉☸️✌️❤️
Thank you for this, appreciate the descriptions.
Thank you 🙏that was a great teaching delivered with precision and insight.
Thank you Lama Choga, This talk is very timely for me as I have recently been contemplating the differences between the three vehicles. There is still much for me to learn but, I have a little more insight than I did 20 minutes ago.
Very needed.
See you there Jerry
Another fantastic video on the Buddhadharma. I love these sort of breakdowns of different traditions. I've been practicing Zen (almost) daily now for around two years and I am often interested in the other vehicles, but there is so much within just Mahayana!
One small thing I'll add is that even within Mahayana, many monks take issue with the Japanese interpretation of celibacy. In Chinese Zen monasteries, monks are often quite horrified or perplexed when they learn the Japanese allow marriage and sex for monks. The Japanese are also less strict with vegetarianism, while the Chinese Zen monks are strict vegans. (no animal products at all)
Thank you for helping me.
Thankyou so much! I will watch this again very soon!! ❤
Very interesting thanks 🙏🤟
I saw this posted recently and thought it was apropos to this video's topic:
THOSE WHO KNOW THIS WAY ARE WISE
~ Aryadeva
In the beginning, one reverses nonvirtue.
In the middle, one reverses the view of a self.
In the end, one reverses all views.
Those who know this way are wise.
Buddyism is all about your buddy, treat them as if they were family and keep them close in times of hardship.
Gosh, that was sharp and concise.
Thank you.
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I missed your videos on doctrinal analysis/technicalities.
Have you considered doing a video on Pure Land Buddhism? It's such a beautiful subsection of schools in my view, and yet it seems to be completely unknown to most Westerners, in spite of how popular it is.
See you there 🙏🕉☸️✌️❤️
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Wonderful 🙏
I was asked a similar question recently by a friend potentially interested in Varjyana, so I will share this with them 🙏
@@ShaneIsAlways Thanks for the share
Important subjects, thanks! Why not sravakayana instead of hinayana though? Also, why implicitly associate mahayana exclusively with the second turning of the wheel instead of the third as well?
I forgot I have a question: How come you do not have counters on your beads. I'm just curious and willing to learn.
I took them off because I prefer simplicity
@ultimatemeaning that makes sense
Watching til sleeping 😴 love you man❤
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Love you as my father man❤
To become a Buddhist, we need to take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, and to keep the five precepts as a lay person?
Lama Choga, would you be willing to give an updated discord invitation? The link in the social section seems to be invalid/expired. 🙏
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Have you only gotten into the teachings of one school? If not, how deep are your insights into the other schools - what text/practices/etc are identical/similar/different?
(big topic, small answer is more than sufficient.. or none ofc lol)
Well, this is interesting. I can see the influence of canonical Tibetan sources on your presentation. But I think you are mistaken to identify the "hinayana" with the "Theravada". If you listen to Theravada teachers, you will hear many concepts and practices which we would associate with the mahayana and vajrayana schools in your classification. Instead, I have heard Thrangu Rinpoche, Trungpa Rinpoche, and Ringu Tulku describe the three yanas from the perspective of the student's experience along the path, sort of like a developmental progression that is experienced by the student, rather than as a classification of the sects or schools of buddhism.
I have come so far in my understanding, that I have realized that Hardcore Theravada is the ONLY true path🧐
What one needs to do, is to fully accept the noble truth of suffering, otherwise you will constantly have to embrace repeated disturbing and terrible dissapointments. There is no facing it with wisdom. For it can be pure torture.
But, it is possible to fully disengage and just be dead, even while living. One must be laid waste and fall into void and unconsciousness. There where no suffering matters, neithers does any pleasure matter. All is empty, all will return to that oblivion, one day without retrieval. Where those who lived a good life remembers not a single moment of happiness. Where those who lived terrible lives can not remember. In the end these were equal. For they are dead and all is lost. But the suffering is finally gone.
It is like the scientist who put rice in two boxes. Into one box he would whisper "I love you. You are special" into the other box he would say "I hate you, you are a monster". And the rice that recieved praise stayed pristine, the rice that received curses rotted and turned foul.
Then, one day, the rice that was called special was tossed in the compost. And then right after, the rice that was hated, that had turned almost black, landed right next to it. For no one eats old rice.
When one becomes like hated rice, annhilation is bliss. One can only smile, as the rice who thought it was special finally sees the light. The truth that was always the truth.
And so, we must not let ourselves be beguiled by the distractions and maya of instagram. These are theatrics. These people, all they are going, is whispering praise to a box of rice that will be tossed as garbage when it gets to old.
To deal with samsara, like one deals with a bear. Play dead. And disassociate with great auspiciousness, like a regicide convict being flayed in town square. Seeking towards inpermanence gleefully, like foul rice, rotting away fro the bottom of the bag, spreading all its color, slowly taking over all good rice. Like agent Smith in the matrix.
Namaste🙏🏼
Thank you for the teachings. I must ask, how is it that according to the (hinyana?) tradition, humans might all abandon samara? If they are to beg for their meal, someone must be there feeding them? Is there an approach or attiude they have to self-sustanance?
There is a culture of Dana (complicated topic but basically of giving to monastics) in Buddhist countries that is already established. This is part of why Choga mentioned it was harder to practice this path in the West.
Begging is not regarded as a means for liberation of samsara by itself. Buddha dharma is very practical in its approach towards what’s beneficial for ones practice. It is focused on freeing up time and opportunity for the mind to focus on those aspects of mind-training that actually leads to the arising of wisdom, which is what liberates us from samsara. In order to actually give rise to the primordial wisdom inherent in the mind we must not get stuck in just one way of approaching reality and the way we relate to it. A typical practitioner goes through many different stages and phases along his journey that may look very different in the outer appearances but have the common feature of being of a liberating quality on the inside. Being a monk or a nun means being someone with obvious vows of outer discipline (vinaya). That doesn’t mean that other types of practitioners doesn’t rely on discipline. Personal discipline is one of the three pillars of practice for all practitioners regardless of what types of vows they may have. The purpose of discipline is to ensure that we stay focused on our course and doesn’t undermine our efforts with mindless distractions and detrimental behaviours. There are three general levels to discipline where the lifestyle and behaviours of a life as munk or nun is regarded as the outer level. Then on the inner level we have the vows of Bodhisattva (Bodhichitta) which emphasises the full understanding of Prajnaparamita and emptiness in combination with the pledge to always remain in the worlds of being’s until all have been liberated. And finally we have the secret level of discipline associated with the hidden esoteric teachings of Varjayana (samaya) which emphasises the vision of the purity of mind and phenomena.
Does Theravada accept emptiness of phenomena other than human self?
Yes 🙏 Theravada teaches that all things are non-self, empty, impermanent, unsatisfactory
@@kylehutchings1479 Some people told me it's a mahayana doctrine.
To my knowledge Theravada adheres to Abhidharma-adjacent philosophy on these matters. That said, my main reference point for this is a practitioner who practices Esoteric Theravada, so this may not adhere to traditional Theravadin views.
To put it another way, some sections of Theravada (mainly early adherents) believe in quantum particles/a fundamental essence of reality, while later sections have abandoned this view to some extent. That said, I am not too knowledgeable on these topics, so I could be wrong.
a comment here like this should do I think
Do vajrayana and tantric Buddhism refer to the same sect? Tantra and Buddhism always seemed to me a contradiction in terms, but maybe that's the focus of it? Mediations on the contradictions of life and the interplay?
Yes, tantrayana is part of vajrayana.
honest question, does vajrayana consider sexual abuse beyond good or bad? is this normal for vajrayana?
Ofc bad for any yana or generally common sense.
@@hellboundtruck123 are yo aware of the latest abundance of reports of sexual abuse in tibetan buddhism? or how they use tibetan buddhist ideas wrongly to justify sexual abuse?
I feel like vajrayana at some point realized they are the most away from the teaching and they have twisted it so much they are slowly destroying their own tradition in an attempt to fix this. I cant explain why are they covering so much sexual abuse otherwise.
Venerable, as you must know the term Hinayana has derogatory connotations towards our Sangha brothers, to call their vehicle as Theravada is more respecful.
To reduce Japan to the Mahayana vehicle and Zen buddhism is it an incomplete view of the country, the culture and Buddhism, Sir. Japan has Vajrayana since 8th century, holding up to approximately 4.000 temples and monasterie of Shingon buddhism and around 3.000 temples and monasteries of Tendai buddhism, both called also Mikkyo (secret teachings), and non of them are simplistic or minimalist, rather all the opposite.
Also, regarding to the Mahayana, Japan also has Pure Land buddhism.
Vajrayana had a huge influence to shape japanese people and their culture, in fact the writing system of hiranaga and katanaka are attributed to Kobo Daishi, the same saint that are attribute that brought the tantrict buddhism from China to Japan before it became extinct there.
Westerners due to ignorance tend to assiociate Japan=Zen buddhism, but if you travel to the country and dive into the culture and their people you will see that the role that Mikkyo plays into the society is very active with many temples doing homa ceremonies of sacred fire every morning, and if you check historically who is the most famous monk or buddhist master in Japan you will find that is Kukai, somehow like the Jesus for japaneses, a mendicant Shingon monk.
This happens because the two first generations of westerners that came to Japan to study and practice buddhism found their door through Zen which is a lot more accesible, and therefore has had its subsequent expansion beyond the borders in the island of the rising sun.
I am a western shingon priest, from mount Koyasan, a holy mountain near to Osaka.
The zen does come from Japanese
@miguelatkinson yes, of course Sir. Nobody said the opposite. I've been living in Japan for several years and practiced in Zen temples aswell, therefore never could say that Zen (which is a great tradition) doesn't belong to Japan.
The thing is that westerners tend to portrait the buddhism in Japan as mainly Zen because is the school that went to western countries, but inside Japan, is quite different, Nichiren and Pure Land sects overall seems to be a lot more popular nowadays for japaneses, and because they are very ceremonial people the Shingon sect also plays a rol an influencia rol in dailylife because many temples do sacred fired ceremonias (homq) every single morning an lay people attend, like receiving blessings before going to work for example, if you go to the beautiful Gokukuji temple in Tokyo for example, you will see how Vajryana since 8th century had a non-stop activity.
This quote from p131 of the The Torch of Certainty, a "revered" vajrayana text by Jamgon Kongtrul says:
“From the sayings of the great Kagyudpas:
Everything this precious perfect guru does,
No matter what it is, is good.
All his deeds are excellent.
In his hands a butcher’s evil work
Is good, and benefits the beasts,
Inspired by compassion for them all.
When he unites in sex improperly,
His qualities increase, and fresh arise,
A sign that means and insight have been joined.
His lies by which we are deceived
Are just the skilful signs with which
He guides us on the freedom path.
When he steals, the stolen goods
Are changed into necessities
To ease the poverty of all.
When such a guru scolds,
His words are forceful mantras
To remove distress and obstacles.
His beatings are blessings,
Which yield both siddhis,
And gladden all devout and reverent men.”
so is sexual abuse the most tibetan practice or ..... wtf
Learn the basics first, why go into guru yoga when your basics are unclear, you'll always be confused if you don't take vajrayana step by step. It is also written that a disciple must examine his guru for 12 years before being totally sure of commitment.
@@hellboundtruck123 you are blaming the victim, how typical lol.
@@hellboundtruck12312 years not wasting my life for that long to consider a teacher that doesn't end up being a sex pest
How can you teach other people to Liberate them self if you are not Liberate yourself
The path and the teachings have been set by the tathagat himself and many enlightened beings after him. The person giving the teachings of the path is a qualified monk who studies the ways of the enlightened beings. Look to the source not the medium.
@hellboundtruck123 I was talking about how can you make a vow to lead over people to enlightenment if you postpone your enlightenment if it's a state of knowing you can't just unknown it they makes no sense at all you either no something or you don't 🤔