When Losang visited the University of Texas at El Paso, I took refuge in the Sanga with him and was named Losang Chodron. Thank you. Many blessings from me!
While I can never subscribe to religion as a concept, I am always very respectful and sincerely impressed when you come across a person who, not just by their astounding skill and talent, but by looking into their eyes as they speak, convey an inner peace that if were felt in equal measure by every man, woman, and child on earth, you can be certain that greed, anger, and ignorance would be distant concepts of a bygone era. ...but I am a hopelessly utopic sob sometimes.
***** I have very peaceful friends who are of Islamic faith... and I have had very close friendships with people raised in the Islamic faith that have left it as well who are equally peaceful... so yes- I am an equal opportunity witness.
***** you are a hateful person aren't you? Go ahead and strawman... if it makes you feel better. Maybe you can even be so extreme as to prove Islam's detractors right the way extremist Christians are doing such a great job of proving their detractor's right about them. Take your magical bullshit and shove it up your ass and we can all get down to being human. You need the fucking label and the mystique, not me.
I'd have to say I'm hopelessly optimistic too! There are a lot of us out there. Religious or not. It gives the world hope that the future can be a better place!
It is debatable whether Buddhism is actually a religion, or a system of evolving thought aiming at liberation, without any sacred dogmas. Religion perhaps, but far-far from Abrahamic religions (excluding now their almost totally outcast mystic branches).
Woww. So much focus, time, attention, and significance is put into this. And yet they completely erase it in the physical form. Giving it even more significance as a spiritual practice of presence and non-attachment. Incredible. 💖
the buddha is a fat golden statue sitting there with his eyes closed while starving poor people surround him and pray that he helps them relinquish the desire to eat. never could have imagined a more likeable guy : /
***** Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about. The OP was talking about the original Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. Gautama is the founder of Buddhism, he was very skinny. The fat Buddha that you're talking about was a guy in China named Budai.
***** The Buddah was not a statue. Specifically, if you're speaking of Siddhārtha Gautama, he also cast off all his worldly possessions and lived in extreme poverty, often starving. I'm not opinionated about it, just noting.
Keegan Cahoon ShonkyLegs apparently you both fail to grasp the real meaning of my comment. i don't blame you, irrational religious beliefs can do that to people.
i’d interpret this teaching with my thought bubble: i’ve seen most of the time the mandala got disassembled, it was done by the same person/group of monks who participated in the arts’ creation; it was made by themselves, destroyed _by themselves._ per my life experience, i have created lots of things in which i destroyed them myself, and that i let them go as i destroy them. if we’re into the sense of ‘attachment’, destroying the arts resonates with ‘letting go’, right? now, what if the act of destruction is condoned by someone else _outside_ of the person/group? like, what if the monks, if they have spectators, calls one or more randomly and ask them to destroy the mandala. it may be subtle, but from what i experience, having something destroyed by yourself vs by someone else would bring different impact in regards of ‘attachment’; if you destroy them yourself, you’re already on your terms to let go of those things since you’re fully aware you’re ending their existence. if it’s done by someone else? now, what if the mandala got destroyed by an unsuspected party, like a deus-ex-machina occurrence or literally something so random no one expects it? remember, the ‘attachment’ may be more about ‘the terms we’ve set a deal to ourselves’, because letting go of something you end _yourself_ is much easier than something that ends _on hands of someone else._ at least that’s my bit
Maybe not the 'ideal' measure line, but i mean when you're considering the kind of things the previously mentioned religions have been up to, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and the like are much more tolerable. At least that's my opinion.
they say in islam there is 4 parts of ourselves; 1 is the pig part which is the greedy, jealous side 2. is the dog side which is the anger side, that wild animal wants to harm and spill blood 3. side is the şeytan(devil) which is the sneaky part of you, lying cheating, fraud, and every other ugly behaviours you can think of 4. is the angel side which has the duty of realising itself and shutting off of the other bad parts so you can tame the animal parts of yourself to become more angelic and at the end more closer to god, because that's the only reason for everything (literally, everything) that was a very short summary of what I know about the subject. when I heard the first time I was very interested and I find it similar to the information in the video.
It's interesting that the opposite of the snake=hatred, boar=ignorance, and the pidgeon/rooster=greed are, respectively love, knowledge, and abundance. Welcome to the 21st century.
This symbolism is not different just for the general public, but also for the majority of the Buddhists because this is part of the tradition of the Tibetan Buddhists which is just a part of all the Buddhists, so it is normal to be ignorant about this even if you are Buddhist of other traditions
Very beautiful and expressive art indeed. The detail are so beautiful. On the philosophical side, I think that the three sources of pain can be made into two: ignorance and fear. Greed is caused by our fear of losing what we have, and anger/hate is caused by our ignorance and fear (of harm), ignorance about other people and things, and fear of what we are ignorant of lest it may harm us.
They act together, but are independent. Sometimes we know how losing something is gonna change our lives, yet we fear it. Fear is an instinct, it keeps us alive. I think of "ignorance" here not as not knowing, but more like delusion, or wrong knowledge.
I once dream with Buddha and I was guided by rooster 🐓 and also there was tiger 🐅 . I saw Buddha next to the Christ and with them there was a sage/mage.
We are all immortal in the background radiation of our universe, all information stored in the apparent horizons of black holes, recycled, refined and redistributed. Infinite simulations in a coded, digital multiverse. Information is never destroyed, and that is all we are.
Those Asians. That guy is nearly 90 and has less wrinkles than a white 50 year old. He is so talented. Great to see someone who is so old but so well spoken and keeping busy.
The top comment says: "No matter what religion you are, you can never really hate on buddha" Interesting, I distinctly remember a group of jihadi muslim in afghanistan blowing up a historically precious statue of buddha. But of course - and as always - those weren't TRUE muslims .... yes yes yes, and we are back to square one.
Not all things are interdependent, I can think of two that while coexisting in balance with one another, certainly do not exist in a harmonious, peaceful or synerginistic balance.
@@jockslap Since you're not him I'm going to let you know that if you were actually him you would not sell it.... You can't truly create one without understanding its meaning first and if you are more interested in money than the meaning it will show and no one will give you any legitimate credibility how many people will give you poor reviews.... Because it's not meant like that dumbass
I am sorry, but to understand the mandala or the wheel of life we must first look at the whole picture. Several versions are known. The original wheel of life is held by a beast with five skulls on its head, sharp teeth and claws and often references to fire around it. The animal looks very aggressive. The beast comes from the sky to the earth. The wheel is divided into four equal compartments and one larger one. There are circles around it and two central circles with often three symbols in the middle. There are many different explanations for this image. But the real message is that there is a celestial body that comes close to the sun and its planets every few thousand years. That planet circles our sun in an eccentric orbit. Of the seven passages of this planet 9, five cause a severe to disastrous natural disaster that we know as a flood. The five skulls refer to this and the middle head is the largest because it represents the worst disaster we know as "the end of times". These disasters create four civilizations that can only develop for a few thousand years and the fifth civilization lives longer, 10,800 years. This cycle occurs according to a fixed timetable, just as we can calculate the sunrise of any given day. In the center we see symbols that refer to constellations. They tell the orbit of this planet. To learn more about the flood cycle with a timeline and highly developed disappeared civilizations, you can read an e-book: Planet 9 = Nibiru. search: planet 9 roest
That's the reason you are against my GOD. We are not required to come back to this earth, unless we are being punished by GOD. And it makes me sad, that you don't believe in the GOD, I do. You're such good guys!!
I think I could listen to this man talk for hours.
I am so happy to have heard him speak. He's a real blessing. He sent me books and wrote me in prison. An amazing teacher
When Losang visited the University of Texas at El Paso, I took refuge in the Sanga with him and was named Losang Chodron. Thank you. Many blessings from me!
While I can never subscribe to religion as a concept, I am always very respectful and sincerely impressed when you come across a person who, not just by their astounding skill and talent, but by looking into their eyes as they speak, convey an inner peace that if were felt in equal measure by every man, woman, and child on earth, you can be certain that greed, anger, and ignorance would be distant concepts of a bygone era.
...but I am a hopelessly utopic sob sometimes.
Well put
*****
I have very peaceful friends who are of Islamic faith... and I have had very close friendships with people raised in the Islamic faith that have left it as well who are equally peaceful... so yes- I am an equal opportunity witness.
*****
you are a hateful person aren't you? Go ahead and strawman... if it makes you feel better. Maybe you can even be so extreme as to prove Islam's detractors right the way extremist Christians are doing such a great job of proving their detractor's right about them. Take your magical bullshit and shove it up your ass and we can all get down to being human. You need the fucking label and the mystique, not me.
I'd have to say I'm hopelessly optimistic too!
There are a lot of us out there. Religious or not. It gives the world hope that the future can be a better place!
It is debatable whether Buddhism is actually a religion, or a system of evolving thought aiming at liberation, without any sacred dogmas.
Religion perhaps, but far-far from Abrahamic religions (excluding now their almost totally outcast mystic branches).
Woww. So much focus, time, attention, and significance is put into this. And yet they completely erase it in the physical form. Giving it even more significance as a spiritual practice of presence and non-attachment. Incredible. 💖
No matter what religion you are, you can never really hate on buddha
If you were a part of any religion that was even close to The Truth, it would be against your beliefs to hate on anyone.
the buddha is a fat golden statue sitting there with his eyes closed while starving poor people surround him and pray that he helps them relinquish the desire to eat.
never could have imagined a more likeable guy : /
***** Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about. The OP was talking about the original Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. Gautama is the founder of Buddhism, he was very skinny. The fat Buddha that you're talking about was a guy in China named Budai.
***** The Buddah was not a statue. Specifically, if you're speaking of Siddhārtha Gautama, he also cast off all his worldly possessions and lived in extreme poverty, often starving.
I'm not opinionated about it, just noting.
Keegan Cahoon ShonkyLegs
apparently you both fail to grasp the real meaning of my comment. i don't blame you, irrational religious beliefs can do that to people.
Well I learn something new every day. This is the best thing I have learned.
Very interesting set of ideas. I've always quite enjoyed Buddhist philosophy, even though I'm an atheist.
I enjoyed this a lot, big thanks to Venerable Lama Losang Samten! you have enlightened my morning with understanding.
Greed, hate and delusion. These are considered the three poisons in buddha dharma. Thanks for sharing this big think!
Thank you Lama Losang Samten.
Beautiful Buddhist philosophy! 🙏
i’d interpret this teaching with my thought bubble:
i’ve seen most of the time the mandala got disassembled, it was done by the same person/group of monks who participated in the arts’ creation; it was made by themselves, destroyed _by themselves._
per my life experience, i have created lots of things in which i destroyed them myself, and that i let them go as i destroy them. if we’re into the sense of ‘attachment’, destroying the arts resonates with ‘letting go’, right?
now, what if the act of destruction is condoned by someone else _outside_ of the person/group? like, what if the monks, if they have spectators, calls one or more randomly and ask them to destroy the mandala.
it may be subtle, but from what i experience, having something destroyed by yourself vs by someone else would bring different impact in regards of ‘attachment’; if you destroy them yourself, you’re already on your terms to let go of those things since you’re fully aware you’re ending their existence. if it’s done by someone else?
now, what if the mandala got destroyed by an unsuspected party, like a deus-ex-machina occurrence or literally something so random no one expects it? remember, the ‘attachment’ may be more about ‘the terms we’ve set a deal to ourselves’, because letting go of something you end _yourself_ is much easier than something that ends _on hands of someone else._ at least that’s my bit
If i wasn't a Atheist, I'd be a Buddhist. The only religion other than Confucianism that has my respect.
Daoism? Pantheism?
I'm cool with any peaceful religion.
Nah, Christians, Muslims, and Islam don't know how to act.
When's the last time you heard of a Buddhist blowing up a building over religious views on the news.
Maybe not the 'ideal' measure line, but i mean when you're considering the kind of things the previously mentioned religions have been up to, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and the like are much more tolerable. At least that's my opinion.
Beautiful message. Please give us more. Thank You
they say in islam there is 4 parts of ourselves;
1 is the pig part which is the greedy, jealous side
2. is the dog side which is the anger side, that wild animal wants to harm and spill blood
3. side is the şeytan(devil) which is the sneaky part of you, lying cheating, fraud, and every other ugly behaviours you can think of
4. is the angel side which has the duty of realising itself and shutting off of the other bad parts so you can tame the animal parts of yourself to become more angelic and at the end more closer to god, because that's the only reason for everything (literally, everything)
that was a very short summary of what I know about the subject. when I heard the first time I was very interested and I find it similar to the information in the video.
It's interesting that the opposite of the snake=hatred, boar=ignorance, and the pidgeon/rooster=greed are, respectively love, knowledge, and abundance. Welcome to the 21st century.
This symbolism is not different just for the general public, but also for the majority of the Buddhists because this is part of the tradition of the Tibetan Buddhists which is just a part of all the Buddhists, so it is normal to be ignorant about this even if you are Buddhist of other traditions
Thanks again to the big think..
Very beautiful and expressive art indeed. The detail are so beautiful.
On the philosophical side, I think that the three sources of pain can be made into two: ignorance and fear. Greed is caused by our fear of losing what we have, and anger/hate is caused by our ignorance and fear (of harm), ignorance about other people and things, and fear of what we are ignorant of lest it may harm us.
They act together, but are independent. Sometimes we know how losing something is gonna change our lives, yet we fear it. Fear is an instinct, it keeps us alive. I think of "ignorance" here not as not knowing, but more like delusion, or wrong knowledge.
Root of the three is just one, ignorance. But ignorance of what? Ignorance of interdependence and subsequently compassion.
I like the second one very nice.
Im a native from cananda, the medicine wheel is thee same colo(u)rs
Stunning...
I once dream with Buddha and I was guided by rooster 🐓 and also there was tiger 🐅 . I saw Buddha next to the Christ and with them there was a sage/mage.
We are all immortal in the background radiation of our universe, all information stored in the apparent horizons of black holes, recycled, refined and redistributed. Infinite simulations in a coded, digital multiverse. Information is never destroyed, and that is all we are.
Excellent.
love it!
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wow
super
Buddha
Buddhisem
Madnala
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❤
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Amazing! :]
wow, just wow.
If I'm not wrong that kalachkra sand mandala at the end took more or less 18 days to complete!!
Vandami Bhante 🙏Bows🙏
How to Conquer Anger for self???
That snake did bite Me hard though...suggest Anti Venom for the same please!?!
I'm a pig zodiac, hypnotise by a rooster lady, and then hated by the snake
me too :o ... i'm a pig zodiac , my girlfriend is a rooster lady and she loves kanye west, kanye west is a snake as zodiak... and I hate kanye west
Those Asians. That guy is nearly 90 and has less wrinkles than a white 50 year old. He is so talented. Great to see someone who is so old but so well spoken and keeping busy.
oh, I rewatched it. He was 5 in 1959. Oops, no way he is 88. I heard him wrong the 1st time I watched.
The top comment says: "No matter what religion you are, you can never really hate on buddha"
Interesting, I distinctly remember a group of jihadi muslim in afghanistan blowing up a historically precious statue of buddha.
But of course - and as always - those weren't TRUE muslims .... yes yes yes, and we are back to square one.
Not all things are interdependent, I can think of two that while coexisting in balance with one another, certainly do not exist in a harmonious, peaceful or synerginistic balance.
Even balance is dependent. without one is 50 and other is 50 it cannot be on balance..
balance doesn't necessarily imply equality, only perpetuity.
Could anyone tell me the method of painting he was using?
Sand, not paint.
Lo Sang Somthin
they usually destroy them after making them too dont they?
Yes they do. In the meaning of not to get emotionally attached to someone or something.
@@jockslap
Since you're not him I'm going to let you know that if you were actually him you would not sell it....
You can't truly create one without understanding its meaning first and if you are more interested in money than the meaning it will show and no one will give you any legitimate credibility how many people will give you poor reviews....
Because it's not meant like that dumbass
@@itzm3dora it also symbolises..that impermanence is only law of nature...the ultimate truth
When I first heard his name I thought he said "My name is hooked on something"
I am sorry, but to understand the mandala or the wheel of life we must first look at the whole picture. Several versions are known. The original wheel of life is held by a beast with five skulls on its head, sharp teeth and claws and often references to fire around it. The animal looks very aggressive. The beast comes from the sky to the earth. The wheel is divided into four equal compartments and one larger one. There are circles around it and two central circles with often three symbols in the middle. There are many different explanations for this image. But the real message is that there is a celestial body that comes close to the sun and its planets every few thousand years. That planet circles our sun in an eccentric orbit. Of the seven passages of this planet 9, five cause a severe to disastrous natural disaster that we know as a flood. The five skulls refer to this and the middle head is the largest because it represents the worst disaster we know as "the end of times". These disasters create four civilizations that can only develop for a few thousand years and the fifth civilization lives longer, 10,800 years. This cycle occurs according to a fixed timetable, just as we can calculate the sunrise of any given day. In the center we see symbols that refer to constellations. They tell the orbit of this planet. To learn more about the flood cycle with a timeline and highly developed disappeared civilizations, you can read an e-book: Planet 9 = Nibiru. search: planet 9 roest
He needs to teach people to pray to Jesus ! They need to tell the gospel through mandalas .
😑
A white pigeon is called a dove...
doesn't seem like he is Losang Samten :)
to me, the pig should represent greed more. ive worked with pigs. they can never have enough food and they will literally run you down to get it
Pig is greed
😍😍😍
What do you do if you see your god walking down the street?
Kill him!
I'd ask him to beam me up the street.
Let's hope he doesn't sneeze.
Cognitive & Sentient
"MANDALA ARTIST", mandalas are made by the monks.
I have a 4th evil. Can anyone think of an animal representing dogma?
Probably the Monkey, or a dog which could represent blind faith.
to me, the pig symbolize's greed.
That's the reason you are against my GOD. We are not required to come back to this earth, unless we are being punished by GOD. And it makes me sad, that you don't believe in the GOD, I do. You're such good guys!!
Your Santa Claus is a bit different indeed.
Beautiful message. Please give us more. Thank You