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Gotama Siddhartha – A prince born of a silver spoon near the Himalaya mountains.
The passage for Today’s talk is from Majjhima Nikaya as thus. “ I had three palaces, one for the rainy season, one for the winter, and one for the summer. I lived in the rains’ palace for the four months of the rainy season, enjoying myself with musicians, none of whom were men, and I…
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Refuge in the Sangha: The faith in the people as the evidence that enlightenment is real.
The passage for Today’s talk is from Anguttara Nikaya. “He acquires unwavering confidence in the Sangha thus: ‘The Sangha of the Blessed One’s disciples is practising the good way, practising the straight way, practising the true way, practising the proper way, that is, the four pairs of persons, the eight types of individuals; this Sangha…
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Refuge in the Dhamma – The faith in the cosmic truth open to us.
The passage for today’s gathering is from Majjima Nikaya 26.Ariyapariyesana Sutta. “I considered: ‘This Dhamma that I have attained is profound, hard to see and hard to understand, peaceful and sublime, unattainable by mere reasoning, subtle, to be experienced by the wise. But this generation delights in attachment, takes delight in attachment, rejoices in the…
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Buddhist Faith – Be honest, humble, and open and do not believe without thinking carefully.
“The brahmins honor this not only out of faith, Master Gotama. They also honor it as oral tradition.” “Bhāradvāja, first you took your stand on faith, now you speak of oral tradition. There are five things, Bhāradvāja, that may turn out in two different ways here and now. What five? Faith, approval, oral tradition, reasoned…
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No God, but Many Gods in Buddhism
“And while this discourse was being spoken, there arose in “the Venerable Kondañña the dust-free, stainless vision of the Dhamma: “Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.” And when the Wheel of the Dhamma had been set in motion by the Blessed One, the earth-dwelling devas raised a cry: “At Bārāṇasī, in…
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