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Hindus: "Don't be fooled. They're all just incarnations of Lord Vishnu, Buddha, Jesus, Mo..."
Alan Watts: Don't be fooled
O, Great Lama, if our Vajrayana Dharma is Mahayana, is it also Sanatan Dharma (Hindu)? - OK.
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Chanda, what is that, a human or deva? - He is a shramana, a truth seeker, a wandering ascetic.
(DaQuote) May 12, 2024: What is "M-Buddhism"? We abbreviated Mahayana Buddhism, the Dharma co-opted by the Brahmins in India and transformed into a kind of Vedic Brahminism (now called Hinduism), which the historical Buddha spent so much time debunking, rejecting, and correcting. So Buddhism and Hinduism today share many terms and concepts, but they do not mean the same thing and are defined separately. People hear "karma" and think they know what the Buddha meant by this term or nirvana or moksha. Hindus mean one thing, the Buddha another. Conflating them for the sake of convenience will lead to trouble and paradoxical statements like it's all woo-woo and nonsense. It does make sense. But it is a teaching for the wise (who go from hearing and faith to direct wisdom).
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Buddhists need to become Hindus - Shankara
The Buddha was not a Hindu, not only because there was no "Hinduism" yet but because the old time Vedic religion did not align with what he had realized and was teaching as the path to liberation (moksha). Many terms and ideas are the same as other Dharmic traditions, but they are given a new meaning by the Buddha. For instance, whereas Brahmins (Hindus) would say that "liberation" is rebirth in the company of Brahma or Brahman, the Buddha redefined it as the end of all rebirth in this very life (here and now not only hereafter) with the realization of nirvana. Where is nirvana? It is not like that and cannot be correctly conceptualized as a place where one goes. Rather, it is the deconstruction of all the strata of the illusion (maya) that the ego is separate and enduring all of this suffering. However, to say it this way introduces the misguided idea (wrong view) that if the ego (self, soul, personality, being, atman) is not separate, it must therefore be One (united, identical with the supersoul, oversoul, the ocean of Brahman).
Let's ask Mahavira, the naked shramana.
It is not, but perhaps this is a less bad way to think about it. But consider this: Point to Brahman. Let's say you pointed at space in the zenith or north. Now imagine that everything that passes away goes to be in the company of Brahman (unless it has a load of bad karma and is going elsewhere). Now imagine a great fire. And that fire is quenched. When the fire goes off, where does it go? Of course, it doesn't "go" anywhere. It simply goes out. But out implies an in, so it must carry on somewhere else, we say. It must go to Oblivion, to the great Void, to Emptiness. These are all poetic, but it is not this way. It simply goes out because what it was wasn't a separate flame existing independently as it and observers of it imagined (which is an illusion) in their wrong view. It existed utterly dependent and relying on its impersonal factors: heat, wick, fuel, oxygen, and the mysterious process-of-combustion (analogous to our Five Aggregates clung to as self).
Hindu Gods became Buddhas
Let's let the much more interesting and enchanting translator of Eastern philosophy, the British-born Californian Alan Watts, a Zen practitioner and Taoist post-Anglican preacher put his spin (and stank) on it. Watts is extraordinary for making sensible the Dharmas of Buddhism and Hinduism to Westerners with all of our assumptions. He did so early even before the 1960s he helped usher in in San Francisco. He was a groundbreaking speaker and writer.
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[Truck question: By the constraints of the language, we say "our" Five Aggregates, as if self is the owner of the aggregates (heaps, piles of form, feelings, perceptions, formations, and consciousnesses). Who is the "our," who the owner of these karmas (deeds) and aggregates (heaps)? It must be the soul/self (the Atman)! And Atman is one with Brahman (the reality behind the illusion) and need only realize this -- stop playing hide 'n seek -- and again merge like a separate drop of water returning to the vast ocean from which it came. It is all advaita (non-dual)!
Answer: That's all beautiful, and think of it that way if you must, but the impersonal aggregates belong to themselves not to an us, not to a self or soul: Form (the "Four Great Elements," the maha-bhuta, thedhatus analyzed) forms and belongs to form. [What we call the "body," form, is ultimately composed of the Four Great Elements, which are not things but characteristics of materiality, which is composed of particles or rupa-kalapas, and this collective "form" belongs to form.] Feelings feel and belong to feeling. Perception perceives and belongs to perception. Mental formations [50 processes lumped together and usually called impulsions or volitions, which is but one item in this category] form and belong to mental formations. [Interestingly, feelings, perceptions, and consciousness are also mental formations but are so important that they are singled out into their own categories, so what we have are form and formations or body and mind as the processes clung to as "self."] And, most intriguingly, consciousness is conscious and belongs to consciousness, not to "us," not to an independently existing "soul" or "self."
To really understand this honest question, "Who is the watcher, the knower, the doer, the experiencer of the results of deeds?" it is essential to come at the question from the understanding that all of these things are dependently arisen and therefore to understand them one must understand Dependent Origination. Whenever anyone pressed the Buddha with such questions, really trying to understand what all of this is that is experienced in life, the Buddha gently explained how it was on account of not knowing, not seeing, not understanding (the principle of) Dependent Origination that we travel and endure this illusion, this endless round (samsara) of rebirth and suffering. But knowing and seeing it, the perplexity is resolved. To see the Buddha (the Awakened One) is to see Dependent Origination and vice versa.]
Speaker: Alan Watts (alanwatts.org, alanwatts.com) via Daquote (video); explained by Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
How to do a magical mudra (physical gesture) to achieve anything we want
(Dhieyo) Sept. 21, 2021: What is a mudra? It is a hand or body gesture with intention behind it to produce a result. It can therefore be a kind of magic.
Discover the power of mudra – hand gestures in Buddhist art
(Sotheby's) The Buddha used many mudras, each with a specific and well understood meaning. They often seem to be describing what he was doing while he sat in silence. Others indicated his activities in statues, iconographic depictions of him in his life, such as teaching, dispelling fear, resting in stillness (concentration, samadhi), or offering a blessing.
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(@devidaughter7782) Thank you for the beautiful images and detailed descriptions! One note: it's less pejorative to say "oral tradition cultures" rather than "preliterate" as the latter term implies that all societies will develop written languages. Many rich and wonderful Indigenous cultures around the world have remained oral traditions; this does not imply that they are "less developed" or inferior in any way. In fact, their wisdom has remained relational, fluid, and alive in contrast to the limitations that have come with written texts. It is important for us to use language that reflects a respectful acknowledgement that rich wisdom traditions occur in both oral and written traditions.
How to attract anyone with Three-Eyed Mudra even the gods and goddesses!
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On Sunday evenings in West Los Angeles, we now have a reopened InsightLA meditation center.
It's on Olympic near 14th Street in Santa Monica with free street parking. After a guided sit in a spacious, sparkling clean room of wooden floors in good company, there are introductions, a Dharma talk, and then open discussion. It's well attended in person and online via Zoom (by donation).
Who needs a guide to spiritual awakening?
Tonight, the Dharma topic with Eileen Ybarra was Ti-Sarana or the "Three Refuges."
Now, "refuge" is a terrible translation of sarana, which really means "guide" or "guidance." When Early Buddhists and Theravada tradition practitioners today repeat the lines
Buddham saranam gacchami. "I go for guidance to the Buddha."
Dhamman saranam gacchami. "I go for guidance to the Dharma."
Sanghan saranam gacchami. "I go for guidance to the Sangha."
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Colonel Henry Olcott, one of the first Americans to formally become a Buddhist more than a century ago, repeated this formula. But he understood that the 19th century translation was very faulty. Monks confirmed that but were not too concerned with what people wanted to call it in English.
Olcott emphasized how misleading it was to use "refuge" when language, linguistic, and Buddhist philosophy all clearly pointed toward "guidance."
Just as the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha are the Three Jewels or Gems, they are also the Three Guides. They point the way to enlightenment and the real refuge from all suffering, which is nirvana.
Who is the Buddha? It for us at this time is the historical figure of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha Gautama, the "Awakened One," more than 26 centuries ago. He awakened under the bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, Bihar (Enlightenment Grove, Vihara, names based on what happened to him there).
No one saves us but ourselves,
No one can and no one may;
We ourselves must walk the Path;
Buddhas only point the Way.
Does Gisele Bundchen have insight? Probably not because her biggest fan did not see fit to teach the world and help us. But Gisele does have an app.
Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen Bradford, Wisdom Quarterly; Eileen Ybarra (guided meditation instruction), Insight Los Angeles (insightla.org)
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You can wake up someone who's only pretending to be asleep, sheep on the way to slaughter..
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Spiritual Coach Ronny Hatchwell joins news anchor Emily Frances, the gesticulating beauty. What if the nightly news told us things this every night? Maybe in the future it will. They might have to be sensationalist for the sake of ratings and get some details wrong, but it'd be a start. We need the truth, and it would be good if the news could provide it. The third eye or dibba cakkhu in Buddhism (Sanskrit divya drishtiof the ajnachakra, "the divine perception of the third eye") is not the "seat of the soul," which is on the heart. But the third eye is the center of Buddhist psychic powers ("direct knowledges") or abhinnas (siddhis) like clairvoyance. Trending: i24news English News with Emily Frances.
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(1nails1) The Vatican knows [because] they stole and ransacked things out of Egypt and said [they were] was their discoveries.
How to Let go of Fear and Release Karma: Three Magic Words
Dolores Cannon talks about how to let go of fear and release karma [past deeds bound up with their present and future results] an interview for the movie 3 Magic Words (3magicwordsmovie.com).
Dolores Cannon is a past life regression hypnotherapist
and psychic researcher, who records "lost" knowledge. She has been
involved with hypnosis for 40 years and past-life
therapy and regression work for 30 years. She
developed a unique technique, which has enabled her to gain...taking clients into the deepest level of trance --
into a kind of "universal consciousness." During this state, she gleans
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Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Nate W., Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Empire of the Sun
Dreamy, whip-creamy scene from "Varsity Blues" has one thing better to offer (MTV).
But most Buddhists have sex! It's just the monastics who are celibate. Ask anyone.
This song inspired me to be a Buddhist for a day, something I always wanted to try anyway. Imagine me a Zen Master, a Shaolin kung fu drop kicker, a night marketeer with all the cool outfits. And there's probably something to learn, but let's not let that get in the way of the fun to be had.
What does it take to be a "Buddhist"?
Between East and West: Scythian Buddha
What does it take even for a minute? There are the Five Precepts, saying "om" a lot or listening to the sound of one hand clapping to have an insight into the dependently-originated nature of all things, and there's going for guidance to the Three Jewels.
Now what are these jewels or gems, guides, or sources of deepest wisdom?
(1) There's the Buddha, of course. His name is Shakyamuni, "Prince Siddhartha Gautama of the Shakya/Scythian Clan" at birth.
(2) There's what he taught, which gets called the Dharma, and (3) there's the Community of beings (the Arya-Sangha) who have become enlightened following the Dharma rediscovered and made known by the Buddha, the Awakened One.
Sounds good because they should have something to say about life, the universe, and everything. Too bad Douglas Adams is no longer here to ask them.
The Five Precepts
Refrain for the sake of ourselves and others from taking the life of living beings or getting anyone else to take it.
Refrain from taking what is not given or encouraging anyone else to take it.
Refrain from sexual misconduct (engaging in intercourse with the 10 "off-limits" persons) or prompting anyone else into misconduct.
Refrain from consuming intoxicants that occasion heedlessness (in other words, getting so high that one breaks any of the previous four precepts) or contributing to anyone else's delinquency in this regard.
Siddhartha, Bimba get married.
Is that really them? I already refrain from those, well, from most of those. But I don't like violating any of them. Ah, if only a life of quiet meditation, ecstatic states, and profound calm could release me of ever even bending those guidelines for a good life!
What else? What about a special ceremony or hazing? Not necessary. But Westerners love an induction. If so, ask a local monastic to perform something. They'll do it, and they may even throw in a special certificate with your new Dharma name, like "Ananda," "Khema," or "Grasshopper." Whatever inspires you.
What to wear? Buddhist closets
Only one thing remains, the outfit. Now, it turns out both Buddhist monks and nuns say anyone can practice Buddhism in street clothes. Pshaw! What's the fun in that. I need a robe or a toga, a batik sarong, at least a hat or a t-shirt or one of those saffron-colored little vest. Oh-yeah, that will be so cool! One time "Dawson" (James Van Der Beek) of Dawson's Creek tried to go from TV to the big screen in some Texas high school football movie ("Varsity Blues").
Li'l bro "Varsity Blues"
He was all right, nothing great, not nearly so interesting without that Katie Holmes-Cruise girl chasing him all the time (but a better blonde replaces Katie). But his little brother in it IS great: he's always searching for a better religion, trying them all on for size. In one scene, he goes Malcolm X-syle Muslim and is asked about sex. Blasphemy, but funny. This brother was a side gag, but the movie would have been much more interesting if it were just about him or if they had made a sequel.
What are Empire of the Sun even talking about in this song with an accompanying video shot in Chinatown?
But what about meditation? (Jason Headley) Have trouble sitting in silence? This might help. Might not. But it's a start. After all, "zen" (Japanese for jhana) means "deeply absorbed meditative state." WARNING: Profanity!
The "Scythian" (Shakyian) Clan of Afghanistan on the Silk Road built the world's largest Buddhist statues in honor of their prince who renounced and became the Buddha (LR).
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LYRICS: "Walking On A Dream"
Walking on a dream
How can I explain
Talking to myself
Will I see again
We are always running for the thrill of it, thrill of it
Always pushing up the hill searching for the thrill of it
On and on and on we are calling out and out again
Never looking down I'm just in awe of what's in front of me
Is it real now
When two people become one
I can feel it
When two people become one
Thought I'd never see
The love you found in me
Now it's changing all the time
Living in a rhythm where the minutes [are] working overtime
We are always running for the thrill of it, thrill of it
Always pushing up the hill searching for the thrill of it
On and on and on we are calling out and out again
Never looking down I'm just in awe of what's in front of me
Is it real now
When two people become one
I can feel it
When two people become one
Is it real now
When two people become one
I can feel it
When two people become one
Catch me I'm falling down
Catch me I'm falling down
Don't stop just keep going on
I'm your shoulder [to] lean upon
So come on deliver from inside
All we got is tonight that is right 'till first light...
(Lissie) Cover of Kid Cudi's all-American search for elusive happiness
There's one more question to answer before one embarks on the Buddhist path to complete freedom: Why? Well, if complete freedom isn't enough of a reason, then the best reason to pursue it is the pursuit of happiness -- real, lasting happiness that does not disappoint like hedonism, anger, and delusion.
Sex, guns, football can wait till tomorrow.
The "Buddha" was not born a buddha, a supremely awakened teacher, but a man, a rich prince. He indulged for years in refinement, luxuries, and sensuality. Before he knew ANY spiritual thing, he knew this: sensual craving and desire is fraught with disappointments, distress, and a lack of any lasting sense of fulfillment, but it is full of many negatives. It enslaves us, leads us down roads of bad karma to pay in consequences later, and drives us in all the things we do not like... That's a very good reason to pursue being a Buddhist for a day.
Bhante G., Abbot of Bhavana Society, The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation
...The highest respect goes to those monastics who possess not only liberation in both ways but the six abhiรฑรฑas [magical powers] or "super-knowledges," which are the exercise of:
psychic powers
the divine ear
the ability to read the minds of others
the recollection of past lives
knowledge of the death and rebirth of beings
knowledge of final liberation.
The Buddha declares that a monastic endowed with the six abhiรฑรฑas [although the exact same thing is said of all arhats] is worthy of gifts and hospitality, worthy of offerings and reverential salutations, a supreme field of merit for the world (A.iii,280-81).
In the period after the Buddha's demise, what qualified a monastic to give guidance to others was endowment with [these] qualities:
moral virtue
learning
contentment
mastery over the four jhanas (absorptions)
the five mundane abhiรฑรฑas (superpowers)
attainment of the cankerless liberation of mind
liberation by wisdom (M.iii,11-12).
Perhaps it was because he was extolled by the Buddha for his facility in the meditative attainments and the abhiรฑรฑas that the Venerable Maha Kassapa assumed the presidency of the First Buddhist Council held in Rajagaha [modern Rajgir, India] after the Buddha's passing away.
The graduation in the veneration given to arhats on the basis of their mundane spiritual achievements implies something about the value system of early Buddhism that is not often recognized. It suggests that while final liberation may be the ultimate and most important value, it is not the sole value even in the spiritual domain.
Alongside it, as embellishments rather than alternatives, stand mastery over the range of the mind and mastery over the sphere of the knowable. The first is accomplished by the attainment of the eight mundane jhanas, the second by the attainment of the abhiรฑรฑas.
Together, final liberation adorned with this twofold mastery is esteemed as the highest and most desirable way of actualizing the ultimate goal. See full book>>
Contrasting temple styles, elegant Buddhist pagoda and the intricate complexity of a Hindu temple replete with gods and mythological themes (malaysia.com).
Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, who was [allegedly] born in Nepal, and lived and taught in the northeastern region of the Indian subcontinent. The Buddha's teaching, Buddhism, originated in what is now Bihar, India during the reign of Maurya Empire.
Since Buddhism and Hinduism originated in ancient India, they share many similarities. Buddhism, however, became a world religion, whereas Hinduism has largely stayed on the subcontinent. The Buddha is mentioned in several of the Puranas (ancient Hindu religious texts), and some Buddhist teachings appear to have been formulated responding to ideas contained in the early Upanishads.
It came to be taught in Hinduism, in many Puranas, that the Buddha must be an incarnation of Vishnu (a Hindu god) with the purpose of deluding demons (yakkhas) or mankind about the true Vedic Dharma.
Some striking similarities between the two religions are given below:
Ahimsa: a Sanskrit word meaning "non-violence" (non-harming) and respect for all life.
Buddha’s dialog of ahimsa in the Lesser Exposition on Karma Discourse (CulakammavibhangaSutta) was a definitive move against the traditional [cruel animal] sacrificial Vedic rituals of Hindu culture. However, the Upanishadic literature in Hinduism was often critical of the Vedic ritual and emphasized the internal meaning and symbolism of the sacrifice rather than its literal enactment. Ahimsa doctrine was later developed in the Hindu Yajurveda under the Brahmanical culture.
Karma: meaning one's deeds or actions or activity, which is a central theme of Buddhist teachings.
It is believed that this idea is derived from Hinduism. However, there are apparent inconsistencies regarding this. The Buddhist doctrine of karma is based on the Buddha's direct mystical observations, rather than literary derivations. Hindu seers had their interpretations, which the Buddha seems to have expanded on, clarified, and added to.
Dharma: this term means "religious or ethical duty"
Both Buddhism and Hinduism believe that beings that live in harmony with dharma precede on towards moksha or nirvana (liberation).
Despite the similarities between the two religions, the major differences are:
God: The Buddha set an important trend of non-theism [different from atheism] by denying the notion of an omnipotent God.
According to Buddhism, there are gods but a higher reality, but not an ultimate creator God beyond the law of karma or rebirth. Mankind's need for protection and agency [not to mention Buddhist devas or Greek-style demigods], which are psychologically deep-rooted, prompts a need for this belief. However, Hinduism strongly believes in the existence of an ultimate creator God [Brahman] and also believes that gods are reborn as humans to save the earth (avatars or "messiahs").
Vedas: these Holy Scriptures are followed in Hinduism to acquire the divine Three-Knowledges of life.
Unlike Hinduism, Buddhists believe that Three-Knowledges should be achieved through the process of enlightenment, which the Buddha achieved in the three watches of the night on the night of his Great Enlightenment (mahabodhi). The Three-Knowledges are memory of past lives, seeing the rebirth of others according to their karma, and complete intuitive penetration of the Four Noble Truths and the destruction of spiritual defilements, which fester in the mind/heart (citta) and keep it obscured, defiled, and unenlightened. (This third knowledge is a composite one).
The Four Noble Truths are deep and profound. Understanding them fully (particularly the fourth) is the essence of Buddhist enlightenment. This understanding is not intellectual, however, but rather thorough-going, psychological, and even mystical.
PROBLEM: All planes of existence are ultimately bound up with uneasiness (dukkha) in one way or another.
CAUSE: This uneasiness is caused by cravings and attachments of all kinds.
SOLUTION: This uneasiness ends when craving ends, when one is free of craving, which is achieved by knowledge-and-vision of nirvana, which means reaching the ultimate liberated state of enlightenment (bodhi).
PATH: Reaching this liberated state is achieved by following the Path rediscovered and laid out by the Buddha.
It is apparent that later Indian religious thought was in turn influenced by Buddhism's new interpretations and novel ideas. The new religion gained prominence on the Indian subcontinent at one time eclipsing all other traditions in India before Hinduism assimilated many of its ideas and teachings and became the de facto state religion (with considerable Islamic and other minorities but almost no Buddhists independent of Hinduism).
Buddhism was eclipsed by a Hindu renaissance and Islam onslaughts in the 13th Century. It then flourished beyond India -- Theravada in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian nations; Vajrayana/Lamaism in the Himalayas (Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, etc.); and Mahayana in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, etc.).
Hinduism and Buddhism now coexist harmoniously in the world and are followed, at least in name, by hundreds of millions of adherents. Buddhism in India survived and is still practiced -- particularly in the Himalayan region such as Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and in the east in what is now Muslim dominated Bangladesh.
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Since Buddhism and Hinduism originated in ancient India, they share many similarities. Buddhism, however, became a world religion, whereas Hinduism has largely stayed on the subcontinent. The Buddha is mentioned in several of the Puranas (ancient Hindu religious texts), and some Buddhist teachings appear to have been formulated responding to ideas contained in the early Upanishads. 
Unlike Hinduism, Buddhists believe that Three-Knowledges should be achieved through the process of enlightenment, which the Buddha achieved in the three watches of the night on the night of his Great Enlightenment (mahabodhi). The Three-Knowledges are memory of past lives, seeing the rebirth of others according to their karma, and complete intuitive penetration of the Four Noble Truths and the destruction of spiritual defilements, which fester in the mind/heart (citta) and keep it obscured, defiled, and unenlightened. (This third knowledge is a composite one).
