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Posts tagged with "Buddhahood"
Apr. 20 | The thoroughly unenlightened
manifest confused rebirths
which further confuse themselves.
- Stonepeace
There is a phenomenon called ‘confusion from separation (from previous lives) by death’ (隔阴之迷), which is the forgetting of the past...
Apr. 6 | 法轮未转,
食轮先转.
[Before] the wheel of the Dharma has yet to turn,
the wheel of [hunger for] food first turns.
- Buddhist Saying
Once, Sakra, the king of the devas, after futile efforts of getting the answers to some questions at a meeting...
Aug. 10 | Question: I came across this in a Dharma book - ‘Great Bodhisattvas do not think they have anything specific to accomplish. They do not have the idea that they must help sentient beings; rather, they naturally respond to others…’ Does this...
Aug. 3 | Although there are immeasurable Buddhas,
there is only one goal of Buddhahood attained by them,
and one complete Dharma based on Bodhicitta realised.
- Stonepeace
A young student in a Dharma class asked me three interesting questions… [1] Why are...
Jun. 14 | Compassion is the root
[beginning] of the Buddha path.
[the path to Buddhahood].
- Nagarjuna (The Treatise on Perfection of Wisdom)
There is this adage… To ‘be good for goodness’ sake’; instead of being good for pleasing anyone...
May. 2 | Question: What is lasting and stable happiness? How does one knows if one has reached this stage?
Answer: Lasting and stable happiness is best embodied and expressed by the Buddha. It is the peaceful and blissful state of mind that is unperturbed by...
Mar. 28 | You and all other beings, should have Faith
in this ‘Sutra Praised For Its Inconceivable Merits,
As Mindfully Protected By All Buddhas’.
(汝等众生，当信是称赞不可思议功德，一切诸佛所护念经)
- Amitabha Sutra (The Buddha)
In...
Mar. 21 | The supreme path to Buddhahood
includes supreme guidance of others
to the same supreme goal.
- Stonepeace
He who has realised Truth, Nirvana, is the happiest being in the world. He is free from all ‘complexes’ and obsessions, the worries and troubles...
Jan. 3 | Amita[bha] Buddha is
the great king who presides over Pure Land,
the great boatman who ferries beings across, and
the great shepherd who protects beings on the way.
- Anonone
The Courage of a King: A king’s first priority is to overcome all his...
Dec. 6 | Amituofo’s Pure Land, being the best Dharma school in the universe,
presided by the best principal (Amituofo) and teachers (Bodhisattvas),
guarantees graduation of its inhabitants towards Buddhahood.
- Stonepeace
What is the wish for rebirth in...
Oct. 19 | How truly good can Parinirvana be
if it is to be truly gone for ‘good’?
- Stonepeace
According to the lower schools of Buddhist thought, when a being, like Sakyamuni Buddha, attains mahaparinirvana and passes away, he ceases to exist, there is no...
Sep. 26 | If the Buddha is a mere human being [which he is not],
who was born and died like us,
how can he guide us to become Buddhas,
who are beyond birth and death?
- Stonepeace
According to the Dona Sutra, the brahmin Dona was walking along when he sighted the...
Aug. 23 | If there is no Bodhicitta,
there would be no Buddha,
and no Buddhadharma [teachings of the Buddha].
- Stonepeace
The title of this article sounds like a ridiculous question. And indeed, it is. For if even the Buddha did not teach the path to Buddhahood,...
Aug. 2 | Paradoxically,
realisation of the unconditioned
requires many conditions.
- Stonepeace
When we speak of the word ‘enlightenment’, what might come to mind is the image of an electric bulb within suddenly switching on, illuminating the darkness...
May. 24 | Major sudden enlightenment in an instant
is the culminating effect
of minor gradual awakenings over much time.
~ Stonepeace
In the Lotus Sutra, there is a section where Wisdom Accumulation Bodhisattva asks Manjushri Bodhisattva if there is anyone who...
