Transcript Buddhist Teachings

Buddhist
Teachings
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Kamakura Buddha
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Overview
•From Prince Siddhartha to the Buddha
•The Four Noble Truths
•The Eight-Fold Path
•The Three Jewels
•The spread of Buddhism
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The Dharma
•Buddhism is a non-theistic religion
•There is no personal god nor was
Buddha a god or is worshipped
•Buddha was a man who attained
enlightenment through meditation
and showed the path to freedom
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Anatta
•There is no immortal self
•A human being is a energy process
composed of momentary flashes
•All human beings are interconnected
with the universe as energy processes
•Nothing in the world is solid
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Reincarnation
•Unlike the Hindu, Buddhism does
not believe in an eternal soul
•But the rebirth process is because
one changing state of being sets
another into motion—karma
•Personality is created moment by
moment
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Vow of the Bodhisattva
Beings are infinite in numbers, I vow to save
them all;
The obstructive passions are endless in number, I
vow to end them all;
The teachings for saving others are countless, I
vow to learn them all;
Buddhahood is the supreme achievement, I vow
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to attain it.
Prince Siddhartha
Who Became A Buddha…
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The
Four
Sights
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Becoming a Renunciate
Seven years
were spent in
the forest
practicing
austerities and
studying the
wisdom of the
times.
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Becoming a Buddha
In the year 528 B.C.
Prince Siddhartha
became a Buddha.
He died at the age of
80 in the year 483
B.C. Five hundred
monks met for seven
months to put his
words to memory in
sacred chants.
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Deer Park
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The Four
Noble Truths
1 - Life has pain & suffering
2 - Suffering is caused by ignorance & desire
3 - Reducing desire reduces suffering
4 - The Eight-fold Path provides a way out of our
karmic predicament of continuous re-births that
result in continuous suffering
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The Eight Worldly
Pre-Occupations
Praise
Gain
Fame
Pleasure
Disgrace
Pain
Blame
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Loss
The Eight-fold Path
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Om Mani Padme Hum
(Purity…Jewel…Lotus…Indivisible)
Means something like…
If you practice the path with the complete
union of compassion and wisdom, you can
transform all impurities to become a Buddha.
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The Two Truths:
The Question of Inherent Existence
Conventional
Wisdom
Ultimate
Wisdom
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The Three Jewels
Buddha
Dharma
Sangha
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Spread of Buddhism
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The Kali Yuga period…
•Our life-force is weak
•Delusions & emotional sickness prevail
•Violence is rampant
•False attitudes pretend to be true
Advice: In a rotten society, the worst thing
would be to follow the social norm.
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Hinayana, Mahayana &
Vajrayana
Vajrayana is the use of subtle vital energies
to transform the mind. The gross mind is
neutralized and the subtle mind “rides” on
the clear light of bliss. This inner light is
considered the only aspect of existence that
is eternal. Once uncovered, one is said to
be capable of attaining Buddha-hood.
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In the practice of rituals, the
diamond sceptre (vajra)
symbolizes method and the bell
wisdom. With their unification
the human being obtains the
insight that all dualities derive
from Relative Truth and that, in
Absolute Truth, subject and
object, internal and external
world, nirvana and samsara are
one and empty.
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The Dalai Lama
As a Tulku
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Wood Valley Temple
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Zen
Zen
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Development of Zen
•Buddhism spread to China around
the time of Christ
•It absorbed elements of the Tao
•Bodhidharma in 5th century first
patriarch of Ch’an Buddhism - Zen
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Qualities of Zen
•Dismisses all scriptures
•Relies on direct experience towards
cosmic unity
•Zazen – to sit and gain absolute
freedom to not allow any thought to
disturb your original nature
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Sengtsan
The Great Way is not
difficult for thos who
have no preferences.
When love and hate
are both absent
everything becomes
clear and undisguised.
6th Patriarch of Zen
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Stages of The
Path
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Satori
“The moon is the same old moon, the flowers exactly
as they were,
Yet I’ve become the thingness of all the things I see!”
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Pure Land
Buddhism
•Modern Japan – needed
Amida Buddha to save
them rather than save
themselves
•Pure Land is similar idea
to Christian heaven
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Nichiren
•13th century Japanese
fisherman
•Lotus Sutra
•Strive to save self and
society
•“Namu myoho rengekyo”
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Considerations…
“Civilization has nothing to do with
having electric lights, airplanes, or
manufacturing atomic bombs. It has
nothing to do with killing human
beings, destroying things or waging war.
Civilization is to hold one another in
mutual affection and respect.”
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Buddhism in the West
•5 million Tibetan Buddhists in west
•Many vipassana retreats
•Thich Nhat Hanh – Vietnamese monk
is author of many books
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Engaged
Buddhism
“Not to respond to the suffering around
us is a sign of an insane civilization.”
Dulak Sivaraksa, founder
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The Heart Sutra of
Profound Illimination
…noble Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva
mahasattva, said… Form is emptiness;
emptiness also is form. Emptiness is no other
than form; form is no other than emptiness.
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In the same way, feeling, perception,
formation, and consciousness are
emptiness. Thus, …all dharmas are
emptiness. There are no characteristics.
There is no birth and no cessation.
There is no impurity and no purity.
There is no decrease and no increase.
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…in emptiness, there is no form, no feeling,
no perception, no formation, no
consciousness…… no ignorance, no end of
ignorance up to no old age and death, no end
of old age and death; no suffering, no origin
of suffering, no cessation of suffering, no
path, no wisdom, no attainment, and no nonattainment.
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Summary
•You are the source of suffering & liberation
•A soft heart & quiet mind can see the truth
•Ignorance is a mistake in identity
•Truth sees the mistake & eliminates
suffering
•Compassion & wisdom are the tools
•Vow of the Bodhisattva
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