A CONTROVERSIAL ESSAY
Tao Sheng (360-434) was an important figure in the history of Chinese religion. He was a younger contemporary of Kumarajiva and of Hui Yuan and he spent time with both of them as well as at his home temple further to the east. H
Read more…Hui Yuan of Mount Lu (334-416) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, founder of Pureland Buddhism in China..
Mount Lu
Mount Lu is in the centre of China, just south of the Yangtse River, nowadays close to the city of Jiujiang. The area is a national
Read more…Shariputra a dit : "C'est ici que vit un moine, répandant des pensées de bonne volonté dans toutes les directions. Il vit en les répandant partout, de toutes les manières, dans le monde entier, en abondance, sans restriction, sans limites, de manièr
Read more…The Smaller Pureland Sutra
Thus did I hear
Once the Buddha at Shravasti dwelt
In the Jeta Anathapindika garden
Together with a multitude of friars
One thousand two hundred and fifty
Who were arhats every one
As was recognised by all.
Amongst the
Read more…Zen is
"een speciale transmissie buiten de geschriften,
niet gebaseerd op woorden en letters.
Rechtstreeks naar het hart wijzend,
de ware aard te zien, Boeddha worden."
教外別傳 jiào wài bié zhuàn.
不立文字 bú lì wén zìdo.
直指人心 zhí zhĭ rén xīn.
見性成佛 jiàn x
Read more…FAMOUS WORDS
Buddhist sutras generally begin with these words. Hearing is very important in Buddhism. In fact, the essence of Buddhism is to hear the Dharma.
These words can be taken in a simplistic way and quickly passed over or they can be refle
Read more…Honen said “Out of the eleation experienced in the knowledge that birth in the Pure Land is possible through the recitation of one or ten nembutsu grows the joy of the merit of recitation of a million nembutsu.”
There are several points to note here.
Read more…NIET AFGLIJDEN NAAR ONHEIL...
Dit is de eerste van een reeks korte essays waarin ik zal ingaan op het begrip paravritti, dat een belangrijke rol speelt in veel boeddhistische teksten. Het woord benadert heel dicht de betekenis van "verlichting", maar
Read more…Sometimes the healer is a catalyst. A catalyst is a substance that makes a reaction between other substances possible, yet emerges from the chemical process unchanged, while the other participants have been changed in a way that would not have been p
Read more…Een Amida boeddhist is toegewijd aan de praktijk van de Nembutsu. De Nembutsu is een paspoort voor het Zuiverland van Amitabha Boeddha. Dus, de beoefening van Nembutsu is het Zuiverland steeds in gedachten te hebben - het Zuiverland, waar geen hebzuc
Read more…SELF POWER LEADS TO OTHER POWER
The objective of self power is to extinguish itself. Self power Buddhism is a kind of extinction Buddhism: by the power of the self to bring the self to a zero condition. When the self is zero, all that is not self (i.e
L'élément central de la pratique bouddhiste Terre Pure est le nembutsu. Nembutsu signifie être en compagnie du Bouddha. Les bouddhistes "se réfugient" en étant en compagnie du Bouddha. C'est aussi simple que cela. C'est pourquoi les bouddhistes
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An Amida Buddhist is dedicated to the practice of Nembutsu. Nembutsu is a passport to the Pureland of Amitabha Buddha. So, to practice the Nembutsu is to have the Pureland ever in mind - the Pureland, where there is no greed, hate and delusion, no
Read more…SIX VIJÑANA MIND MODEL
One of the ways to understand how conceptions of psychology have changed since the time of the Buddha is by looking at how the model of the mind has elaborated. In the earliest scriptures, the Buddha talks in terms of six vijñan
The core element in Pureland Buddhist practice is nembutsu. Nembutsu means being with the Buddha. Buddhists “take refuge” in being with the Buddha. It’s as simple as that. This is why Buddhists have Buddha statues, so that they keep in mind being
Read more…Amida is calling to me, is calling me, which means that all the Buddhas that ever were or will be are calling me, calling to say “Stop! Look!” “Look at the Dharma we have discovered!”
When I say “Namo Amida Bu” - or any other form of refuge, I am ack
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1. The correct attitude is to be willing to do whatever the Dharma requires, in whatever realm, in whatever aeon. Enlightenment means to see clearly what needs to be done. It is to walk the eightfold path and to know what that means. Yet, as bombu be
Buddha said, “There are people who torment themselves. There are people who torment others. There are people who torment both themselves and others. There are people who torment neither themselves nor others.”
In our modern world there are two parti
Read more…De bodhisattva, die zich heeft teruggedraaid, leeft het leven als een geschenk, niet als een handel, in barmhartigheid in plaats van in gerechtigheid.
HET PAD
We hebben gezien hoe het zich afkeren van betrokkenheid bij het geconditioneerde leven van
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For some people, I notice, Amidism is close to being a monotheism. We come from a culture where monotheism has dominated for a couple of thousand years and wars have been fought over which is the correct monotheistic deity and even over fine points
