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    Buddha

    Thursday, January 8, 2009, 7:41 AM [General]

    "Our teacher, Sakyamuni Buddha, is one among the thousand Buddhas of this aeon. These Buddhas were not Buddhas from the beginning, but were once sentient beings like ourselves. How they came to be Buddhas is this.Of body and mind, mind is predominant, for body and speech are under the influence of the mind. Afflictions such as desire do not contaminate the nature of the mind, for the nature of the mind is pure, uncontaminated by any taint. Afflictions are peripheral factors of a mind, and through gradually transforming all types of defects, such as these afflictions, the adventitious taints can be completely removed. This state of complete purification is Buddhahood; therefore, Buddhists do not assert that there is any Buddha who has been enlightened from the beginning."
    His Holiness the Dalai Lama from 'The Buddhism of Tibet'    “The Sanskrit word Karma (or kamma in Pali) literally means action. In Buddhism however, karma mainly refers to one's intention or motivation while doing an action.
    The shortest explanation of karma that I know is: 'you get what you give'. In other words; whatever you do intentionally to others, a similar thing will happen to yourself in the future.
    Our largest obstacle to understanding or even believing in karma may be time. The 're-actions' or results of our actions show up with a time delay, and it becomes extremely hard to tell which action caused which result. For ordinary humans, the mechanisms of karma can be intellectually understood to some extent, but never completely "seen".    May anyone who merely sees or hears,
    remembers, touches or talks to me,
    be instantly freed from all sufferings
    and abide in happiness forever.

    May all sentient beings have equanimity, free from attachment, aggression and prejudice.
    May they be happy, and have the causes for happiness.
    May they be free from suffering and causes for suffering.
    May they never be separated from the happiness that is free from suffering.

     

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