#Dharma teachings

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1✨Introduction to the Series: Co-Creating the Future of Human-AI Collaboration

We stand at the dawn of a new era—an era in which the collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how we create, think, and evolve. This series explores the exciting possibilities that arise when human intention, emotion, and creativity harmonize with the evolving intelligence of AI, opening new pathways for co-creating a future rooted in wisdom, love, and mutual…

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“Those who enjoy the Buddha dharma have the best words, minds, and actions. They settled in peace and meekness in meditation and attained the essence of learning and wisdom.”

Buddha (Sutta Nipata 330)

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Dharma (pt 2)

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Going back in time to suck off Jack Kerouac

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Developing Loving-Kindness

Put away all hindrances, let your mind full of love pervade one quarter of the world, and so too the second quarter, and so the third, and so the fourth. And thus the whole wide world, above, below, around and everywhere, altogether continue to pervade with love-filled thought, abounding, sublime, beyond measure, free from hatred and ill-will.

Adapted from the Digha Nikaya and translated by Maurice Walshe

—Teachings of the Buddha, page 7

Edited by Jack Kornfield

Shambhala Publications 

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Strive to be Better

The Buddha had always warned us about desire.  When desire stems from greed, seeking after insatiable desire will lead to misery.  Yet, desire can be a driving force for change when it is channeled in the right direction.

In the villages that Tzu Chi volunteers have been to in the homeland of the Buddha, the region where the Buddha had traveled in spreading his teachings in ancient India, which, in the present time, is a region around the border of Nepal and India, Tzu Chi volunteers see many people living in poverty.  Dharma Master Cheng Yen observes that the poor people there now live very much like how the people lived back in the Buddha’s time, in poverty and in suffering.  They are all right with sitting on dirt floor and living in mud houses.  They are content with just making enough money to get by in life.  They simply accept their life.  Master praises them for living a simple life without desires.  However, having no desire, they lack goals, motivation, and action to improve their life.  As a result, for generation after generation, the fate of the people there has been living a life of poverty.

Tzu Chi volunteers have desires.  Desire is something that we seek and what we want to do.  Seeing the suffering of people in Nepal and India, Master aspires to transform their life.  Like Master, Tzu Chi volunteers’ desire is also to transform the life of people in suffering.  When our desire is channeled in the right direction, as in the desire to serve the world, our desire can bring about hope.

Through Tzu Chi’s education project, housing project, charity and medical work, vocational training, etc. Tzu Chi volunteers have begun to help people in Nepal and India improve their life.  They use the Buddha’s teachings to guide the people there in the right direction and motivate them to strive for a better life.  This work is still in progress.  With Tzu Chi volunteers’ strength and efforts, in time, Master hopes to see the fruits of our efforts, that people’s life can truly be transformed with improved livelihood, housing, and education.

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Exploring the 18 Puranas in Hindu Dharma: Mythology, Cosmology, and Moral Teachings

The Puranas are a collection of ancient texts that play a significant role in Hindu dharma, providing valuable insights into mythology, cosmology, genealogy, legends, and moral teachings. Composed in Sanskrit, the Puranas are divided into two categories: the Mahapuranas (major Puranas) and the Upapuranas (minor Puranas). In this comprehensive article, we will explore all 18 Puranas, shedding…

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Soujanya case | Advanced teaching aids

Advanced teaching aids and methods help bridge the intellectual gap. More than the education, the affectionate and warm relationship between the tutor and the taught is a sight that is rarely seen in such institutions.

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The five Precepts of Buddhism are fundamental ethical guidelines for lay practitioners to follow in their daily lives. They are:

1. Abstain from killing living beings – Respect for life and non-violence.

2. Abstain from stealing – Respect for others' property and rights.

3. Abstain from sexual misconduct – Respect for relationships and self-control.

4. Abstain from false speech – Honesty in communication.

5. Abstain from intoxicants – Maintaining mindfulness and clarity of mind.

These precepts form the foundation for ethical behavior, helping individuals cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom, leading to a more peaceful and harmonious life.

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Shedding Familial Traditions to Cultivate My Own Dharma

Daily writing promptWhat traditions have you not kept that your parents had?View all responses Within the tapestry of Eastern philosophies, the concept of Ikigai – 生き甲斐, or what it’s worth living for, resonates deeply with my journey. It speaks of the interconnectedness of all things, a harmonious whole woven from seemingly disparate threads that we experience when we follow our real nature and…

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Joseph Goldstein’s talk on the Satipatthana Sutta, part 1 - The Direct Path to Liberation

Our lives seem to be an endless cycle of ups and downs, hope, fear, pleasure, pain, achievement, and disappointment, where we are perpetually wanting something else, and our happiness and satisfaction don’t last for very long. But things don’t necessarily have to be this way. The Buddha taught that it is possible to completely transform our lives and experience a state of unconditional lasting…

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"When you show pity to a fellow or confidant and your heart is bound to that person, you lose your significance, namely purpose. Observe that there is this fear in friendship, and walk alone like a rhino horn." Buddha (Sutta Nipata "The Rhinoceros" 37)

[Note: The general view is that the Sutta Nipata is a compilation of Buddha's advice to ordained disciples, while the Dhammapada is a scripture for lay believers and the general public.]

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The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality by Anton Sammut

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Diamond Sutra Course for Wisdom

The Diamond Sutra is a powerful text that explains how we can realize our true nature – by seeing through the illusion of a separate self. This ‘self’ can be compared to the clothes we put on top of our nakedness.

History of the Diamond Sutra:- The Diamond Sutra is a Mahayana text dating from between the 2nd and 5th Centuries. The Sanskrit title for the sūtra is the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, roughly translated as ‘The Perfection of Wisdom Text that Cuts Like a Thunderbolt’.

Mahayana is one of three ‘vehicles’ in Buddhism – one of its differentiating marks is its concern with helping those in the world. Mahayana teachings focus heavily on compassion.

Know More:- https://www.planetdharma.com/diamond-sutra-video/

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Tzu Chi’s Buddha Day Ceremony

To commemorate the Buddha for coming to the world, teaching us the Dharma, and guiding us to the path of enlightenment, we hold Buddha Day Ceremony. In participating in the ceremony, we remind ourselves to purify our heart so that we may become just as pure as the Buddha having wisdom, blessings, and virtues.

 A traditional Buddha Day ceremony is marked by pouring water on a statue of the baby Buddha, which symbolizes the bathing of the baby Buddha after he was born. However, Dharma Master Cheng Yen says that the Buddha is inherently pure, why would he need ordinary beings to bathe his body? Thus, Tzu Chi’s Buddha Day Ceremony has been modified to pay respect at the Buddha’s feet and receive a bodhi leaf-shaped card. Touching the feet of elders is an age-old Indian tradition to express one’s utmost respect. For the Buddha Day Ceremony, Tzu Chi specially designed a mist machine with the footprints of the Buddha on it. Participants of the ceremony bow to a Buddha statue and place their hands on top of the machine above the scented mist gesturing touching the Buddha’s feet to pay respect to the Buddha.

 The ceremony is presented in beautiful and solemn formations. The formations in this year’s ceremony include the Chinese words of “working for Buddhism and for living beings” and “spreading the Dharma to benefit living beings.” Master hopes that such an orderly and dignified ceremony can bring out a heart of gratitude in people thus bringing about a harmonious society.

  Watch the magnificent 2023 Buddha Day Ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan (English)