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[mahayanapilgrim]

HUGGING MEDITATION: THE GOOD FIGHT

- Ven Thich Naht Hahn

Hugging meditation is something to practice with people you love and trust, particularly if you have been upset with each other. To begin, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and visualize yourself and your beloved three hundred years from now. Then, open your arms and hug your loved one. If we can see the impermanent nature of our self and our loved one, we can realize how precious every moment is that we have together. We won't want to waste our time together by being angry and hurting each other.

When you hug someone, first practice breathing in and breathing out to bring to life your insight of impermanence. "Breathing in, I know that life is precious in this moment. Breathing out, I cherish this moment of life." You smile at the person in front of you, expressing your desire to hold him or her in your arms. This is a practice and a ritual. When you bring your body and mind together to produce your total presence, full of life, it is a ritual. You hold the other person in your arms gently, and breathe in and out three times, cherishing the other person's presence. Then you separate and smile to each other again - a smile of gratitude and love. ~

~Thich Nhat Hanh, in "How to Fight"

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Alberto Urso - Unbelievable (Indispensabile English Version)

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HARD TIMES

Yes I know it is hard .... To breathe yes, To survive yes, To smile yes , To cry yes , Many times in our life we feel that it is too hard to live like this , the burden is just too much to take & we decide to give up ... Yes I know it is hard to forgive , Yes I know it is hard to forget , But you know what is not at all hard love ... If in your hard times you have forgot to smile now is the time rise up your soul bring up your heart cry as much as you can & try to find the ways to come out of the trap . Yes it is a trap the hard time or may be the good one both are trap . Make yourself strong and come out of the trap you will find yourself strong. You will develop as an individual who can spread love despite of being in the hardest time ...

 "INSAN BURE WAQT ME KHUD KO KESE SAMBHALTA HAI WAHI DIKHATA HAI KI WO INSAN KESA HAI"

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Amituofo, daily meditation: Buddha is. regardless of what is going on. While you train, Buddha is there, while you eat, while you read, when you are happy, when you are paranoid, when you feel threatened, when you feel safe, what so ever you think to yourself is the reality of that moment, is of no point, try to replace it, with knowing Buddha is here now. Next time you are angered, try your hardest to remember Buddha is here now. When you are over joyed and your ego is satisfied, humble yourself to the presence of Buddha who is here now. One day you will realize Buddha was not Buddhist. Remember so well, that Buddha no longer has to be a memory, as if Buddha is not there. Run your thoughts out of the way, run your mental self-sabotage out of the way, make room for Buddha who is here now. This is what we are saying when we say Amituofo! Revere the Buddha within you, that is you and everything around, everything before you, everything after that, which is everything now. I revere this presence, so I call upon it with a pure heart, clean hands, and an aware mind. I acknowledge it everywhere possible, in every way possible! Amituofo! #Shaolin #Traditional #amituofo #gongfu #KungFu #ShaolinTemple #amitabachan #amitababuddha #chanwuyi☯️☸️xinyiba #ShaolinMonk #Bodhisattva #Buddha #Master #Enlightenment #Nirvana https://www.instagram.com/p/ByLQBiaJ8tN/?igshid=1w98soajho5kz

[mahayanapilgrim]

The purpose of rebirth in the Pure Land in the afterlife is not for the self-enjoyment of a blissful state but to become a Buddha and return to the world of suffering to exercise Great Compassion for the enlightenment of all sentient beings.

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DIL KE TUKDE TUKDE KAR KE

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[mahayanapilgrim]

Approaching Buddhism by Reading the Buddhist Sutras

The purpose of learning and practicing Buddhism

Why do people want to know, learn, and practice Buddhism? What benefits do they expect from the Buddhist teachings? The answers vary because people have different views and encounter different problems. In addition, people usually do not know what they want as they frequently change their minds under various circumstances.

However, Shakyamuni Buddha is the wisest, kindest, most benevolent and compassionate person among all living beings in history. Shakyamuni Buddha knows us much better than we know ourselves because we are ignorant about right and wrong, happiness and suffering, good and evil, life and death, and the reality of the universe.

Thus, it is better to know why Shakyamuni Buddha set forth the Buddhist teachings about 2,500 years ago. Shakyamuni Buddha stated his original intent for appearing in the world on two occasions near his death, before he entered nirvana: one in the Lotus Sutra and the other in the Infinite Life Sutra.

Why did Shakyamuni Buddha set forth the Buddhist teachings about 2,500 years ago?

In the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha tells his disciples, both sravakas (those seeking self-liberation) and bodhisattvas (those seeking to liberate others), that he came to reveal and expound the right views of a buddha, and further that he wishes to enable all beings to become enlightened and grasp the Buddha’s right views and enter the Buddha’s realm, which is unspeakable and inconceivable.

Sravakas and bodhisattvas are sagely and sacred beings who pursue wisdom and enlightenment to become arhats and buddhas, respectively. Strictly speaking, it is impossible for us to grasp their profound and subtle understanding of the Dharma. Our status is that of ordinary beings subjected to reincarnation within the Six Realms.

Let us look at the Infinite Life Sutra. Shakyamuni Buddha says: “With infinite great compassion, the Tathagata commiserates with living beings of the Three Domains. Therefore, he appears in the world to disseminate the teaching of the Way, wishing to save the multitudes by endowing them with real benefits.”

The Buddha’s original intent does not make sense to us because we are living beings in the Three Domains and Six Realms. In our ignorance, we are compelled to endlessly take rebirth as heavenly beings, human beings, asuras, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell beings.* In order to end this cycle of suffering, the Tathagata (Thus Gone or Thus Come, another title for the Buddha) Shakyamuni wishes to endow us with real benefits.

What are real benefits? Shakyamuni Buddha, in his great compassion, made it clear: eternal, nirvanic peace and joy. The Buddhadharma is the teaching that cuts off suffering at its root. It can improve the quality of our present life, but the most important thing is to exit the cycle of birth and death forever. This is why Shakyamuni Buddha set forth Buddhist practice in the world.

Four differences in each Buddhist sutra spoken by Shakyamuni Buddha

It is important to note that Shakyamuni Buddha speaks of 84,000 different teachings in the Buddhadharma. These differ in terms of time, place, audience (especially their capacities and aptitudes), and the benefitsbestowed by the teaching. These classifications were established by Master Shandao in his Commentary on the Contemplation Sutra.

Moreover, each Buddhist sutra basically talks about two things: one is the aim and the other is the method. In reading a sutra, we should ask whether our aim aligns with that of the sutra and, more importantly, whether the suggested method to achieve the aim is within our capacity to practice.

Last, but not least, it is important to understand that Shakyamuni Buddha usually tackles the root cause of our problems rather than providing solutions that offer only temporary relief. Such would be like pouring hot water onto a field of ice. Although it helps to melt the ice, the hot water itself will soon turn into ice.

Shakyamuni Buddha would rather extinguish the burning wood under the pot with hot water than pour cold water into the pot to cool it down. The real benefits endowed by the Buddha generally refer to definitive and ultimate solutions that sever the root of our suffering.

The three Pure Land sutras have one common aim and method

It is interesting to note that all three Pure Land sutras have a common aim and method, so they are considered one sutra. The aim of the three Pure Land sutras is to attain rebirth in Amitabha’s Pure Land, and the method to attain rebirth is to recite Amitabha’s Name.

In other words, if you wish to attain rebirth in Amitabha’s Pure Land, called the Land of Bliss, you can start reading the three Pure Land sutras. Regarding the method to attain rebirth, Amitabha-recitation is so easy that all of us can do it and practice it under any circumstance.

In the three Pure Land sutras, Shakyamuni Buddha urges us to dedicate our merit and virtues and aspire to be reborn in Amitabha’s Land of Bliss. Alternatively, if we wish to be totally assured of our rebirth, we can recite Amitabha’s Name exclusively and thereby end the fundamental suffering of the cycle of birth and death within the Six Realms.

The Pure Land scriptures are suitable for the aptitude and needs of all beings

With ignorant, ordinary beings as the target audience, the teaching spoken by Shakyamuni Buddha in the Three Pure Land Sutras (The Infinite Life Sutra, the Contemplation Sutra, and the Amitabha Sutra) presents us with facts, rather than profound and abstract concepts.

In the Amitabha Sutra, for example, the Buddha introduces Amitabha Buddha and his Pure Land and says:

If you travel westward from here, passing a hundred thousand kotis of buddha-lands, you come to the land called “Bliss,” where there is a Buddha named “Amitabha.” He is living there now, teaching Dharma.

It is simple and straightforward, showing the existence of Amitabha Buddha and his Land of Bliss in the framework of time and space with which we are familiar. Conversely, many other sutras are spoken for sravakas and bodhisattvas who seek merit through the self-powered practices of meditative and non-meditative virtues. These teachings are beyond the abilities of ordinary beings to comprehend.

Many sutras, such as the Heart Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, the Shurangama Sutra, and the Avatamsaka Sutra, are famous and popular; however, these sutras are subtle and were not spoken for the benefit of ordinary beings.

Moreover, Shakyamuni Buddha says in the Lotus Sutra that the teachings for sravakasand bodhisattvas are “expedient.” Expedient teachings are a means, not an end. They are meant to lead sagely and sacred practitioners to the real teaching of the One Buddha and so enter the Buddha’s realm, which is unspeakable and inconceivable.

So the Pure Land teaching is not just for ordinary beings, but also for the sagely and sacred beings who wish to be reborn in Amitabha’s Land of Bliss and attain the “real” benefits endowed by the Buddha for ultimate liberation.

* The Three Wretched Realms are hells, hungry ghosts and animals. Adding the Asura, human and heavenly beings, it forms the Six Realms in the Three Domains of this great trichiliocosm called the Saha World.

By Alan Kwan BUDDHISTDOOR GLOBAL

The guiding principles of the Pure Land School are “faith in, and acceptance of, Amitabha’s deliverance; single-minded recitation of Amitabha’s name; aspiration to rebirth in Amitabha’s Pure Land; comprehensive deliverance of all sentient beings.”

The school’s special characteristics: “recitation of Amitabha’s name, relying on his Fundamental Vow (the 18th); rebirth of ordinary beings in the Pure Land’s Realm of Rewards; rebirth assured in the present lifetime; non- retrogression achieved in this lifetime.”

May all practitioners of deep mind single-heartedly accept the Buddha's words and hold fast to the Nembutsu practice, even at the risk of their own lives. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Namo Amituofo

Namo Amida Butsu