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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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[shaolinmeditator]

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]

Situating Amitabha’s 18th Vow Among the 48 Vows

All of Amitabha’s causal vows are coherent and all are related to his 18th Vow

To the novice reader, it can seem that Amitabha Buddha’s 48 vows in the Infinite Life Sutra are a series of elevated aspirations randomly strung together. But if we follow Master Shandao’s reading of Amitabha’s 48 vows, we will discover that Dharmakara Bodhisattva, the former body of Amitabha Buddha, presented his 48 vows as a unified set. We will also find that the 48 vows are coherent and all are related to Amitabha’s 18th Vow, the Fundamental Vow—also known as the Vow of Rebirth by Amitabha-Recitation.

Let us take a look at Amitabha’s 1st Vow, known as the Vow of No Wretched Realms in the Land. It states:

If, when I attain Buddhahood, there should be in my land a hell, a realm of hungry spirits or a realm of animals, may I not attain perfect Enlightenment.”

This seems to be a simple and straightforward aspiration, almost commonplace among bodhisattvas. Indeed, most buddhas make this vow in their casual ground, like Akshobhya Buddha’s Fifith Vow.

However, we will be deeply moved if we know why Amitabha Buddha gives this vow first place in his master plan of deliverance. Dharmakara makes his priority the deliverance of sentient beings who suffer most and have the least capacity to leave the world of suffering because of their heavy karmic obstructions. Sentient beings may not know or care about the suffering of beings in these realms, but the buddhas do.

Without being asked, Dharmakara proactively made vows to save ordinary beings from reincarnation within the Six Realms as they are likely to fall into the Three Wretched Realms—the animal, hungry ghost, and hell realms—after death. Due to their ignorance, they are inexorably dragged there by their past karma under the Law of Causal Conditioning.

This vow draws the attention of ordinary beings caught in the cycle of birth and death within the Six Realms. It arouses their concern, triggers their intrinsic fear of suffering, and piques their interest to learn more about Amitabha’s Land of Bliss. As Dharmakara Bodhisattva, Amitabha Buddha wished to pacify their minds, and created an ultimate solution for them and all suffering beings.

“May I not attain perfect Enlightenment” is an extremely high opportunity cost

Dharmakara’s aspirations to make his vows, to practice Buddhism over countless kalpas, and to attain the enlightenment of a buddha is expressed in his 48 vows. They are a single package of deliverance for us ordinary beings reincarnating within the Six Realms in the Land of Saha.

When considering the 48 vows, we should take a practical rather than an itellectual approach. Through his vows, Amitabha Buddha is sincerely and earnestly telling us why he makes such vows for us, how he builds the Pure Land, and what benefits he wishes to bestow on us through his Name—particularly the benefit of assured rebirth in his reward land, the Land of Bliss.

It is important to note that all 48 vows start with: “If, when I attain Buddhahood,” and end with “may I not attain perfect Enlightenment.” This means that Dharmakara is not making wishes, but vows. Each is a solemn promise and a binding agreement. If he fails to fulfill any of his vows, he must bear the consequence, which is not attaining perfect Enlightenment.

Of course, for a genuine bodhisattva, attaining perfect Enlightenment is their one and only goal. To frame vows in such a way is a risky proposition for any bodhisattva, as the opportunity cost is extremely high.

Drawing attention to those who reincarnate within the Six Realms

If we interpret Amitabha’s First Vow as just describing one of the benefits of the Pure Land, or we take it as a vow common to all buddhas who wish to eliminate our heavy karmic obstructions and prevent us from falling into the wretched realms, we do not understand the deep and profound meaning of this vow made by Dharmakara Bodhisattva.

The First Vow draws the attention of those who, like us, live in the defiled lands and are afraid of falling into wretched realms of suffering after death. The fear of losing our life (or the body of our present incarnation) is hidden deep in the minds of all ordinary beings, because it may happen at any time in the space of a breath.

Since this is the deep and profound concern of all iniquitous ordinary beings in the Six Realms, Dharmakara makes it his top priority to deliver sentient beings who suffer most and have the least capacity to leave the world of suffering because of their heavy karmic obstructions.

Thus, in another version of the Infinite Life Sutra, Dharmakara announces at the beginning of his 48 vows: 

All beings in the various reincarnated realms come to be reborn in my land and receive the fullness of joy. My compassionate heart exerts itself to rescue all sentient beings and deliver them from Avici Hell.

Although the Three Wretched Realms are highlighted in the First Vow, all six realms of reincarnation, including the asura world, human world, and deva world, are absent in the Land of Bliss. However, aiming to deliver human beings in the defiled lands, Dharmakara speaks from the standpoint of humans so that they can easily understand, believe, and accept his vows.

Why is the 18th Vow fundamental?

Shakyamuni Buddha and the patriarchs identify the 18th Vow as the Fundamental Vow and the other 47 as “vows of admiration.” This is because once we attain assured rebirth through Amitabha-recitation, as stated in the 18th Vow, we will naturally attain all the benefits promised by Amitabha Buddha in the other 47 vows.

Conversely, if we are not assured of rebirth in the Land of Bliss, all benefits promised by Amitabha Buddha in the other 47 vows are, for us, meaningless—just empty talk. Therefore, the only aim of the Pure Land teaching is rebirth in the Pure Land. This is also the original intent of Dharmakara and the aim of all Pure Land practitioners.

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[mahayanapilgrim]

When teaching Buddhism, one should be like a medical doctor.

One should not teach the Dharma for the purpose of seeking recognition or money, but one should be like a doctor who works hard to heal the suffering of patients and to make them healthy.