#buddhism

[jkl-fff]

This is hilarious and adorable and, honestly, I hope part of the secret to attaining enligjtenment. It's the journey, embrace the joy in it.

(context: the person in the video is in the midst of making pilgrimage to Lhasa. The tradition is called kechangtou/磕长头 (ཕྱག་འཚལ/chak tsal; "head ceremony") Tibetan Buddhists will travel on foot from wherever they live to Lhasa, prostrating every three steps along the way. To aid in this, people making the pilgrimage will wear wooden blocks on their hands and (often leather) aprons over their clothes, which they will change or mend when the items get worn out. The person in the video is traveling with a friend. According to his account, he started his journey near the end of November 2023 and is nearly 90 days in.)

English added by me :)

[yoga-onion]

- A message from 23 nights temple -

“A single human thought can shake the heavens, shatter castles and even pierce diamonds. With sincerity in your heart, you can move even the most stubborn person.”

-二十三夜堂からのメッセージ-

“人の思いひとつで、天を揺るがし、城を砕き、ダイヤモンドを貫くことさえできる。誠意があれば、どんな人間をも動かすことができる。”

[boyjumps]

"Don't give yourself to others. Don't throw yourself away." Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya: 1.8)

[thecalminside]

See the false as false,

The true as true.

Look into your heart.

Follow your nature.

-The Dhammapada

[philosophybits]

Ordinary people see existent things and also imagine them to be real, that is to say, not as an illusion. ... Even the objects of direct perception, such as visible form, are only established by popular consensus and not by a valid means of knowledge.

Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:5-6)

[jewish-sideblog]

The way Phoenix and Maya BOTH forget it’s Christmas on December 25th, and have to be reminded by a murder investigation? An obvious indication that Phoenix is Jewish and Maya is Buddhist. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, you can find wild speculation and headcanons in the tags

[tired-pidgeon]

“The Buddhist who thought grace is a terrible concept”

I could shed some light on this

I’m not Buddhist but have some exposure to their world view

Buddhism is all about getting repaid for the actions you do in your life. More good deeds = better reincarnation and vice versa. You’re probably familiar with the idea of getting good karma and what goes around comes around.

Your life is measured by your deeds. In Buddhist theology, you get exactly what you deserve.

And so the idea of grace, which ignores people’s deeds, comes across as shocking and deeply unjust.

In fact, the idea of justice instead of grace is probably a source of comfort for people who have been wronged.

If someone swindles you of all your life savings, spreads awful rumors about you or deeply hurts someone you love, it can be a comforting thought that even though you are powerless to fix it, they will one day get what’s coming to them. A worldview of grace means that they don’t get punished for hurting you or others, so it seems like a subversion of justice.

It’s good to learn about and understand different perspectives. Being open to other worldviews can help us see things in new ways we haven’t considered

Realizing that people just have fundamentally different cosmologies is just... wild. And by cosmology ("account of the reality") I don't mean just like atoms and the expanding universe, I mean the way the fundamentally see reality.

Like. I still remember the Buddhist who told me he hated "Amazing Grace" (thought it was the worst hymn ever) because "grace is a terrible concept".

WHAT!?!? Life changing favor from God that forever transforms one's mind, heart, and being? A man went from being a slave trader to an abolitionist by the power and love of God and you look at that and say "Terrible"?

Like imagine being unable to understand grace???? It's just that, the idea of grace/favor is so deeply ingrained into my psyche from being raised in the church my entire life that I literally cannot conceive of such a thing.

Another example is that post about how "there are no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" and that just absolutely wrecked me. Because it is just so foreign to my way of seeing the world where your thoughts and intentions directly correlate to your actions. Your actions betray your convictions. And so to think someone could have such terrible beliefs and still do so much good was disoreienting for me.

Also just the idea that what you think about people doesn't matter???

No. Just... no. As far as I'm concerned (and as far as Jesus seemed to be concerned in the Sermon on the Mount), speaking to someone or thinking about someone as if they are less than completely human is just as bad as killing them. And some people think that is so horrifying (which why would you be horrified unless you were constantly dehumanizing people??) except that is exactly how murderers thing. That one guy (like a hit man or something) and what he said always lives in my head rent free: "Everyone's a human until they've got a bounty on there head. After I'm being paid to kill them, I just don't see them as human anymore."

LIKE WHAT IN THE WORLD!!?!? THAT IS WHY THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE AS LESS THAN HUMAN IS SO DANGEROUS!!!!!

But some people just fundamentally do not see the world that way. And that is so weird to me.

[awakefor48hours]

I saw a post about this so now I'm curious

New poll with more options if you want there

please consider reblogging for a larger sample size unless you're planning to say something that's anti-theistic

[fastcash978]

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves

Source details and larger version.

If you see the Buddha on the roads of yore … contemplate my vintage Buddha gallery.

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[yoga-onion]

Heart Sutra ~ A sutra that describes “The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom" (5) 

The Idea of “Prajnaparamita Hridhya Sutra” 

The five skandhas ~ “The five elements have no substance, as they are eternally living and changing.”       

While practising Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom), Avalokiteshvara understood that everything that exists in this world is composed of five elements that have no substance.  In other words, we name and give conceptual definitions to everything that exists, both in form and in formless. But since all these things are by their very nature insubstantial, all the names given to them and the concepts prescribed for them are merely fictions.

In Buddhism, it refers to the five elements that make up human existence. It also refers to the five ways of grasping human existence: form, perception, thought, action, and consciousness. The form (rupa) refers to the physical body as a material element. The perception (vedana) is the sensory perception of feelings, sensations, etc. The thought (samjna) is the perception of representations, concepts, etc. The action (sanskara) is the general term for mental actions, especially will other than perception, thought, and awareness. The discernment (vijnana) is the action of recognition, judgment or the subjective mind of perception. 

As they are the elements of the entire universe, constantly coming into being and dying, they have no substance, as they are eternally living and changing. This is one of the Buddhist doctrines.

The five aggregates or heaps of clinging are: 1) form (or material image, impression) (rupa) 2) sensations (or feelings, received from form) (vedana) 3) perceptions (samjna) 4) mental activity or formations or influences of a previous life (sanskara) 5) discernment (vijnana)

The five skandhas, which are the five skandhas accompanied by the five vexations, are also known as the pañcopādāna skandha.

The five skandhas (Pañcupādāna-kkhandhā) are the Buddha's answer to the question, “Who am I?

般若心経 〜「智慧の完成」の精髄を述べる経典 (5)

『般若波羅蜜多心経 (梵: ﾌﾟﾗｼﾞｭﾅｰﾊﾟｰﾗﾐﾀｰ･ﾌﾘﾀﾞﾔ･ｽｰﾄﾗ) 』の思想 

五蓋 (ごうん) 〜 “絶えず生滅変化し、実体をもたない5つの要素”        

観自在菩薩は、般若波羅蜜多 (智慧の完成) を実践していたときには、すべてこの世界に存在するものは、実体をもたない5つの要素から成り立っていることを理解していた。

つまり、形あるものや形のないものすべての存在に対して、我々は名称をつけ、概念規定をしているが、それらすべてのものは本性上実体のないものであるから、それにつけた名称も規定された概念もみな虚構に過ぎないのである。

五蓋 (ごうん) とは人間存在を構成する要素のことをいう。また人間存在を把握する，色(し��)，受(じゅ)，想(そう)，行(ぎょう)，識(しき)の五つの方法をいう。色蘊は物質要素としての肉体。受蘊は感情，感覚などの感受作用。想蘊は表象，概念などの作用。行蘊は受・想・識以外の心作用の総称で，特に意志。識蘊は認識判断の作用または認識の主観的な心の作用である。また宇宙全体の構成要素ともされ，絶えず生滅変化するものなので，常住不変の実体はないとするのが，仏教の根本教説の一つ。

宇宙全体を構成する5要素は絶えず生滅変化し、常住不変の実体はない。

五蘊、つまり執着の5つの要素とは以下のとおり：

色：物質的存在や形あるもの (ﾙﾊﾟ)

受：感覚器官を通して得られる快、不快、中性的な感覚 (ｳｪｰﾀﾞﾅ)

想：感覚や認識によって形成されるイメージや概念 (ｻﾑｼﾞｬﾅ)

行：行動、意志、習慣、情動などを含む心の活動 (ｻﾝｽｶｰﾗ)

識：物事を認識し、それについて意識すること (ｳﾞｨｼﾞﾅｰﾅ)

五蘊（別称: 五取蘊）とは「私とは何者か」に対する釈迦の答えである。

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was getting arranged married to Jesus Christ on the beach. I was super upset, but my family kept telling me that I didn't have a choice. I'm a Buddhist lesbian...

[meta-marphosis]

to no end

[vintage-russia]

Gusinoozerskiy datsan.Masks of the Gods,Russia (19th-20th century)

[balkanparamo]

Bodhisattva