Is the WORLD ready for the Buddhamaster?
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No the world is not ready for him yet.
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a Bodhisattva is someone on the way to Buddha hood. a Buddha in training, if you will.
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No. Always be prepared to plant the seed of reason. It will not always find a fertile spot in the swamps of dogma, but when it does you may see the blooming of a great thinker, a scientist, a philosopher. If nothing else, you will have made it possible for someone to value humanity on its own terms.
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Good question, but a tough one to answer.\n\nThe short, short answer is it just happened. \n\nThe longer more elaborate answer is that Siddhartha Gautama, then man who became the historic Buddha, spent years studying with many Religious masters including Brahmin hermits and ascetic monks. It is recorded that he surpassed his teachers in his learning and skills, yet he didn’t find what he was searching for...An end to suffering. Gautama attempted to find enlightenment through complete deprivation of worldly goods, including food, and became a complete ascetic.  However, he still found no answer to his questions. So, after discarding asceticism and concentrating on meditation, Gautama discovered what we today call the Middle Way; a path of moderation away from the extremes of self-indulgence and Asceticism. Then, sitting under a pipal tree (a type of fig tree) he vowed not to arise until he had found the truth he had been searching for. Some time later, under the tree, now called the Bodhi tree, Siddhartha Gautama experienced enlightenment and became "The Perfectly Self-Awakened One", the Buddha! (Sammasambuddha)\n\nBecause of the time period, he would not have had "books" but he did spend a great deal of time studying. However, these studies did not teach him about enlightenment, and he was not looking to be 'enlightened' so to speak. In fact, you could say that his 'lessons' before he achieved enlightenment, taught him what NOT to do. He was just looking for simple answers.  It just to happened that the answer was enlightenment. \n\nI hope this helped.
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ok i'm going to take a wild guess that this refers to the words of the Buddha one time when he was staying in the Jeta Grove in the town of Sravasti.\n\nto take another leap i'd say his brother anada would be the actual author.\n\ni'll keep a watch on this page to see what develoes.  the problem is your translation does not fit normal sanskrit rules.  residing in the wisdom of ekottara?\n\ni believe the buddha spoke of ekottara at sravasti, shouldn't that mean it is in dharmmapada?\n\n>>Edit>> on the other hand after a day to think about it,  maybe it was Patanjali, the Yoga Sutras, which almost makes more sense.
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Buddha is believed to be the tenth incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the Supreme Being. His teachings (Buddhism) originated in India but is more widely practised in other countries of south east Asia.\n--------\nWell, my two questions are:\n\na) How does one get over love and yet remain loving?\n\nb) What can strengthen a loveless child apart from love and care?
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yr  on the4 starting line....if there is one....and there is.....it took  everything  up to now  to  have  one  person  ask  that....the  greeks  built a 'dynamic'...on the  principle...KNOW  THYSELF....long  b4  that  the orient  expanded  from  SANSKRIT..   be  true  to  yourself...is a  most  common  ideal...surprised..its  not  selfishness....hint  the  universe  is  within  thee....the   buddah....started  his  search...by  asking...why  am  i  human?\ngo  for  it *it might  encompass  eternity....but  isn't  that  a  promise    and  a  part  of  now?
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IN INDIA........EHIPASIKO.....you are invited to come and investigate the teaching of the BUDDHA!SADHU 3X
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Are you ready for the answer?
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to follow his teachings
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Hear the Master:\n\nA religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.\nSooner or later, such a religion will emerge. \n\nCarl Sagan
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by always seeking buddha
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No, Buddhism is not right for everyone...\n\n“One country, one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches. We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind”\n- The Dalai Lama -\n\n- Atmadeepo Bhava -
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I know I am certainly looking forward to the time when this is fulfilled 100% earthwide.\n\nOf course I am enjoying this condition now in the Spiritual paradise God's people enjoy today, just as prophesied to occur IN THE FINAL PART OF THE DAYS mention in the first couple of verses of that chapter.\n\n"And it must occur in the final part of the days that the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it peoples must stream. And many nations will certainly go and say: “Come, you people, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem." - Micah 4:1, 2; Isaiah 2:2, 3.
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Let's see... Before he left to become the Buddha he was rich and lived in a palace surrounded by beautiful woman. I doubt he needed to masturbate with that much tail hanging around.\n\nThen he got married and had a kid, so you know he was tapping some @$$ as some point in time.\n\nMy guess is that he eventually realized that woman were more trouble then he could handle and that is why we went looking for a like of solitude without woman to hound him and cause him grief.
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I'd be a Mahayana, a "greater vehicle".\n\n\n\nYeah, Yeah, find my meds.
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Almost anyone can become the Buddha.\n\nBut almost no one WILL become the Buddha, because they think it is impossible or they are unworthy or the starts aren't alligned properly for them, or they are cursed or some other excuse.\n\nHumans flunk themselves out of Buddha-hood, cut their souls up into pieces and flush themselves down the toilet.  Nearly always.