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Dhammapada
Verse 130 Shelter Against Death
Verse
130. To All Life Is Dear
All tremble at force,
dear is life to all.
Likening others to oneself
kill not nor cause to kill.
Explanation: All are frightened of being hurt or any threat to
one’s life. To all life is dear. Seeing that others feel the same way as
oneself, equating others to oneself, refrain from harming or killing.
III.
SIX
SPIRITUAL POWERS
SIX PATHS OF REBIRTH
TEN DHARMA REALMS
FIVE SKANDHAS
EIGHTEEN REALMS
FIVE MORAL PRECEPTS
SIX SPIRITUAL POWERS
Six Spiritual Powers
1)
spiritual power of the heavenly eye, 2) spiritual power of the heavenly ear, 3)
spiritual power of knowledge of past lives, 4) spiritual power of knowledge of
the minds of others, 5) powers derived from a spiritual basis, 6) spiritual
power of the elimination of outflows.
A.
IN GENERAL
All
the gods of the Three Worlds have the first five spiritual powers to some
degree. Ghosts and spirits also have some small degree of spiritual power.
Those of non-Buddhist religions who cultivate can at the very most only attain
the first five. Only one whose enlightenment is certified achieves the sixth,
the extinction of outflows.
On
the level of the Arhat, the powers are still small. If an Arhat wishes to use
one of them, he must first make a point of making himself still, sitting
quietly for a while. Only then can he find out what he wishes to know.
Bodhisattvas, however, without wishing, without acting, naturally and at every
instant have great spiritual power without measure or limit. This is the
inconceivably wonderful fruit of the Mahayana.
B.
INDIVIDUALLY
1)
spiritual power of the heavenly eye
“With
the heavenly eye one can see the gods and observe all their activities.”
(AS 5)
“A
power that enables one to see an entire world system of a billion worlds as
clearly as an apple held in the palm. The Buddha’s disciple, the Venerable
Aniruddha, was foremost in this power.” (SPV 26)
“With
it you can see what is inside your own body, all the living beings within you
that you must vow to save. Although scientists cannot count the number of
living beings inside the human body, if you have the heavenly eye you can see
them, count them, and take them across… You can even count up the grains of
rice you eat. You can see how your meal is being digested in your
stomach…” (DFS IV 808-809)
2)
spiritual power of the heavenly ear
“With
the heavenly ear one can hear the speech and sound of the gods.” (AS 5)
“A
power by means of which one can hear all the sounds in a world system of a
billion worlds, not merely the sounds in the heavens.” (SPV 27)
“With
the heavenly ear, not only can you hear what the gods are saying, but you can
hear all of the little ‘bugs’ inside of you calling out. You can hear the germs
talking, the flowers talking, and the trees talking. Some people say that when
you go pick a flower it is afraid and lets out a scream? That’s right. ‘Oh no!
This is it! It’s all over. I’m going to die!!!’ When you start hearing all
these sounds, though, you shouldn’t dislike it. You can choose not to listen to
them, too. It’s up to you. The heavenly eye sees more clearly than an x-ray
machine, and the heavenly ear hears more clearly than sonar equipment.”
(DFS IV 809)
3)
spiritual power of the knowledge of past lives
“A
power that enables one to know past events, both good and bad.” (SPV 27)
A
Shramana asked: “What are the causes and conditions by which one comes to
know past lives and by which one’s understanding enables one to attain the
Way?”
The
Buddha said: “By purifying the mind and guarding the will, your
understanding can enable you to attain the Way. Just as when you polish a
mirror, the dust vanishes and brightness remains, so too, if you eliminate
desire and do not seek (for anything), you can then know past lives.” (S42
35)
4)
spiritual power of the knowledge of the minds of others
“A
power through which others’ thoughts are known before they are even
spoken.” (SPV 27)
5)
The powers derived from a spiritual basis
This
“refers to all kinds of powers of magical transformation. You can be
sitting in one place and at the same time go off to New York to play. You can
go take a look at things in L.A. It won’t take you one second to make your
return trip either…” (DFS VII 1296)
A
Bodhisattva who has this power:
can
move the great earth. He can make one body into
many
bodies, and many bodies into one body. He can
either
disappear or appear. He goes through stone
walls
and solid mountains as if they were space. In
empty
space he travels in full lotus, just like a bird
in
flight. He enters earth as if into water, and
treads
upon water as if it were earth. His body puts
forth
smoke and flames like an immense heap of fire.
He
further sends down rain just like a mighty cloud. The sun and moon in space
have tremendous, awesome
might,
yet he can touch and rub them with his hand. His body is free and at ease, even
up to the world of
Brahma.
. . . (FAS Ch26(2) 116)
6)
The spiritual power from the elimination of outflows
Outflows
refer to all our faults, especially ignorance and desire, which cause us to
expend energy outward as we seek pleasure in external sense-objects.
“To
be without outflows is to have no thoughts of greed, hate, stupidity, or sexual
desire. In general, once one gets rid of all one’s bad habits and faults, one
has no outflows. Outflows are like water running out of a leaky bottle; at the
stage of no outflows the leaks have been stopped up.” (AS 6)
Consider
a “teacup. Does it have any holes in it,
any
outflows? It has no outflows, of course, and so it can hold the tea… Would
you say that our bodies have outflows or not? Hah! Our bodies are bottomless
pits. You fill your body up today and tomorrow it all runs out… Obviously
one’s excrement and urine are outflows. They flow out, and we have practically
no control over it. Our bodies have nine orifices which constantly secrete
impure substances… But, these are very common, ordinary outflows and aren’t
that important. The greatest outflows are the ones you aren’t even aware of:
greed, hatred, stupidity, pride, and doubt… In general, outflows are none
other than our afflictions…” (DFS VII 1281-1285)
“What
are outflows? Do you like to eat? That is an outflow. Do you like to drink
coffee? That is an outflow. Women like men; that is an outflow. Men like women;
that is an outflow.
“‘What
can you do that isn’t an outflow?’ you ask.
“Cultivate!
That’s simply all there is to it. First and foremost, you have to cultivate. If
you cultivate, you can be without outflows. If you do not cultivate, you cannot
be without outflows. There’s simply no way around it.
“‘I’d
rather have outflows than cultivate,’ you say.
“If
that’s what you’d like, if it suits you to have outflows, then go ahead and
‘flow out’. Let’s see where you ‘flow out’ to. You could flow out and turn into
a pig, or a horse, or an ox, or flow out into the hells, into the path of
animals, or hungry ghosts. You pick your own path…” (DFS IV 808)
(Source:
Epstein, 2003: pp. 185 - 187)
———-
1)
Chinese Mandarin: liu shen tung , 2) Sanskrit: abhijna, sad-abhijnah,
3) Pali: abhinna, chalabhinna, 4) Alternate Translations: spiritual
penetrations, psychic powers, superknowledges; higher or supernatural
knowledge, intuition; apperceptions, clarities.
See
also: enlightenment,
five
eyes , no
outflows.
Buddhist
Text Translation Society (http://www.BTTSonline.org) References: SPV 26-27; DFS
IV 808-815; DFS VII 1292-1297; (outflows) DFS VII 1283-86; S42 35-36 (knowledge
of past lives); HS 18; AS 5-6; FAS Ch26(2) 116-118.
(NOTE:
Numerous corrections and
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www.Avatamsaka-Sutra.com, www.Flower-Adornment.com,
www.Shurangama-Mantra.com, www.Shurangama-Sutra.com,
www.Prajna-Paramita.com, www.Diamond-Sutra.net, www.Vajra-Sutra.com,
www.Sixth-Patriarch.com, www.Dharani-Sutra.com, www.Sanghata-Sutra.com,
www.Manjushri-Bodhisattva.com, www.Avalokiteshvara-Bodhisattva.com,
www.Samantabhadra-Bodhisattva.com, www.Ksitigarbha-Bodhisattva.com, www.Ksitigarbha.com,
www.Nagarjuna-Bodhisattva.com, www.Nalanda-University.com, www.Tibetan-Thangka.com,
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See
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Catalog Numbering System, Dharma, and names of individual
sutras (such as Shurangama Sutra, Avatamsaka Sutra [Flower Adornment Sutra], Lotus Sutra [Wonderful Dharma Flower
Sutra], Earth Store Sutra, Dharani Sutra, Brahma Net Sutra, Medicine Master Buddha Sutra, Sixth Patriarch Platform
Sutra,
Sutra in 42 Sections, Sutra on the Buddha’s
Bequeathed Teaching,
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Land Devotional School
(Bhakti Puja - Buddha-Bodhisattva Mindfulness and Nama Japa —
Name Recitation of Buddhas Amitabha-Amitayus, Medicine Buddha - Bhaisajya Guru -
Akshobhya,
and Bodhisattvas: Avalokiteshvara-Guanyin-Chenrezig-Mahakala, Tara, Samantabhadra Universal Worthy,
Manjushri-Kalarupa Great Wisdom, Maitreya Great Loving-Kindness, Mahasthamaprapta Great Strength,
Ksitigarbha - Earth Store Great Vows, Vajrapani, Vajrasattva,
Chandraprabha Moonlight
Radiance, Suryaprabha Sunlight Radiance, Medicine King Bodhisattva, Medicine Superior
Bodhisattva
and others Dharma Protecting
Dharmapala Lokapala Bodhisattvas, Gods and Goddesses)
Compilation Sources for the Above
Material on the Teachings of the Buddha:
Primary
Compilation Source: Epstein, Ronald B., Ph.D, compiler, Buddhist Text
Translation Society’s Buddhism A to Z, Burlingame, California: Buddhist
Text Translation Society, 2003. ISBN: 0881393533 Paperback: 284
pages. www.BTTSOnline.org www.Amazon.com
http://www.bttsonline.org/product.aspx?pid=118 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881393533/ref=ase_medicinebuddh-20
Secondary
Compilation Source: The Seeker’s Glossary of Buddhism, 2nd ed., San
Francisco, California: Sutra Translation Committee of the United States and
Canada, 1998: www.budaedu.org.tw
Secondary
Compilation Source: Muller, Charles, editor, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism [DDB],
Toyo Gakuen University, Japan, 2007: Username is “guest”, with
no password.
http://buddhism-dict.net/ddb - Based in large part on
the Dictionary of Chinese
Buddhist Terms
with Sanskrit and English Equivalents (by Soothill and Hodous) Delhi, India:
Motilal Banarsidass, 1997.
Secondary
Compilation Source: Ehrhard, Diener, Fischer, et al, The Shambhala
Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen, Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala
Publications, 1991. 296 pages. ISBN 978-0-87773-520-5 www.Shambhala.com, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0877735204/ref=ase_medicinebuddh-20,
http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-0-87773-520-5.cfm
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Just as Manjushri works
To fulfill the aims of all limited beings
To the far reaches of space in the ten directions,
May my behavior become just like that.
For as long as space remains,
And for as long as wandering beings remain,
May I too remain for that long,
Dispelling the sufferings of wandering
beings.
(Like Ananda says in the Shurangama
Sutra introduction to the Shurangama Mantra,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iddhipada
Iddhipada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iddhipāda (Pali; Skt. ṛddhipāda)
is a compound term composed of “power” or “potency” (iddhi; ṛddhi)
and “base,” “basis” or “constituent” (pāda).[1]
In Buddhism,
the “power” referred to by this compound term is a group of spiritual
or psychic powers that include teleportation
and other forms of bodily transformation. Thus, this compound term is usually
translated along the lines of “base of power” or “base of
spiritual power.”[2]
In the Buddhist pursuit of Enlightenment, the associated spiritual powers are
secondary to the four “base” mental qualities that achieve such
powers. In traditional Buddhist literature, this set of four mental qualities
is one of the seven sets of qualities lauded by the Buddha
as conducive to Enlightenment (bodhipakkhiyādhammā).
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10 04 2012 TUESDAY LESSON 577 FREE ONLINE eNālāndā Research And Practice UNIVERSITYAnd
THE BUDDHIST ONLINE GOOD NEWS LETTER by ABHIDHAMMA RAKKHITA through http://sarvajan.ambedkar.org
84000 Khandas divided into
275250 as to the
stanzas
of the original text and into 361550 divided into 2547 banawaras
containing 737000 stanzas and 29368000
separate
letters
Awakeness
Practices
All
84,000 Khandas As Found in the Pali Suttas
Traditionally
the are
84,000 Dharma Doors - 84,000 ways to get Awakeness. Maybe so;
certainly
the Buddha taught a large number of practices that lead to
Awakeness.
This web page attempts to catalogue those found in the Pali Suttas
(DN, MN,
SN, AN, Ud & Sn 1). There are 3 sections:
The
discourses of Buddha
are
divided into 84,000, as to separate addresses. The division includes all
that was
spoken by Buddha.”I received from Buddha,” said Ananda, “82,000
Khandas,
and from the priests 2000; these are 84,000 Khandas maintained
by me.”
They are divided into 275,250, as to the stanzas of the original text,
and into
361,550, as to the stanzas of the commentary. All the discourses
including
both those of Buddha and those of the commentator, are divided
into
2,547 banawaras, containing 737,000 stanzas, and 29,368,000 separate letters.
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