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ALL ABOUT AWAKEN ONES WITH AWARENESS USA
New_Mexico
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    •    So Shim Sa Zen Center

Verse 262. Who Gives Up Jealousy Is Good-Natured Not by eloquence alone or by lovely countenance is a person beautiful if jealous, boastful, mean. Explanation: Merely because of one’s verbal flourishes, impressive style of speaking, or the charming presence, a person who is greedy, envious and deceitful, does not become an acceptable individual.

Verse 263. Who Uproots Evil Is The Virtuous One But ‘beautiful’ is called that one in whom these are completely shed, uprooted, utterly destroyed, a wise one purged of hate. Explanation: If an individual has uprooted and eradicated all these evils and has got rid of blemishes, such a person is truly an acceptable person.

Dhammapada Verses 262 and 263
Sambahulabhikkhu Vatthu

Na vakkaranamattena
vannapokkharataya va
sadhurupo naro hoti
issuki macchari satho.

Yassa cetam samucchinnam
mulaghaccam samuhatam
sa vantadoso medhavi
“sadhurupo” ti vuccati.

Verse 262: Not by fine talk, nor by good looks could one be a good-hearted
man, if he were envious, miserly and crafty.

Verse 263: A wise man who has cut off, uprooted and removed these and has rid
himself of moral defilements is indeed called a good-hearted man.

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The Story of Some Bhikkhus

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (262) and
(263) of this book, with reference to some bhikkhus who were very envious of
other bhikkhus.

At the monastery, young bhikkhus and samaneras were in the habit of attending
on older bhikkhus who were their teachers. They washed and dyed the robes, or
else performed other small services for their teachers. Some bhikkhus noticing
these services envied those senior bhikkhus, and so they thought out a plan that
would benefit them materially. Their plan was that they would suggest to the
Buddha that young bhikkhus and samaneras should be required to come to them for
further instruction and guidance even though they had been taught by their
respective teachers. When they went to the Buddha with this proposal, the
Buddha, knowing full well their motive, turned it down. To them the Buddha said,
“Bhikkhus I do not say that you are good-hearted just because you can
talk eloquently. Only he who has got rid of covetousness and all that is evil by
means of Arahatta Magga is to be called a good-hearted man.”

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 262: Not by fine talk, nor by good looks could one be a good-hearted man, if he were envious, miserly and crafty.

Verse 263: A wise man who has cut off, uprooted and removed these and has rid himself of moral defilements is indeed called a good-hearted man.

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Soshimsa
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Jemez Springs, New Mexico
—  Village  —
Location of Jemez Springs, New Mexico
Coordinates: 35°46′15″N 106°41′33″WCoordinates: 35°46′15″N 106°41′33″W
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
County	Sandoval
Area
• Total	4.8 sq mi (12.4 km2)
• Land	4.8 sq mi (12.4 km2)
• Water	0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation	6,198 ft (1,889 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	375
• Density	78.1/sq mi (30.2/km2)
Time zone	Mountain (MST) (UTC-7)
• Summer (DST)	MDT (UTC-6)
ZIP code	87025
Area code(s)	575
FIPS code	35-35320
GNIS feature ID	0918208

Jemez Springs is a village in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 375 at the 2000 census.^[1] Named for the nearby Pueblo of Jemez^[2]:76, the village is the site of Jemez State Monument and the headquarters of the Jemez Ranger District. The village and nearby locations in the Jemez Valley are the site of hot springs and several religious retreats.

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The Buddha – The Story of Siddhartha

 

THIS
IS A INTERESTING SHOW ON BUDDHA’S LIFE STORY. Adults would find it
refreshing, and children would find it a nice way to learn. Please take
do enjoy the learning.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/science-religion_n_1654264.html

Science, Religion With Buddhist Monk Dr. Matthieu Ricard (VIDEO)

As an atheist, I do not believe in god. Neither does Dr. Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk who earned his PhD in cellular genetics and currently lives in the Himalayan region, where he leads humanitarian efforts in India, Nepal, and Tibet.

I sat down with Dr. Ricard at the 2012 World Science Festival
in New York City to talk about science and religion. His comments
surprised my skeptical ears. I’m interested to see if they do the same
for you.

Click the link below and watch the video above to learn more. And
don’t forget to sound off by leaving a comment at the bottom of the
page. Talk nerdy to me!

CARA SANTA MARIA: Hi everyone. Cara Santa Maria here. When Dr. Matthieu Ricard was 26 years old, he earned his doctorate degree in cellular genetics from the Pasteur Institute
in Paris. Instead of pursuing a traditional post-doc, he left his
worldly possessions behind and moved to the Himalayas to become a
Buddhist monk. Today, he’s the founding director of Karuna-Shechen, a humanitarian charity, and he works as the French translator for the Dalai Lama. I sat down with him to discuss Buddhism from a scientific perspective.

DR. MATTHIEU RICARD: It’s not about a religious
practice, and as the Dalai Lama often says religion can be a choice and
we may not make that choice, but we need, from the moment we are born,
we need affection, we need love, we need interconnection, we need
emotional balance. From the moment we are born to the moment we die, we
need to receive and give those affections, love and kindness, and other
qualities. So that’s not an issue of religion, or religion can help each
person in their own part if they choose to do so, it can help
techniques to enhance that, but the main thing is for all human beings
and their techniques to become a better human being.

CSM: I told Dr. Ricard that as a scientist, skeptic,
and atheist, I was wary of the language often used in the context of
Buddhism. Like the word “spirituality,” it just doesn’t compute. So when
I asked him what that term meant to him, well, he surprised me.

MR: When we say
“spirituality,” again we must be careful. I actually don’t use that word
usually. I prefer to speak, let’s say, if I speak of a spiritual path,
for me in Buddhism, it is a path of transformation. Each and every one
of us has the potential for transformation, that’s the fundamental
aspect of Buddhism. We don’t speak of original sin, but original
goodness, and again original goodness is not some kind of weird, sort of
dogmatic thing, it’s just a fact that there’s the potential for change
in every human being. If you look deep within the mind, of course
there’s a lot of emotion, some positive emotion, negative emotion,
sometime anger, sometime love and kindness, but basically the
fundamental nature of mind, you know it’s like light. Cognitive faculty,
the basic cognitive faculty of mind is like a beam of light. It’s not
modified by what it lights up. Like, if light shines on a heap of
garbage it doesn’t become dirty. If light shines on a piece of gold it
doesn’t become expensive. We don’t want to fall prey to the chain
reaction that goes from, you know, feeling a bit upset to animosity to
anger and to full-fledged hate. You don’t want to cause that, the spark
gives birth to that forest fire. You want to just let it vanish before,
that’s all the science of mind that applies to every human being. So a
part of transformation to inner means, that’s what I would call
spirituality. But I would happily dispense of the word spirituality to
say that it is a science of mind. A contemplative science.

CSM: This got me thinking about the eternal debate between science and religion.
I know where I stand, and you may know where you stand. But what does
this man, who is so enlightened in the ways of the scientific method and
Buddhism, have to say?

MR: I think what the Dalai Lama often says about
that, the relation between religion and one’s life, not only with
science, is that it is a fact that possibly more than half of humanity,
even the minimally religious, they don’t really live every moment
according to their religion. And of course there are many completely
nonbelievers, whether they are agnostic or atheist or whatever, those
are human beings, and of course I’m not saying that like a sort of, “OK,
you are also human beings.” No, they are full human beings with a full
potential for being extraordinarily good human beings. So you can’t
associate the potential that we have to express those human qualities
with religion. So that’s why the Dalai Lama says, you know, let’s keep
religion aside. But not being against religion, but it is not
intrinsically linked with religion. So when you speak of secular ethics
and secular spirituality or meditation, he does that. He says, always as
it happens in India, India is a secular state but the notion is
secularism means, respecting all religion including nonbelievers in a
very open society without choosing a particular one and even less
without wanting to impose it on others saying “no, no, because it is
best for me it is best for you,” that doesn’t make sense. As he says
often, “if there was only one dish served in all the worlds’ restaurants
nobody would go to the restaurant, it’s boring.” And also we all have
different mental dispositions. So some people would feel comfortable
with the notion of God, some people it just doesn’t make sense and they
prefer the idea of interdependence and law and cause and effect. And
Buddhism, some people don’t care about Buddhism either, but they still
can and want to be a good human being. So it’s just an option, but it’s
definitely not a necessity.

CSM: Hear hear, Dr. Ricard. What role do you think
religion should play in our modern, scientific society? Let me know your
thoughts on Twitter, Facebook, or by leaving a comment right here on
the Huffington Post. Come on, talk nerdy to me!

To learn more about Dr. Ricard’s humanitarian work and how you can get involved, visit karuna-shechen.org.

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