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In general though, confirmed confidence in the Buddha, dharma, and sangha is considered to be one of the four limbs [jargon] of stream-winning (sotāpannassa angāni). [10] The sotapanna is said to have "opened the eye of the Dhamma" ( dhammacakkhu ), because they have realized that whatever arises will cease (impermanence). [ 11 ]
Regarding four traits conducive to happiness in future lives, the Buddha identifies accomplishments (sampadā) in: faith (saddhā), in the fully enlightened Buddha; [10] virtue (sīla), as exemplified by the Five Precepts; generosity (cāga), giving charity and alms; and, wisdom (paññā), having insight into the arising and passing of things.
In the Skanda Purana, the Buddha is stated to be one of the incarnations of Vasudeva, [23] and begin enchanting the universe, causing righteousness to dissipate and immorality to prevail: [24] By becoming Buddha, I shall delude by the use of fallacious reasoning and deceit the Asuras who adopting Vedic practices will harass the three worlds.
In India, where Buddhism began, there is a three-month-long rainy season. According to the Vinaya (Mahavagga, Fourth Khandhaka, section I), in the time of the Buddha, once during this rainy season, a group of normally wandering monks sought shelter by co-habitating in a residence. In order to minimize potential inter-personal strife while co ...
Sigālovāda Sutta is the 31st Sutta described in the Digha Nikaya ("Long Discourses of Buddha"). [1] It is also known as the Sīgāla Sutta, [2] the Sīgālaka Sutta, [3] the Si ṅ gālovāda Sutta, the Si ṅ gāla Sutta, [4] and the Sigālovāda Suttanta ("The Sigāla Homily").
The exception to that, the monk Vakkali—praised by the Buddha as "the highest of those who had faith"—is also taught by the Buddha to concentrate on the teaching, rather than the Buddha's person. [86] The Buddha admonishes his disciple Ānanda in a similar way. [87] In the Pāli Canon, different approaches of faith are described. Developing ...
The Buddha himself is depicted as having developed the ability to recollect his past lives as well as to access the past life memories of other conscious beings in texts like the Bhayabherava Sutta (MN 4, the parallel Agama text is at Ekottara Agama 31.1) and the Mahapadana Sutta (DN 14, parallel at DA 1).
— The Buddha, Digha Nikaya II.251, Translated by Harvey B. Aronson [11] According to Richard Gombrich , an Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit , Pāli , the Buddhist usage of the brahmavihārā originally referred to an awakened state of mind, and a concrete attitude towards other beings which was equal to "living with Brahman" here and now.