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According to Tamil tradition, the founder of Zen, Bodhidharma was born here. [5] [6] [note 1] In the 8th century CE, Buddhist monk Vajrabodhi, the son of a Tamil aristocrat, travelled from Tamil Nadu to the Tang capital of Chang'an, via Sri Lanka and Srivijaya, after mastering the art of Tantric Buddhism.
The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
Buddha offers insightful quotes about happiness, strength, anger, and spirituality, which can all be used to navigate the ups and downs of daily life while working toward enlightenment.
bodhicitta which is a wish or aspiration (Sanskrit: bodhipranidhicitta or pranidhicittotpada), this is when a bodhisattva makes a aspiration or "bodhisattva vow" (bodhisattva praṇidhāna) to become a Buddha for the sake of all beings. This is compared to making the decision to start on a journey.
Vipassanā is the true key to liberation taught by the Buddha. This method was pre-eminently taught in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the most important discourse taught by the Buddha on meditation and on practice in everyday life. The essence of this practice is the moment-to-moment awareness of the rise and fall of all mind-body phenomena.
Slogan 28. Abandon any hope of fruition—Don't get caught up in how you will be in the future, stay in the present moment. Slogan 29. Abandon poisonous food. Slogan 30. Don't be so predictable—Don't hold grudges. Slogan 31. Don't malign others. Slogan 32. Don't wait in ambush—Don't wait for others' weaknesses to show to attack them. Slogan 33.
In the Pali canon, Gautama Buddha recommends cultivating these four virtuous mental states to both householders and monastics. [10] When one develops these four states, Buddha counsels radiating them in all directions, as in the following stock canonical phrase regarding karuṇā:
If they can maintain mindfulness of the Buddha without interruption from moment to moment, then they will be able to see all Buddhas of the past, present, and future right in each moment. [ 15 ] Similarly, in Kumarajiva's Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā (摩訶般若波羅蜜經, T8, no. 223), the Buddha states: