What is Buddhism

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The Thirty-one Planes of Existence

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... /loka.html



Tree of Enlightment - Nikaya, Mahayana and Tantric buddhism.

http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/tree- ... enment.pdf


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I am the owner of my karma .
I inherit my karma.
I am born of my karma.
I am related to my karma.
I live supported by my karma.
Whatever karma I create, whether good or evil, that I shall inherit.


The Buddha, Anguttara Nikaya V.57 - Upajjhatthana Sutta



“The Aryan Eightfold Path is the path leading to Immortality” [SN 5.8]




“Both formerly and now, I’ve never been a nihilist (vinayika), neverbeen one who teaches the annihilation of a being, rather taught only the source of suffering (that being avijja, or nescience/agnosis), and its ending (avijja).”

- Buddha



At that time, Vaccha, when a being has laid down this body,

and that being (satto) has not yet taken up another (annataram) body

(kayam) in rebirth (anupapanno); therein I declare [that beings]

fuel to be thirstfulness (tanhupadanam). At that time, Vaccha, I

declare [the beings] fuel to be thirstfulness.



SN 4.400


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"The more talking and thinking, the farther from the truth"

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“The Aryan Eightfold Path is the path leading to Immortality” [SN 5.8]








Nagara Sutta: The City (SN 12.65)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html





Some people are simply determined to place a self or a soul into the Buddha's teachings. They have been doing so for the past 2,600 years. The problem is that the Buddha only pointed people towards the end of suffering. In all of the ways he did this, a doctrine of self was not one of them. What he did do was teach his disciples to observe the five aggregates or the six sense bases and their objects as anatta (not-self). He also taught that if one were to try and describe something outside of these, they would be put to grief because such a thing would lie beyond range. So, the role of a soul is non-existent in Buddhism. What is existent are the multitude of ways that the Buddha teaches his followers to free themselves from suffering. This starts from the simple observation of the five precepts to deep states of meditative absorption and contemplation of the three characteristics of existence. In the end, the causes of suffering will be completely abandoned, and that is the highest bliss of Nibbana (unbinding).

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Q: Do you think that Buddhism and science can cooperate in some special way?
I consider Buddhism the head and heart, and science the arms, legs, and eyes. Science explains “how” and makes people’s practical lives easier. Buddhism shows “why” and makes them happy. It helps beings to live, die, and be reborn better.
Q: Einstein says that Buddhism is the only religion that is a consistent, logical system following from the experience of reality as a whole, and that is why it can also match scientific standards. Can we say that the highest Buddhist teaching called Mahamudra is the science of mind?

This is clearly the case. If there exists any science of mind in which it looks directly at itself, it is the teaching of “The Great Seal” and “Great Perfection”— the teachings of Mahamudra and Maha Ati. Mahamudra (or Chak Chen in Tibetan) is taught if one’s starting point and transformative energy is desire; and Maha Ati (or Dzog Chen in Tibetan) is taught if one’s starting point is anger. When one consciously uses those energies to know reality and one’s mind, one gets enlightened. They are a most powerful tool, which makes one experience space as bliss. From this view, every universe is a cosmic joke of space. There exists nothing more fantastic and exciting than experiencing mind’s radiant play, its full potential expressing itself as allpervading wisdom, spontaneous joy, and active compassion. Buddhism is the science leading to this experience.
http://blog.dwbuk.org/dia...hl-buddhism-and-science/

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Consciousness is like space, unchanging and timeless, while its objects are conditioned. Both the outer world and beings’ inner states appear, change, and disappear. Only the experiencer is timeless, limitless, and everywhere.

http://blog.dwbuk.org/lam...tion-to-mahamudra/

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