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| | Buddha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The idea of an everlasting Buddha is a Mahayana notion popularly associated with the Mahayana Buddhist scripture, the Lotus Sutra. | | | According to scriptures available, Gautama Buddha was the 28th Buddha. | | | Gautama the Buddha foretold the name of 29th Buddha as "Maitreya". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha
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| | Songs and Meditations of the Tibetan Dhyani Buddhas |
| | Vajrasattva is the Buddha of diamond-wisdom, and is the chief Buddha of the five Dhyani Buddhas. | | | The Bodhisattvas (Emanations or Spiritual Sons) of the Dhyani Buddhas | | | He is the Buddha of mirror-like wisdom and is known as the Immovable One. |
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http://www.buddhanature.com
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| | Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tathagata is one of the ten epithets for a Buddha. | | | The Tathagatagarbha is indicated by the relevant sutras to be the ultimate, pure, ungraspable, irreducible, invulnerable, true and deathless Quintessence of the Buddha's liberating Reality, the very core of his highest being (Dharmakaya). | | | The Tathagatagarbha is, according to the final sutric teaching of the Mahayana Nirvana Sutra, the hidden interior Buddhic Self (Atman), untouched by all impurity and grasping ego. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tathagatagarbha_doctrine
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| | Glossary |
| | It is the realm of Vairocana Buddha, the transcendental aspect of Buddha Shakyamuni and of all Buddhas. | | | Represents the Dharma Body of Buddha Shakyamuni and all Buddhas. | | | The concept of decline, dissension and schism within the Dharma after the passing of the Buddha is a general teaching of Buddhism and a corollary to the Truth of Impermanence. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/pureland/mindseal06.htm
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| | BUDDHA NATURE I |
| | The founder of Buddhism in this world is Buddha Shakyamuni. | | | The founder of Buddhism was Buddha Shakyamuni who lived and taught in India some two and a half thousand years ago. | | | In the Hinayana teachings Buddha explains how to attain liberation from suffering for oneself alone, and in the Mahayana teachings he explains how to attain full enlightenment, or Buddhahood, for the sake of others. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cheeky.monkey/buddha/Personal9.html
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| | The Buddha We Are |
| | Suzuki Roshi said "...to be a human being is to be a Buddha. | | | It does not mean that beings possess a Buddha nature, or that beings are containers in which a seed form of Buddha can be found, as if there were two realities, beings and Buddha. | | | One of the fundamental teachings in Soto Zen, or the starting point for the Soto teachings, is that we are all Buddha, we are already Buddha. |
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http://www.intrex.net/chzg/Pat2.htm
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| | THE BASIC TEACHING OF BUDDHA |
| | The Buddha said, "The extinction of desire is Nirvana." This is the ultimate goal in Buddhism. | | | The Buddha realized that that he was not the first to become a Buddha. | | | The Buddha taught his disciples to be tolerant of other religions. |
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http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/footsteps.htm
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| | ORIENTALIA - Attaining the Buddha-Nature Here and Now |
| | Comply with (your Buddha's) empowerment and contemplate on it. | | | Sanskrit "buddha" and "bodhi" are derivatives of the same word (budh). | | | Secondly, one attains unity with Mahavairocana Buddha through the three mystic practices of empowerment and responding. |
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http://www.orientalia.org/article603.html
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Buddha Nature |
| | It is the lack of inherent nature of the Buddha that is Buddha nature. | | | Once it is realised, it is the basis for pure manifestations, in other words the Buddha Kayas (bodies) and Buddha Realms, the Mandalas of Tantric Deities and so on. | | | Buddha Nature in the Geluk tradition is, as Wooden Robot pointed out, is the mere emptiness of the mind. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=9779
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Buddha Nature - Simply |
| | Buddha nature is presumably a different experience for everyone but as I see it self and other are all one buddha, keep going and you become that buddha of self and other infact you always were that buddha. | | | Furthermore, in the chapter of expounding the nature of Buddha nature, the author identified Buddha nature with the 'Dharmakaya', which is characterized with four virtues ('guna'). | | | Once you become aware of your own buddha nature, some experience a phase of seeing buddha reflected in others which is an intermediate state related to mirror mind and it seems to them that the whole universe has buddha nature.... |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t5840.html
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| | About Dharma - What is Compassion |
| | It is the root of Buddha because all Buddhas are born from compassion. | | | Therefore the way to become a Buddha is to awaken our compassionate Buddha nature and complete the training in universal compassion. | | | Our compassion is our Buddha seed or Buddha nature, our potential to become a Buddha. |
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http://aboutdharma.org/what-is-compassion.php
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| | Publications |
| | The Buddha Nature that all sentient beings can awake to is referred to Awakening Buddha Nature, the first part of Buddha Nature. | | | What Buddha sees is the original nature of the cup, which is clay, not the physical form or function of the cup. | | | What Buddha solves is the life-and-death problem of our spiritual selves. |
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http://taosculture.org/English/Publications/buddha2.htm
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| | Buddhist philosophy, Indian : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online |
| | Discussions about the nature of the Buddha were as important to some Buddhist philosophers as discussions about the nature of God were to the theologians of theistic traditions (see Buddha). | | | Given the diversity of things said about the Buddha in the texts that Buddhists regarded as authoritative, it is no wonder that among the points about which there was considerable controversy was the nature of the Buddha himself. | | | Those who accepted the Buddha as a ubiquitous and eternal entity tended to claim that the human Buddha was merely a manifestation in human form that appeared for the sake of guiding human beings. |
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http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/F001SECT3
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| | The Berzin Archives - Buddha-Nature According to Gelug-Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika |
| | The evolving family-traits are the seeds that, newly gained by listening to, contemplating, or meditating on Buddha's teachings, are imputable on the basis of the stained mind of each limited being and which serve as factors allowing that being to attain arya pathway minds ('phags-lam) in the category of shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, or bodhisattvas. | | | According to Chittamatra, the naturally abiding family-traits are the seeds (sa-bon) that, without beginning, are imputable on the basis of the stained mind of each limited being (sentient being) and which serve as factors allowing that being to attain one of three purified states (byang-chub, Skt. | | | The purified states are those of an arhat (liberated being) - either a shravaka arhat or pratyekabuddha arhat - or that of an enlightened being (bodhisattva arhat, Buddha). |
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http://berzinarchives.com/sutra/sutra_level_4/buddha_nature_according.html
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| | The Berzin Archives - Buddha-Nature: First Day of a Discourse on Uttaratantra - 1 Background Discussion |
| | After that, comes the chapter on a Buddha's enlightening qualities, which, free of stains, are corrections of all inadequacies. | | | Then, concerning the "basic foundation of the mind," Buddha explained the essential nature of the reality of the mind as voidness: it is devoid of all impossible ways of existing. | | | He speaks of Buddha-nature as possessing a Buddha's enlightening qualities as potential abilities or seeds and as having an actual nature that is unaffected by anything. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/rings/prasangika/Buddha-naure.htm
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| | The Buddha Nature Is |
| | The role of the Buddha is not that of a supernatural being to which others are subservient. | | | It indicates that the Buddha returns to the realm of the lower nine worlds to lead people to enlightenment, and that while existing in the lower nine worlds, ordinary people have the potential to attain Buddhahood. | | | In the Daishonin's thirteenth century japan, dominated by Buddhist sects that followed provisional sutras, Buddhas were thought to be transcendent savior figures. |
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http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/buddhismtoday/bc037.htm
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| | Khenpo Tsultrim on Buddha Nature |
| | Continuing with the ten aspects of Buddha nature, Khenpo Tsultrim spoke of manifestation, which has three phases, or ways in which beings relate to their Buddha Nature: Ordinary beings relate mistakenly; Bodhisattvas relate unmistakenly; and Buddhas relate in a manner beyond conception. | | | Khenpo Rinpoche further transmitted a glimpse of primordial perfection when speaking of the ten aspects of Buddha Nature's existence, among which is fruition, encompassing the transcendent perfection of the qualities of purity, bliss, self, and permanence. | | | But in the Third Turning the Buddha stated that the Buddha Nature is the essence of all beings; however, because we |
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http://www.khandro.net/lama_Tsultrim_BudNature.htm
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| | Tathagatagarbha - Buddha Nature |
| | Buddha Nature and Buddhist practice are essentially the same thing. Buddha Nature is not a theory, it is an omnipresent reality, and Buddhist practice simply links us into that reality. | | | So I’m going to speak about this Buddha Nature which, in Buddhist tradition, is usually called Tathagatagarbha. Tathagata is a common word for Buddha; Garbha means either womb, or the embryo which grows in the womb. | | | it also has an optimistic concept of human nature, which is based on the idea of a universal, active Buddha Nature. |
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http://www.kamalashila.co.uk/talks/Tathatagarbha.htm
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| | BUDDHA NATURE By Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche |
| | When we begin to meditate on the nature of mind, it is preferable to make short sessions of meditation, several times per day. | | | But all the way along this spiritual journey, although there is an appearance of transformation, the nature of the mind has never changed: it was not corrupted on entry onto the path, and it was not improved at the time of realization. | | | The state of Buddha contains in itself five "bodies" or aspects of Buddhahood: the Manifested Body, the Body of Perfect Enjoyment, the Absolute Body, the Essential Body and the Immutable Diamond Body. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/tibetan/buddha_nature__by_dilgo_khyentse.htm
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| | Naropa Online - Buddha Nature: The Nature of Enlightenment in the Uttaratantra and Mahamudra |
| | These teachings are generally described using the name "Buddha Nature," and form the foundation of one of the most profound Buddhist traditions of practice and accomplishment, called the "Great Seal" or "Mahamudra". | | | One of the most dynamic teachings of Buddhism is that all beings are naturally enlightened. | | | Thrangu Rinpoche, The Uttaratantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature (Namo Buddha Publications) Available through Namo Buddha Publications. |
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http://www.naropa.edu/distance/courses/REL527e.htm
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| | Snow Lion Publications |
| | All sentient beings, without exception have buddha nature, the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states. | | | The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra, one of the "Five Treatises" said to have been dictated to Asanga by the Bodhisattva Maitreya, presents the Buddha's definitive teachings on how we should understand this ground of enlightenment and clarifies the nature and qualities of buddhahood. | | | This seeing is obscured by veils which are removable and do not touch the inherent purity and perfection of the nature of the mind as such. |
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http://www.snowlionpub.com/search.php?in_item_id=4953
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| | Articles - Buddha Nature |
| | It says in the sutras that buddha nature pervades all beings. | | | Time and time again, we are told that we are buddha, that the buddha qualities are present now, but that we just don't know it. | | | But this does not mean that there is some thing which is buddha nature. |
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http://www.unfetteredmind.org/articles/nature.php
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| | Do the Taliban Have Buddha Nature |
| | The Buddha had said that the cause of suffering is the attachment to things that are impermanent. | | | Those stone buddhas are fulfilling their vows by drawing fire away from other sentinent beings. | | | They are teaching the world the truth about what the Buddha said many centuries ago. |
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http://are.berkeley.edu/~atanu/Writing/taliban_nature.html
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| | Aligning with your Buddha Nature |
| | From my understanding, "Buddha" means "awake", and each one alive possess "Buddha nature". | | | He, as well as many others speak and live peace and unity, and are assisting all of humanity in recognizing their own Buddha Nature. | | | There is a peaceful, calm energy that comes to "mind" when one encounters a statue of Buddha, or sees a bright orange or maroon robe adorning a monk. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~cbearse/AligningwithyourBuddhaNature.htm
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| | Dictionary Information: Definition Dharmakaya - Description Meaning Thesaurus |
| | It is the spiritual body of the buddhas, their true nature, which all buddhas have in common. | | | Various names are applied to the Dharmakaya depending on whether it is being taken as the true nature of being (dharmata, dharmadhatu, tathata, bhutatathata, shunyata, alaya-vijnana) or as the true nature of the buddhas (buddhata, buddha-nature, tathagatagarbha). | | | The Dharma body (fa-shen) is considered to be the eternal indestructible true principle, the Buddha's original body. |
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http://selfknowledge.com/109716.htm
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| | Buddha Nature CD - New Earth Records |
| | Deuter's correct perception that Buddha Nature is inseparable from bliss/void and compassion — illustrated by the image of Avlokiteshvara (the Buddha of compassion who the Dalai Lama is said to be a reincarnation of) on the cover — creates five meditative tracks that deal with different aspects of the Path impressionistically. | | | He has become a leading light in the music of healing and meditation, and Buddha Nature is his most focused yet most stridently abstract work in this genre to date. | | | The artist Deuter was obviously inspired by Buddhism for this recording. |
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http://www.newearthrecords.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=21
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| | The Buddha Nature |
| | Although the Theravadins/ Hinayanists have no the category of the "Buddha's Nature", all true Mahayanists (with exception of some Yogacarins) insists that all the sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature It is Tathagatagarbha, the Embryo of the Buddhahood in all beings. | | | All the beings are already endowed with the wisdom of the Buddha! |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/Buddha_Nature.htm
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| | Buddha-nature |
| | By means of the six paramitas you will surpass the confines of the mortal body, in addition to all levels of attainments, including those of the Hearers and the Solitary Buddhas. | | | Turning to the indirect cause, namely the six paramitas, let me briefly outline their meaning consistent with the spiritual practice of Dark Zen. | | | First, you should realize that the term "Buddha-nature" refers to the very mind of the Buddha. |
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http://www.darkzen.com/zenmar/buddha-n.html
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| | Simhanada---Buddha Nature |
| | Our Buddha Nature, or inherent seed for enlightenment, is like gold under the house of a poor but blind old man. Not only is this old man unaware of the treasure beneath his house, but he is unable to see it due to his blindness and cannot get to it due to his age. | | | In the same manner, many living beings are unaware that they can overcome suffering and achieve the state of the Buddha. | | | Each and every living being has an inherent essence that is identical and no different from that of a Buddha. |
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| | Neo-confucianism and the Buddha nature |
| | Also, If I understand correctly, this original nature is equivalent to the Buddha nature or the Dharmakaya which assumes an essence body or a consciousness that is merged in the universal consciousness. | | | Further, the original nature concept is founded mostly on ideas introduced by Daoism and Buddhism, i.e., the concept of emptiness, things do not exist independently and they do not endure. | | | How does the Buddha nature fits in with? |
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http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/_disc3/00000102.htm
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| | Articles - Buddha Nature: Living in Attention |
| | The source of that knowing is buddha nature. | | | It was at this point that I began to appreciate the Buddha's teachings in yet another light. | | | The phrase "Be there or be square" acquired a new meaning for me. Very simply, attention reveals buddha nature and enables it to manifest in our lives. |
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http://www.unfetteredmind.org/articles/living.php
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| | Buddha's Nature : Evolution As a Practical Guide to Enlightenment |
| | The Buddha said that "everything we need to know about life can be found inside this fathom-long body." Yet when most people start on the spiritual path, they consciously or unconsciously cut themselves off from their body. | | | It shows how the path to true liberation comes only through a deep understanding and acceptance of our biology and its important role in our spiritual evolution.It also shows how twentieth-century science is finally catching up with the time-honored beliefs of Buddhism. | | | Why?This provocative synthesis of Eastern wisdom and Western science seeks to correct that tendency by bringing us back to the Buddhas original revolutionary message. |
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http://www.allbookstores.com/book/0553106015
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| | On the Buddha-nature of Insentient Things -Robert H. Sharf- |
| | If you still maintain that insentient things are without buddha nature, then the scriptures ought not to say that the triple realm is only mind, and that the myriad dharmas are only consciousness. | | | Among the thousand buddhas of the current Bhadra kalpa, if there is a single case of an insentient object becoming buddha, please show it to me." The Master said: "I now ask you, imagine a prince at the time of his coronation as king. | | | 1991 The Buddha Nature: A Study of the Tathagatagarbha and Alayavijnana. |
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http://kr.buddhism.org/zen/koan/Robert_Sharf-e.htm
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| | Does the Internet Have A Buddha Nature? |
| | The question of cyberspace having Buddha nature (or spirit) is not just a quaint koan suitable for personal reflection. | | | Long before nuclear physicists confirmed that matter is actually energy, and that energy in turn is no thing, Buddhists were meditating on the non-substantiality of existence, also known as Sunyata and often translated as "void." Cyberspace is no more real or unreal, important or unimportant, than the "reality" we inhabit all the time. | | | No doubt one reason Buddhists feel so at home in the invisible realm of the Internet is the Buddhist understanding of the ephemeral nature of the material world. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/bodhidharma/internetbuddha.html
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| | Yo Quiero Buddha-Nature |
| | Student: "Everything has Buddha-nature, from the buddhas above to the ants below. | | | A caveat before we go on: although I have taken Buddhist initiation vows three times now, and was moved to the core each time, I remain stubbornly individualistic in my practice and beliefs, following the old 12-Step Program adage of taking what I like and leaving the rest. | | | Foulk's interpretation is that while "all of existence is coextensive with Buddha-nature"...in fact, that nothing can exist outside it..."only sentient beings can 'become' Buddhas by waking up to or seeing the Buddha-nature within them; such an epistemological transformation is impossible for insentient beings, at least until the end of the world." |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/buddhism/21788
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| | Religious cults and sects - Zen |
| | When Zen Buddhists realize their Buddha nature, they experience inner joy and peace. | | | Chinese CH'AN (from Sanskrit dhyana, "meditation"), important school of Buddhism in Japan that claims to transmit the spirit or essence of Buddhism, which consists in experiencing the enlightenment (bodhi) achieved by Gautama the Buddha. | | | Zen teaches that the Buddha-nature, or potential to achieve enlightenment, is inherent in everyone but lies dormant because of ignorance. |
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http://www.countercult.com/z01.html
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| | Buddha Nature |
| | It is the buddha nature, the undifferentiability of clarity and emptiness. | | | The fact that the true nature of mind could be this clear light, the buddha nature that is completely free of any imperfection at all, and yet be obscured by temporary stains, is called the first of the "four inconceivable points" in a text called the Gyü Lama. | | | The qualities of the basic nature of this clear light, or buddha nature, are that it is naturally open, spacious and relaxed. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/BuddhaNature13.htm
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| | Do you have Buddha nature? - Your Accessing Skill |
| | And the voice of your Buddha nature will not outshout the other voices. | | | Within each of us lies the voice, the vibration, of the Buddha. | | | skills you need to access your Buddha nature. |
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http://www.immunics.org/00/god/buddha.htm
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| | The Nature of Buddha's Enlightenment : Fool Moon |
| | The Nature of Buddha's Enlightenment : Fool Moon | | | I told my teacher I should hand in a blank sheet - and he then told me to write why that was the case - so I need to put why the nature of enlightenment is inconceivable... | | | Be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. |
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http://foolmoon.com/showthreaded.php?Number=54137
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| | The Excluded Middle - Issue 8 |
| | Denial of Instinct, or Man, the Most Stupid Species: Do humans have the Buddha Nature? |
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| | Tower Records - Buddha Nature - Deuter |
| | Only what cannot become the Buddha can become the Buddha." Philosophical paradoxes crop up throughout the liner notes for BUDDHA NATURE, an attempt by Deuter to musically examine the elusive notion of stillness. | | | More abstract, but no less soothing than his other albums, BUDDHA NATURE finds Deuter often burying melody in electronic soundscapes, most clearly on the 28-minute "Illumination." |
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http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2568028
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| | Usui Reiki Symbols |
| | The reason for this is explained later in this article. | | | However, it is possible to discuss their nature, how they work and their history while we continue to honor this trust. | | | Reiki symbols are an important and very interesting part of Reiki practice. |
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http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/usuisym.html
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| | The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower" |
| | The accomplishment of this "awakening" transformed Siddhartha Gautama into a Buddha (an Awakened One). | | | What had Jerry been saying all those years? | | | Naturally when I first discovered the site I went strait to the China Cat lyrics. |
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http://arts.ucsc.edu/GDead/AGDL/china.html
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| | A Buddhist View On Animal Rights |
| | If you've ever owned a dog, and seen him happy, sad, lonely, angry, or guilty, (such as after he has gotten into the kitchen garbage can and made a mess), the answer to this is obviously 'yes.' And now, the European scientific community officially agrees with that viewpoint. | | | As reported in the New Scientist (June 28, 1997; page 11), and NATURE (July 3, 1997; page 11), the European Union has officially recognized that animals have feelings. | | | So now, in Europe at least, the definition of animals (including dogs, of course), will be changed to 'sentient beings,' rather than having them classified as goods or agricultural products, when policies are formulated regarding agriculture, transport, and medical research. |
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http://www.heartlandsangha.org/dog.html
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