Saturday, February 3, 2018

Thus Have I Heard

This animation of Buddha story is about 4 hours and 48 minutes. There are many invaluable teaching from the Buddha.  Below are some of the teaching by Buddha.

Craving, with you I've been born again and again. But now you're reviewed and your power redundant. 
It is the nature of all conditioned to arise, persist for a while and then pass away. Investigate the impermanence of all conditioned phenomenon. For the tears of beings wandering through the samsara are beyond measure. One who is still attached to form, sound, taste, smell and physical sensation cannot find liberation from this world.

Some people have the views that all thing are disagreeable to them. Some have the view that all things are agreeable to them, and others have the view that something are agreeable and something disagreeable to them. 

Each of these views are based on grasping and clinging to the notion of self. Remaining attached, one continues to grasp the feeling as they arise. Whoever should reflect on such feelings as impermanent phenomena, conditionally arising, existing and passing away will come to grow weary of condition of phenomena.(2:03:00) 
This weariness leads to the fading of lust. With the fading of lust, comes freedom from attachment.  When the heart is free from attachment, one knows the heart had been freed. 

To refrain from all evil. To do good to one's utmost and to purify one's mind. This practice is the fundamental principle of Buddhism. 

When Rahula requested inheritance from Buddha
External treasures bind one to the round of birth and rebirth on the wheel of samsara.  Better to give the noble treasure that is the most excellent internal treasure into the worldly wealth.

The power and pleasures in this Brahma realm are very long lasting. They encourage you to think  that all things are permanent. In fact all phenomena have the nature to arise, persist for sometime and then pass away. All things exist in dependent on causes and conditions. 
All beings are born of their actions, heirs to their actions, are related to their actions, have action as their refuge, are owner of their action. Whatever actions are performed, good or bad, we must receive the result. 


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