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  • Every phenomena has a reason for it to happen.

  • @000BrokenCity000 Learn to respect first ! Learn to respect a "person" you don't know about if you want to know.I feel sorry for you.

  • @000BrokenCity000 U R MOTHER FUCKER!U GO TO HELL

  • In the noted history and historical events recorded, no one in the world is as compassionate as Gautama Buddha or Mahavira, Greatest souls indeed

  • @youngs1ncere  Bless You!!!

    KdeSoleil

  • ONE LOVE! ONE PEOPLE! ONE WORLD! ONE'NESS! WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT! ULTIMATE UNIFIED REALITY IS ONE! ETERNAL! ONLY NOW FOREVER! NOT PAST AND PREVIOUS OR FAR AND FUTURE! BUT ALWAYS NOW! BEYOND TIME AND SPACE! ONE'NESS AND UNITY THOUGH LOVE AND COMPASSION IS THE KEY! ULTIMATE ENLIGHTENED MIND! EVEN IN MANY BEAUTIFUL DIFFERENCE RELIGION THEY SAY GOD IS ONE! FOR EXAMPLE JUDAISM - ADONAI ECHAD - MEANS GOD IS ONE! IT DOESNT MATTER HOW TO CHOOSE TO VIEW/LOOK BUT LOOK WITH LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING!

  • I am so thankful that I grew up in Buddhist family. Since I was very young age until now I always know that Buddhism is making sense and what I always believe it. I asked so many questions to my parents and also I learn it from my own common sense. Yes, I agree, remember we can only teach people who want to learn and be open-minded. I enjoy going to the temple sitting under the tree and meditating alone. I try to meditate 2 times per day 30mins. U should try yoga, i love birkam yoga heat.

  • Buddha inspires me along with so many other spiritual masters.

  • @TheMelodicmaster what do you mean he appeared to you?

  • very nice video posting thanks a lot..Buddha bless you...

  • so pleasant music thanks for posting the nice video ...Buddha bless you-Rajan ,India

  • Most Beautiful

  • very very nice!

    Congratulation! ;)

  • មានអារម្មណ៍ស្ងាប់ សន្ដិភាព ប្រកបដោយមេត្ដា ករុណា។ សូមសព្វសត្វទាំងឡាយប្រកបទៅដោយសេ­ចក្ដីសុខ សន្ដិភាព និងភាពរុងរឿងជានិច្ចនិរន្ដរ៍។

  • Nice music which really brings peace of mind and body....

  • Thank you for a beautiful dedication.

  • are you buddha?

  • Extinguish your self consuming fires. Life is full of suffering. One may overcome suffering, when one realizes that suffering is caused by attachment to false desire. Detachment and turning away from false desire is liberation from suffering. Creating and following pure desire is the path to eternal joy and enlightenment.

  • For what are riches untold in a life without compassion.......absolutely nothing....simplicity is beautiful, emptyness is freedom....as my fingertip reach down and touch the snow capped tips of the Himalayas I see all. From the book 'Long Time Nutcase' - Denny Hammerton

  • "Fill your mind with compassion"

  • I really love this video, it is very engaging to me~ I connect with the "some suffer too much" but I wonder why it is said that some suffer too little~~~

  • i think the translation is not quite accurate. the meaning should be some suffer a lot, some suffer a little.

  • I think that's right because it wouldnt make sense for the buddha to say that some suffer too little implying that they should be made to suffer more lol. the buddha aims for the elimination of suffering from all living beings

  • It is said that some suffer too little because some beings get so happy and blissed out that they fail to realize the reality of suffering, and even sometimes that death is real and will be coming for them regardless

  • oh, thank you, your explanation is very well said and wise!! :)

  • because without suffering there is less compulsion to walk the path that leads from suffering.

  • Thank you for replying!! I appreciate your comment!! You are very wise! What you are saying is that if you do not know suffering and have not experienced it you cannot become enlightened by it!!! So we use our own suffering to learn and to grow. Thank you!!! :))))))))) Take care!!

  • @megangatita The perfectly beautiful lotus needs mud to grow. The lotus is in many ways opposite to the mud, but together they form nature, together they are a unity. Things only exist because other things exist. Suffering only exists because you have planted the seed for suffering by doing harm. So the way out of suffering is not learning how to become more effective and more perfect, but it is to renounce from behaviour that is the seed for suffering.

  • @nielsjoklein very nice put indeed. But perfection comes from ones understandin ones flaws.The True reasons behind each one of our sufferings is our own ignorances. It is the ignorances that creates the Karma u live in. This what all the great teachers taught is learn to control your thoughts because it is thoughts that creates the sufferings in your heart.

  • Dear jendhamuni,

    The only way to free us from suffering is to attain Niravana where no one can hurt or influence physically or mentally.

    Lord Buddha paved that way to us and let us approach it with Metta and upekha.

    May the noble triple gem bless you

    Vidhura

  • God is unenlightened. God can still get jealous, angry, destroy and kill.

    To be enlightened, one has to eradicate greed, anger and delusion.

    A Buddha is a fully enlightened being. Buddha will not kill anymore

  • @impermanentoo i am 100% agreed with you what you say.

    If all religions focus on teaching compassionate and peace thn our world will become better place. The sad part is many peoples dont want to know the truth and reality. Peoples they are scare to believe in reality and the truth in life. That's why they believe in GOD.

    Peace and happiness

    Buddha bless everyone.

  • @SaoLaos2000 .

    Glad to know that Kon lao know and see invaluable truth in Buddhism.

  • @loso8000

    Well! i have to thanks to my wonderful parents and grandmother who taught me Virtue, Wisdom, Peace and compassion. I am very thankful and happy no matter what. Thank you. Have a wonderful day. peace

  • @SaoLaos2000

    I'm happy to hear about your parents and grandmother doing a good job. I am khonlao by the way. I believe that too many of our lao people don't really know about buddhism even though their country is a buddhist country. I would love to do something to help change that. I think it would benefit them in many ways. You know for most of my life I too didn't know about it. Especially about meditation. Anyway, you have a nice day too. Metta!!!

  • For those disrespectful offenders who have nothing good to say that better off not say anything at all => Do you think glorifying your "Gods" by condemning other people's belief makes you a better person? The truth is, your own attitudes brings mockery to your own religion!!! Even the life of an ant is precious to the Buddhist. You people know NOTHING of the Dhamma so it just a real waste of time arguing with you bunch of self righteous ignoramus!

  • buddha is not a god!! you don't worship buddha!!! it's NOT A RELIGION! it's a philosophy of life. WHY CAN'T PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THIS???? EDUCATION IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST IGNORANCE.

  • it's a little more complicated then that, god is everything but everything can't be explained it can only be experienced. that's why the buddha taught people to know themselves and not worry about god because in the enlightened state the distinction dissapears between the self and god

  • You have a good point, but a bad manner.

  • Ar kun chea a nèkapaka dell chendamuni ban chak bath chumrieng dar pirous niss.

    Saum oy mean sokhapheap laar,ayo yeun you.

  • Thank you so much laukta!

  • god is the only god! get it ! or dont! ahh :)

  • gabby4you,

    which god is the only god?? jehovah?? allah?? vishnu?? see, already 3 gods!!

    anyway, who created god?? d'ohh!!

  • braziel33,

    buddha sucks?? sucks what?? your mom' pussy?? d'ohh!!

  • wen jesus was gone for 12 years unrecorded he went to india and became a Bodhistva

  • JESUS was a bodhisatva :)

  • your hatred comes from a negative energy. i have always been a catholic but you are blinded by hate, i dont hate you i will pray for your path to be illuminated.

  • So He is, so He is...the Only God. Now what does that have to do with getting rid of hate, anger, lust and confusion in your mind? Jesus may be the key, but you have to turn it and open the doors with your own effort. So go practice getting rid of any hate, fear, and confusion in your mind, that you may be ready to receive Him with all of your senses clean and pure when the time comes.

  • One word: peace One action: love One need: forgiveness

  • Why all of this unneeded hatred on a simple video, friends? Listen to the music and find your inner peace, rather than fighting over a Computer screen and Key boards! It only fuels the fire of others.

    Please don't fight, comrades.

  • This is a nice song, it helps me meditate and think of how small are my problems - THANK YOU FOR POSTING !

  • ok i am sorry i said that but i am a CHRISTian im sorry i hated on ur belifs but it doesent mean u curse of my lord.

  • totallyxoxo,

    if you reply 2 me, you should click the "Reply" button at the post of mine 2 which you reply. i'm aware of this post of yours only bcoz i visited this site on my own will.

    ok. 2 defend buddhism against christianity, & here is a very appropriate place 2 do so bcoz it's a buddhist page, i use the offensive approach, & that is 2 attack christianity, which is full of weak points. well, all of its points are weak.

  • May peace, love, joy and serenity be your holy weapons against evil and my the lotus and cross protect you upon your path of enlightenment, May the Cosmic Christ save us from suffering , Deliver us from Bad Karma & Sin. Zen-Amen

  • gnostic2030,

    christ couldnt even save himself from bein' killed on the cross. so how can he "save" you?? d'ohh!!

    if he's "god" or if he's the "messiah", then why cant he even make his OWN people the jews accept him?? d'ohh!!

  • This is no place for the hatred that some of you users are putting out there.

    We came here to listen to the music, and perhaps read some good conversations about Buddha, or perhaps the music it'self.

    Why must you argue? why must you make others feel insignificant? Why must you hate?

    Let it go.

  • Only a fool will criticise other beliefs and their path to salvation... This is one of the main reason why this world lives in this endless cycle of suffering no one can't seem to let go of their egos. Hatrel and ignorances nevea dispell suffering only love and truth it universal truth

  • BTW, this video is horrible.

    I say it is, because all you did was place a song in the background, and Buddha's head in the picture, while the background of him is flashin in blue.....

    Nobody learned anything from. And I don't think it's good to expect people to be satisfied with just the image of Buddha. Tell us something we don't know, or haven't seen. This video has no value.

    Buddha never wanted to be worshipped.

  • I disagree this is peaceful music the message is simple and truthful; there is no reason to make a case out of it.

  • The title is faulty. Because Buddha did NOT become enlightened. He was ALREADY enlightened, just like all of us. He simply understood it and realised it.

  • I base this on the things this man has said: watch?v=rdgO4UDrwm8&feature=ch­annel_page

  • Om Mane Padme Hum

    Hare Krisha, Hare Rama

    Hari Om

    Om Shanti Shanti Om

  • hi on this page can this be humanmankind i sincerely hope not such hatred for power of your own opinion that simply cant be an individual that god wants.check your attitude and think twice peace.

  • I hear great madness here in some of these comments...I hear lost souls screaming. I hear the Buddha, Allah, Jesus, Shiva and the angles weeping.

  • Suffering is the universal truth. we can't avoid suffering. suffering such as ageing, sickness, and dying, these are the truth of life we all are facing. whether, we believe it or not, they are still the truth. like 1 plus 1 equal 2 as simple as that. Buddha tought us to learn to accept the truth(suffering). everything has happen cus it's condition. now that is also the truth..

  • And what of the forth noble truth?

  • Please remember that dukkha cannot be translated into a single English word such as 'suffering.'

  • Boring ass shit.

  • but better than allah's shit right.

  • he he. allah is the real crap. that dog shit eating child molester. now get the fuck out from buddhist videos you smelly muslim cunts.

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  • if you realy want to know budda, you have to move beyond mindmade doubts, as the answere can not be encapsulated by mind.

  • baloney

  • The fool does not know the Wise Man, but the Wise Man knows the fool

  • of course the fool knows the wise man.....they just dont understand him!

    "Dont proclaim to be wise if of the world you know nothing"

  • so you're the fool?

  • If suffering, evil and imperfection in any individual are a result of negative karma reaped from a former life, then how do suffering, evil and imperfection make their appearance in a soul's first ' incarnation'?

    If Buddhism can't answer this question, how

    can one know when he/she is paying for that

    last bad karma of his life to finally reach Nirvana through cyclical incarnations?

    This is like trying to jump out of a bottomless

    pit, when u don't know where the bottom is...?

  • Be it known to all: All dead people will be resurrect at the last judgment call. There were righteous saints whom Messiah resurrected at his resurrection. Messiah claimed that he is the lord of the living and the dead. He had shown himself so by defeating death and the grave. He said " All that believe in me tho he were dead yet shall he live." This is the hope of all that believe in him. They have to be a true followers of his tho.

  • people will always compare religions...its a fact of life. its up to us as individuals to chose to believe. whether buddha attained enlightenment or not...he most certainly influenced the indigenous culture of contries be it China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, India and many others. He set such standards of tolerance, gentleness and compassion 2wards the lower forms of life that, in the religious history of d world, we find few paralells.

  • Here is how Yashua showed compassion:

    He did it by healing the sick, lame, blind and leprosy when he walked this earthly plane.

    He blessed the children when they were brought unto him and said unto them, "such is the kingdom of heaven." Yashua is more tolerance than you think, if it wouldn't be for his long suffering, all other religions would be wiped off the earth by now. But b/c of ignorance, his grace still abound. Wat do u mean by "lower forms of life?"

  • I would guess that that would be all animals on earth, to include insects. (gulp) you mean I can't kill the annoying flies that might land on my food?

  • If you did not create it, you have no right to destroy it. Simple as that.

  • Well, might as well apply to the food you eat---who did you give thanks to after you ate

    it? Somebody own this earth and all the foods

    that grows on it. I'm sure it was not Buddha, he never claim to have created anything or did he?

    I have the right to kill them pesty fly,nats, ants...

    oh, how about lice. I got lady bugs in my house right now I like to....well, I let them die

    the natural death. Stepping on them is one way. poor bugs u aided me to have bad karma.

  • We know too much about the microscopic world to make that statement now-a-days unfortunately. So no, its not simple. Think of all the bacteria we kill everyday.

  • "abstinence from all evil, fulfilment of all good, purification of 1's mind", This is the teaching of the buddha and what he postulated. the only way to defeat the cycle of rebirth, the self must be eliminated. therfore one must eat moderately, avoid selfish acts and never be taken up with the materialistic pleasures of the world(fame, fortune). Love, compassion and wisdom are thus essential qualities if one has to attain spiritual enlightenment

  • If suffering, evil and imperfection in any individual are a result of negative karma reaped from a former life, then how do suffering, evil and imperfection make their appearance in a soul's first ' incarnation'? is there any "good'" suffering in one's life to make us a better person as a result from that suffering. How can one build a stronger character trait by avoiding suffering?

    Can something that is defiled use to purify something that is already been defiled?

  • Buddha attained enlightenment on d night of d fullmoon of Vaishakha according to TEXTUAL ACCOUNTS. it was then that he discovered d "Law of Dependent Origination'-a cycle of 12causes&effects dat conditioned d world...he also constituted d 4Noble Truths:truth of misey;truth of d cause;truth of suffering&truth of d way. He most defintely attained enlightenment. there r numerous texts&scriptures2 prove it eg.the pali texts.

  • Can we dare compare? Yashua, he came from heaven above. Lived on this earth 4 30 yrs and was put to death by the hands of sinners. Went down to hell beneath in his death, 3 days later was resurrected from the dead to live on this earth for at least 50 days and after this was ascended back to heaven and 10 days later sent the Holy Spirit upon his disciples. There were no lack of eye witnesses to testify that all these things were true. This is the true hope for mankind.

  • "Yashua, he came from heaven blah blah...There were no lack of eye witnesses to testify that all these things were true." Yes but unfortunately no one wrote it down as it happened. Look up who wrote the bible and when. None of the eye wittness wrote anything. Neither did many (if any) historians of the time who were educated (and rich enough - writing was very expensive) wirte anything.

    Dubious to say the least. No-one knows the truth whether Jesus existed or not. Or Budda, or Allah etc..

  • Mattie, You have to be a "Johnny" come lately to say that these characters don't exist. Do you know that believers in Yashua are being persecuted every day around the world. I mean, they are put to death for their faith. Why would a man or a woman be willing to die for some deity that doesn't exist? You couldn't get these people to deny their faith, b/c it is real in their souls. They have tasted goodness of Yashua and are willing to die for him--we are his witnesses!

  • Does brainwashed mean anything to you? Not wanting to be too harsh but you seem to misunderstand the meaning of life!

    Oh and by the way I do not agree with persecuting anyone based on thier failure to understand logic.

  • mattie, Yes, i been brainwashed by the blood of Yeshua! No, I'm not misunderstand the meaning of life. The first commandment say that I should the love the LORD my God with all my heart, soul, mind & strength and to love my neighbour as myself..got problem with that? Sorry to say, believers are being put in prisons, tortured, run out from their homes into the jungle and their homes are burned

    down and they did nothing but only believe in Yeshua. 500 believers killed in Orissa, 50,000 are homles

  • The 1st commandment doesnt say that. It says thou shall have no other gods but me.........written by human hands! Otherwise god acnowledges that there are other gods!!

    Brianwashed....yes I do agree with you there

    Again I say I do not agree with persecuting anyone based on thier failure to understand logic.

  • what is logic, Spoke?

  • Mattie690, If you agreed with me that I've brainwashed by the blood of Yeshua, then yourself been brainwashed in whatever book you've read, rite?

    Spiritual matter cannot be explain by logic or scientific equations, b/c they are spiritually

    discern. The evidence of creation is all around

    you, even if u deny it until the day u die. It won't

    change a frog into a tiger.

    It don't sound like you read the Bible at all to make such statement as, "no eye witness."

    God is bigger than the Universe!

  • its the way of life and teaching that make it real no facts can change what a human want to believe it only influence them.

  • Buddha is a historical fact there are relics from his time why not look up some authoritative work.

    He was not a God god but a teacher he denied God ,miracles and hell and heaven

  • you want a proof. you wanna count and judge on something thats what makes you far from the enlightment and messing up this world.

  • There is absolutely no proof that Buddah attained nirvana.

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  • PROOF and APPROVAL are two different words my friend!

  • wonderful, moves me to tears. My 3 and 4 year olds love this. Im currently working hard at breaking a cannabis habit and when i cant sleep i meditate on this, and it helping guide me through with the love it contains.

  • Om Mani Padme Hum, I cannot wait for you to break that habit. You will find Nirvana before you die, I pray.

  • And if the muslims and the jew will have me,i will go to the mosques and the synagogues as well.

  • The music is so beautiful,thank you so much darlin for sharing,you are the best,most kind,most compasisonate soul Mademoiselle Jendhumuni,i go to church when i get out of the temple,i go to temple after i get out of church,i need blessing from both christ and budha ;),bless your heart for sharing,thank you love.Because you fit all definition of the word " love " ;)

  • He is a great teacher.

  • Great!

  • ...'liar'....like you know what your talking about...ttch

  • oh my comment is shouldn't too feminine ..not should be feminine...just a thought...not all men looks like women..

  • it's just how the one who drew him imagined him...

    the symbol is important...:)

    Namo Buddha

  • The music is peaceful but I think Budda is a male, should draw him too feminine..may be the artist is a woman

  • Ew, I had to learn about this in school. Bad memories. lets just say i didnt do too good on this chapter.

  • peacefully enlightening inspiration...

    peace,peace,peace...from peace creation became life....beautiful

  • the song is nice but i don'y believe in buddha because after all he was just a normal person just liKE ALL of us.

  • As you said, He WAS just a normal person. And the difference is, unlike ALL (if not most) of us, He has already achieved Enlightenment (which goes without saying Buddhahood) and He used His life to show us we can also achieve the same end, that there is a Buddha nature in ALL of us whether we are conscious of it or not.

  • that is truth...so as Jesus ..Mohammad too...sometimes people just pick what they want to believe instead what is there worth to believe...complicate eh.

  • My Buddha was stolen from it's perch on a spring-fed waterfall earlier this year. :-(

  • I'm so sorry to hear that. Can't believe someone did this to you :)

  • i do not like it in my opinion.

    i am a JESUS follower but i researched about this an it is very peaceful and pretty:)

  • So beautiful this video. I do like it.

  • lovely video my dear friend God bless! love & peace ~rajesh

  • Thank You so much My Dear Friend!

  • Isn't it curious the similarity of St Francis of Assis'and Siddhartha Gautama Buddha's lives? I mean their lives have so many parallels: both born from a wealthy family and many years later decided to give up all material attachement in search for spirituality and wisdom.

    Don't you think it may be the same incarnation in different places and time?

  • Yes, that is so true!

    For the incarnation, I will have to do some more research. You may be right.

  • Exactly! That was the very first thing I recall wondering when studing world religions. I always had the impression that Buddah and St. Francis of Assis are the one and only (the same) incarntion.

    And you know what? I studied in Franciscans' and missionaries schools when being a child/teenager :)

    As for the incarnation, I suggest you do some reasearch on Christianity, Hindu and Buddhism.

    Love,

    Vanesa

  • Oh, Señor, hazme un instrumento de Tu Paz. Donde hay odio, que lleve yo el Amor. Donde haya ofensa, que lleve yo el Perdón. Donde haya discordia, que lleve yo la Unión. Donde haya duda, que lleve yo la Fe. Donde haya error, que lleve yo la Verdad. Donde haya desesperación, que lleve yo la Alegría. Donde haya tinieblas, que lleve yo la Luz. Oh, Maestro, haced que yo no busque tanto ser consolado, sino consolar; ser comprendido, sino comprender; ser amado, como amar.
  • Porque es:

    Dando, que se recibe;

    Perdonando, que se es perdonado;

    Muriendo, que se resucita a la

    Vida Eterna.

    San Francisco de Asís (1181-1226)

  • watch?v=1UEOZGFzPas

  • first I really love this video, thank you for posting.

    For those that do not understand, Shakyamuni Buddha(Gautama) taught that THERE ARE sufferings in life. Life is not always suffering but there is suffering. You were born, grow up, turn ill, then die. Within that period of time, you suffered alot such as losing someone close, such as feeling the pain from anger, hatred, greedy, because these attachment caused suffering.

  • -continue-

    His teaching is that, if your mind is at ease, at peaceful state, if you can let go of attachments that cause suffering. You will feel ultimate bliss, true happyness. That is true enlightenment, then enter nirvana, BUT if you cling onto your attachments without letting go of it, it will caused you to take rebirth in Samsara, with rebirth due to your karma over and over until you reach enlightenment.

    You cannot deny that people doesn't suffer in life no matter what

  • in buddhism practice, there are precepts and sometime you ask why people recite, first recite buddha(the enlightened being)names is to provoke the buddha nature within us that is buried deep down by delusion of attachments. We all have buddha nature, "buddha" just simply mean the awakened one. Also believe is buddhas/bodhisattva will protect/bless/guide you as you recite. It also help you to focus your mind, so you can see through delusions.

  • when we can see through our delusion which is caused by attachment, we no longer hold greed, anger, hatred toward anyone, you will come to a realization, without any of negative thoughts, you mind will be provoke to have compassion for other beings who is suffering with attachments. With compassion, like "bodhisattva", they realize enlightenment but choose to stay and help sentient beings attain enlightenment before they attain buddhahood.

  • when having compassion, then you will of course have forgiveness. That doesn't mean you dont have compassion if you are not enlightened. Everybody have compassion, it's just covered up by delusions. When enlightened, you have compassion, wisdom, and let go of your attachments, therefore you are no longer only think of yourself only, But for ALL beings,therefore you will have ultimate compassion for all beings.

    I hope it was not confusing

  • Free Tibet

  • Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo

  • One can only imagine how Siddhartha would react to the Sokka Gakki practice of chanting with the intention of receiving material wealth, objects, status, and so on. It seems to be counterintuitive in light of the limited principles of Buddhism I've been exposed to through online documents and videos. Of course I realize that type of research hardly makes me a scholar on the topic so my confusion may just be due to ignorance.

  • "Material wealth, objects and status" aren't the objectives of the Soka Gakkai at all. One becomes happy through an inner transformation and subsequently shares that happiness with others. Material wealth, objects and status are external factors that can't make you happy.

  • I was taught once in a buddist history class that a women once asked buddah himself if women would be allowed to become monks(this is before women can be monks of course) and buddah at first said no. Soon later he changed his mind, and when she asked him "why did you not let women become monks in the first place"? He said somthing like about the lifespan of Buddism will be cut short from 10,000yrs to 5,000yrs, however, it is unfair to deny women of the path to enlightenment.

  • I dont recall the exact detail though ;p.

    In any case, when i hear story of wisdom and faith it has always brought me to a peaceful state of mind. And to say im not even hardcore buddist praticioner

  • There was a meeting held in 90s with the Dalai Lama and many well respected eastern and western practitioners (Jack Kornfield, Steven Levine, etc).

    During the meeting a female Tibetan monk told the people in attendance stories of the present day treatment of women in monasteries in the east. How this had been usual practice for over two thousand years.

    Afterward the Dalai Lama put his head into his hands and wept.

    And then promised to that woman that it would not continue to be so.

  • whos a buddist?well, y i want to look at this is because that i kno him in my history live book... like a history book. so yrea

  • THTS WUHTS UP!

    KEEP D0iN WUHT CHU D0!

  • If 2 witches were watching 2 watches, which witch was watching which watch?

  • Eazy 2c, very funny!

  • Are you telling me Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball?

  • depends on who is throwing it.

  • JESUS CHRIST FTW!

  • buddism last time i checked has been around for only about 2,500 years

  • May Buddhism last 5,000 years and beyond.

    Sakal

  • omg that's wat im learning in ss o.o

  • ☺ When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. ~ William Blake ☺

  • One thing that is irksome is when people thing the buddha is fat. When did that start? That fat buddha lookalike is the Thailands (Dont remember the name of the religon) god of booze. The buddha is skinny. Very very skinny. And you dont rub is belly.

    Its irksome when you tell someone this and they flip out.

  • Actually the image of the fat buddha is a symbolic one of his spiritual englightenment. In Chinese, the center just below your navel is called the Dan-Tien and is where you channel your energy through during qi-gong and Tai-Chi. That is why there is a great focus on breathing and the Dan-Tien during such meditative exercises.

  • and so the Buddha being portrayed as having a big belly is just a symbolic image of him having an extremely well developed control of his life force energy coursing through his body through the Dan-Tien. Siddartha Gautama wasn't fat either in the physical sense because he taught his disciples to take care of the body and mind, and to avoid extremes (too skinny/too fat).

  • Thanks for clearing that up.

  • Thanks for clearing that up.

  • Fuck buddhism!

    Buddhism is satanic! All it does is prevent mankind from enjoying themselves and it also states that life is evil and there is no after life or reincarnation that once you reach nirvana you just vanish into thin.

  • dont talk shit