Buddhism: Prostrations Part II

Thank you for the clear and beautiful teaching of prostraton.

Well, for one thing, they believe in good spelling. ;-)

Way to make Buddhism look like Catholicism, with all its rote repetition and unnecessarily complex rituals. What does this have to do with the Dhamma as taught by the Buddha and recorded in the Pali scriptures?

How do you know there is a creator? You do not even understand the basics of Buddhism for if you did, you would not think they Buddhists worship images, nor do we consider the Buddha as a god, nor do we consider the stone to be Buddha. Did you not hear of the master who used a statue for firewood?

Sounds as though you are attached to form.

Thank you Ven. Thubten Chodron!
Really helpful. I always did a prostration with my handpalms closed without knowing about the supplementary visualizations :p. In books one can't learn rituals etc. that adequately :).

This video is so helpful to me! I understand the meanings that she explains so lovingly. Thank you.

i think a person or being that created all of this would obviously be kind enough to not want to be worshiped or thanked. wouldn't he have just done all of this because that is how great he, she, or it is.

Interesting. I'm a Buddhist, & read an article from Ven. Paula Chichester in 'Mandala'* magazine on challenges & obstacles in a 5-year Yamantaka retreat:

"The retreat blew apart every relative attachment, even to Dharma. It was very scary because it affected everything I have faith in - even the deity and the guru. I came to see that my view of the guru/deity was attachment, that my connection was tinted by attachment." What a profound lesson, which only strengthened her practice thereon.