Visiting Shwedagon with S N Goenka

This beautiful Buddhist site with its golden pagodas has been accurately described as a "celestial city". The real gold is in the dhamma.

More than 500 vipassana meditation students of S N Goenka visit Schwedagon in Yangon, Myanmar. Before dawn the pagoda is lit up by lights but is most spectacular as the Sun just rises.

http://www.dhamma.org/
http://www.shwedagon.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda

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[kao1306]

Buddha Is Not A Vegetarian

69. To disrupt the Sangha, Devadatta asked the Buddha to make stricter rules of conduct for the Sangha. He asked that monks not be allowed to sleep in houses or eat any meat. But the Buddha refused and said: "If some monks prefer to sleep in the open or not eat meat, they are free to do so. But if they do not wish to live this way they do not have to." ... "Devadatta, if you try to break up the Sangha you will reap the evil fruits."

.... Story Of Buddha No.69

[artynz]

@kao1306 Buddha was not vegetarian. However he did forbid the monks from accepting meat if they suspected that the animal had been killed to feed them. On left over meat was to be consumed. The important thing is the volition - let me not be deliberately responsible, even indirectly, for the death of any being.

[cfelipelima]

Very beautiful! The most important thing that hapened in my life was to find Budism, the Dahmma!

[lldanj]

May all beings be happy.

[kao1306]

@artynz.... Sadhu.....Sadhu....

[yarzaryeni]

@smartmoron ႏွမလိုး.. မေအလိုး... ကိုယ္ေမကိုလိုး...

[jonnyhatter35]

I tells ya, Goenka, he's all right in my book. I like that wise ol' boy :)

[digimaton]

nice theory, but in real world terms it simply has not been proven to be true, sure, historically we have had on this planet periods of peaceful co-existence, but they have been punctuated by periods of extreme violence. Unless you attempt re-engineer society form the bottom up (using genetic alteration) the likelihood of violence arising will always be there, it's a case of hawks and doves.

Utopian ideology is all well and good but the material realm has it's downsides, that won't change.

[mgundawar]

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Move/shake it as little as possible. Keep it as much steady as possible.

[kao1306]

The Real Religion Is Simply Watching And Observing The Operations And Mechanisms Of The Brain.That Is The Direct And Intimate Experiences Of Individual,Not The Reflections Of Any Existing Concepts,Outlines,Philosophies­,Religions Or Any Knowlege Of Suttras,Bibles,Incantation,Koa­n,Koran,Etc,.