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Re: Pristine Pure Land Buddhism
July 13, 2024
Wonderful Metaphors in the Pure Land School
The parable of “Two Rivers and a White Path” by Master Shandao
6. “ Right Attention” Means Exclusive Recitation of Amitabha’s Name
“Right attention” means exclusive recitation of “Namo Amitabha Buddha”, “even just ten times”.
In the Pure Land teachings, a practitioner who aspires to be reborn in the Western Land of Bliss through exclusive recitation of Amitabha’s name, like the traveler in the fable who goes straight towards the west without deviation, is considered to have right attention. Put simply, it is the attitude of a practitioner who believes in and accepts Amitabha’s deliverance through the exclusive practice of Amitabha-recitation.
Namo Amituofo!
Bunks
Re: Stillness… quiet… the body
@lobster said:
But 'you' are not a sensation.
Awww!
That is me and memes and GNU-gurus down the drain then...
...or perhaps not?Tee hee. Just when we thought we were something! Nothing. Nada. Rein. Mu. Tsk, tsk.
I'll be in the nowhere corner, with nowhere to go and not even me for company...
You have nowhere to go, and you cannot run away from yourself... even when there is nothing. 
Impermanent are all compounded things.
When one perceives this with true insight,
one becomes detached from suffering; this is the path
of purification.
Re: Stillness… quiet… the body
Thus have I heard (and to some extent experienced) ...
There is no "permanently" abiding self ...and not no-self whatsoever...
The sense of self comes and goes, chops and changes, like all things it is a state of flux
Transient alas are all component things
Subject are they to birth and then decay
Having gained birth, to death the life flux swings
Bliss truely dawns when unrest dies away
Shoshin1
Re: Is the Buddha an experimentalist?
Then again, maybe too much experimentation can go wrong and isn't always for the best and there is much merit in following an established path.
person
Re: Stillness… quiet… the body
Making it look more youthful? Possibly regeneration?
Reminds me of the Contemplations…1&2
"'I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging.' This is the first fact that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained.
"'I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness.' ....
I think how you look at a certain age has a lot to do with genes and lifestyle
That being said…I can appreciate this kind of meditation…it’s giving body scan/mindfullness.
Vastmind
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“A Buddhist monk once told me: "All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know." What he meant, of course, was this: I have learned to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus have I found peace.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Jeroen
Re: Is the Buddha an experimentalist?
"Go on - try it yourself!" as Neil Buchanan (Art Attack, UK kid's TV programme) would say.
All learning is experimental.
federica
Re: Is the Buddha an experimentalist?
Buddhism is a teaching of action, of application. Teachings without action are like trying to start a fire by describing the flame. Application, action, is needed to prove the teaching.
1. Does the teaching make sense?
2. Can it be rationally and universally applied - can it be tested?
3. Does the practice (application) render positive results?
One might say,
"As I have been practicing, I have noticed my environment is better, people are
friendlier."
However, as the body bends, so must the shadow follow - As one's environment is a reflection of oneself, (the shadow) it is the practitioner (the body) who has changed. His or her environment reflect that change.
As I am a slow writer and the hours grow late, I must stop (or pause) here.
Peace to all
Lionduck