Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean
bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first
three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor.
Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines
in [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Buddhist Vows
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Practical Faith
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Do not be led by reports, or tradition, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, nor by considering appearances, nor by seeming possibilities; not even by the idea of the teacher.
But when you know for youselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong, and bad, then give them up … [...]
Buddha Gotama
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About 623 years before the Christian era, there was born in Lumbini Park in the neighbourhood of Kapilavatthu, now known asPadaria in the district of modern Nepal. an Indian Sakyan prince, Siddattha Gotama by name. To mark the spot as the birthplace of the greatest teacher of mankind, and as a token of his [...]
The Buddha
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A Buddha is one who has attained an ideal state of intellectual and ethical perfection which can be attained by man by purely human means.
The truth dawned upon him, and he realized that all without exception were subject to birth, decay and death and that all worldly pleasures were only a prelude to pain. Comprehending [...]
