Olivia Glad

Honorable
Once upon a time, there was a very righteous king. He had a lovely queen who gave birth to a beautiful baby. This made the king very happy. He decided to give his son a name that might help him in later life. So he called him Prince Goodspeaker.

It just so happened that the prince was no ordinary baby. This was not his first life or his first birth. Millions of years before, he had been a follower of a long-forgotten teaching 'Buddha' - a fully 'Enlightened One'. He had wished with all his heart to become a Buddha just like his beloved master.

He was reborn in many lives - sometimes as poor animals, sometimes as long-living gods and sometimes as human beings. He always tried to learn from his mistakes and develop the 'Ten Perfections'. This was so he could purify his mind and remove the three root causes of unwholesomeness - the poisons of craving, anger and the delusion of a separate self. By using the Perfections, he would someday be able to replace the poisons with the three purities - nonattachment, loving-kindness and wisdom.

This 'Great Being' had been a humble follower of the forgotten Buddha. His goal was to gain the same enlightenment of a Buddha - the experience of complete Truth. So people call him 'Bodhisatta', which means 'Enlightenment Being'. No one really knows about the millions of lives lived by this great hero. But many stories have been told - including this one about a prince called Goodspeaker. After many more rebirths, he became the Buddha who is remembered and loved in all the world today.
 

Milarepa

Adept
Once upon a time, there was a very righteous king. He had a lovely queen who gave birth to a beautiful baby. This made the king very happy. He decided to give his son a name that might help him in later life. So he called him Prince Goodspeaker.

It just so happened that the prince was no ordinary baby. This was not his first life or his first birth. Millions of years before, he had been a follower of a long-forgotten teaching 'Buddha' - a fully 'Enlightened One'. He had wished with all his heart to become a Buddha just like his beloved master.

He was reborn in many lives - sometimes as poor animals, sometimes as long-living gods and sometimes as human beings. He always tried to learn from his mistakes and develop the 'Ten Perfections'. This was so he could purify his mind and remove the three root causes of unwholesomeness - the poisons of craving, anger and the delusion of a separate self. By using the Perfections, he would someday be able to replace the poisons with the three purities - nonattachment, loving-kindness and wisdom.

This 'Great Being' had been a humble follower of the forgotten Buddha. His goal was to gain the same enlightenment of a Buddha - the experience of complete Truth. So people call him 'Bodhisatta', which means 'Enlightenment Being'. No one really knows about the millions of lives lived by this great hero. But many stories have been told - including this one about a prince called Goodspeaker. After many more rebirths, he became the Buddha who is remembered and loved in all the world today.

Giving, kind words, beneficial help, consistency.

These are the four grounds for the bonds of fellowship.

Lovely story little one, what did you take from it?
 

Milarepa

Adept
Nah I don't think he is 100% truthful, if I have not mistaken the Dalai lama is just a leader / chairman of a Buddhist society in Tibet and he may not always be right, imo.

It is not easy to take the measure of the great ocean as you would a bucket of water, it is simply reckoned as a great mass of water, incalculable, immeasurable.
 

Milarepa

Adept
Like you zoom out or inwards while doing everyday normal stuff ?

Letting the reptile brain do the physical work .... freeing you up to meditate

Or

There are times when it belongs to us, and times when it belongs to others.

The Buddha teaches us to plant crops on our land so that we can benefit from it.

If you don't make use of your land, it's sure to fall into other people's hands.
 

spacecase0

earth human
my take on Buddhism is that it is the first step in gaining spiritual power.
and that at some point people forgot that it is a training tool and made an entire religion out of it.
there are many more steps past it, makes Buddhism make way more sense than it does as a religion
 

Milarepa

Adept
my take on Buddhism is that it is the first step in gaining spiritual power.
and that at some point people forgot that it is a training tool and made an entire religion out of it.
there are many more steps past it, makes Buddhism make way more sense than it does as a religion

The world is something broad and always spinning, something hard to see clearly.

This is why the Buddha teaches us to stop spinning after the world, and to look only at yourself.

That's when you'll be able to see the world.
 

Diva

Honorable
It is not easy to take the measure of the great ocean as you would a bucket of water, it is simply reckoned as a great mass of water, incalculable, immeasurable.

Hi bro, welcome to AE. :)

Are you from Asia? I'm from Malaysia. We don't have much Asians here so i want to know, lol.
 
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3FEL9

Islander
There are times when it belongs to us, and times when it belongs to others.

The Buddha teaches us to plant crops on our land so that we can benefit from it.

If you don't make use of your land, it's sure to fall into other people's hands.

I am not a farmer in this reincarnation. Maybe in next I will be. I shall remember your advice :)
 

Milarepa

Adept
Hi bro, welcome to AE. :)

Are you from Asia? I'm from Malaysia. We don't have much Asians here so i want to know, lol.

Lend an ear, fair daughter of love to the instructions of wisdom and allow the tenets of truth to sink deep in your heart; so shall the charms of the mind add luster to the elegance of the beauty of the rose it resembles, and so shall retain its sweetness and fragrance.

When virtue and modesty enlighten the charms, your radiance will become brighter than the stars of heaven and the influence of your power, it is in vain to resist.
 

Milarepa

Adept
I am not a farmer in this reincarnation. Maybe in next I will be. I shall remember your advice :)

Sow the secret gifts within your possession, the greatness of the soul is not to be cast down.

To be satisfied with little, is the greatest wisdom; he that increases his inner riches - increases his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, a jewel of inestimable price.
 

Diva

Honorable
Lend an ear, fair daughter of love to the instructions of wisdom and allow the tenets of truth to sink deep in your heart; so shall the charms of the mind add luster to the elegance of the beauty of the rose it resembles, and so shall retain its sweetness and fragrance.

When virtue and modesty enlighten the charms, your radiance will become brighter than the stars of heaven and the influence of your power, it is in vain to resist.

Nice poem bro,
R u from Sri Lanka ?
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Sow the secret gifts within your possession, the greatness of the soul is not to be cast down.

To be satisfied with little, is the greatest wisdom; he that increases his inner riches - increases his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, a jewel of inestimable price.

Nice quote, there's a Tibetan saying "Gold lies deep in the earth, yet its light shines bright in the sky"...

The light of the soul shines within and without like that gold of the earth, this light is not the kind that will let you sit and read fine stories by it but it's warm and inviting, and you won't see the dust on the floor...Seriously though, people are like stained glass, they are colourful and unique, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only with that light from within....

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nivek

As Above So Below
The world is something broad and always spinning, something hard to see clearly.

This is why the Buddha teaches us to stop spinning after the world, and to look only at yourself.

That's when you'll be able to see the world.


Essence of an individual is his own, but the personality of someone is not his own, it is developed and influenced from things outside oneself...Things one has learned over time, sensations, activities, verbal words, and imitations from around and outside oneself...The essence is the truth of an individual and the personality is false, if one is too focused on personality the essence gets smothered and buried...One then cannot see the world as it really is because he cannot see himself for what he really is...

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3FEL9

Islander
That is the hardest and most difficult thing to do. To step outside the comfort zone inside oneself and look back at ones character and soul with unbiased eyes.

It takes practice and what one find can take some time to accept ( years ) and deal with in a good positive way
 
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