Sentences with phrase «own bodhisattvas»

Bodhisattva I'm gonna sell my house in town Bodhisattva I'm gonna sell my house in town And I'll be there To shine in your Ja pan To sparkle in your China Yes I'll be there Bodhisattva

So when Hindus pray to Rama, Muslims Pray to Allah, Buddhists pray to some Bodhisattva to find that inner friend, are they are doing something different than you?

Tenzin Norbu, author, radio host, and retired philosophy professor in his article «The Bodhisattva's View of Same - Sex Marriage»

If «God Almighty» is really so petty as to require people to incant the correct name (whether it's Jesus, Mohammed, Bodhisattva, etc.), eat the «right foods», dress the «right way», treat women like dirt, etc., then God has a lot of growing up to do.

Like a Buddhist bodhisattva, God never gives up.

However, even if Zen Buddhists recognized the existence of a cosmic Bodhisattva, as do their Pure Land fellow travelers, there is a second reason why Zennists might not speak of God.

What is needed, she seems to say, is a God who is less like a benevolent dictator and more like a cosmic Bodhisattva.

The word God is a Christian word, and often when Christians use it, we refer, not to a relational Bodhisattva who adapts to each situation, but rather to a changeless and independent Consciousness who saves only Christians and who is cut off from the world by the boundaries of divine transcendence.

Christians should learn from the Buddhist Bodhisattva symbolizing compassion and mercy, one who is willing to postpone personal salvation for the sake of others.

He is still a Bodhisattva and pays homage to the Buddhas, but he is a Bodhisattva who has become Tathagata.

First comes the time of the «future Bodhisattva» whose stages of development can first in any proper sense of the word be called bhumi (stories or stages).

For the remainder of the section on the ethics of Mahayana, Wach follows quite closely de la Vallée Poussin's article «Bodhisattva» in the 1922 edition of James Hastings, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics.

They heap merit upon merit for the sake of all — they do not even spare their own bodies, as we are shown by the magnificent example of the Bodhisattva Sarvasattvapriyadarsana in the Lotus.14

Buddhists and Jews take this thinking to extremes: the bodhisattva welcomes suffering as payment for karmic debt while Jews celebrate Satan for playing the role of an adversary through whom they can prove their faith.

It is the Bodhisattva, who is striving after Buddhahood on the difficult Path of the ten stages.

Thus the virtues of merit produce the «natural body» of the Bodhisattva (rupaka - ya); but the equipment of knowledge effects the Dharma - Being (dharmakaya), in which everything divine is one.

By means of such dispositions and activities — and this concept is important for characterizing Mahayana — the «field» of the Bodhisattva is «purified.»

They are, respectively, the Gotrabhumi in which, just as the embryo carries within itself the potentiality of what it will become, so the future Bodhisattva already exists in potentiality — above all, he is good and without hate — and the Adhimukticaryabhumi, in which the «dispositions» begin to bear fruit and the «aspirations» begin to sprout.

The Bodhisattva attains the ninth stage, the stage of the «Good Ones,» by appropriating the knowledge called pratisamvid; he perfects his knowledge of the proclamation of the Teaching (pratibhana).

Therefore, the Bodhisattva remains in existence and performs miracles — without activity, strictly speaking.

How can we describe the career of the Bodhisattva — a subject to which the Saddharma - Pundarika also makes constant reference?

We are reminded of the great songs of praise in the Saddharma - Pundarika, in which the Buddha reveals to all the Bodhisattvas who have completed the course their destiny to supreme and perfect enlightenment.17

This is the breath and the substance of those beings who have been specifically created by the Mahayana belief — the Bodhisattvas.

Thus there is first of all a time of preparation for the prospective Bodhisattva, during which his disposition toward Bodhisattvahood is strengthened and he directs his thoughts toward the vow that he will one day recite.

The Buddha did it and the Bodhisattva does it after him.

Because his love has been strong, and because they once took a vow to remain visible to those who would follow them, the Bodhisattva of the next stage is permitted to enjoy the sight of the Buddhas.

«13 Like the Holy Universal Buddhas, the Bodhisattvas who follow after them take upon themselves the heaviest burdens in order to serve all suffering creatures.

The Bodhisattva is successful in whatever he does.

During the six years that the Bodhisattva practiced austerities, the demon followed behind him step by step, seeking an opportunity to harm him.

Normally, bodhisattvas and nonhistorical Buddhas, including Dainichi, were represented as Sambhogakaya forms of the eternal Dharmakaya.

9Karma Mandalas portray the «actions of awe - inspiring deportment» (rijigyo) of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in three - dimensional figures representing each particular Buddha and Bodhisattva painted in the five colors of the Great Mandala.

In all honesty, today Christians have to ask whether their own concepts of salvation are any more universal in intention than those implied, for example, in the Buddhist ideal of the bodhisattva, one who is portrayed as having such sentiments as these:

Would it be surprising if a Buddhist tendered the same sort of devotional regard toward the salvific person of the bodhisattva that Christians give to Jesus?

Well, I say (and perhaps you) that scripture is man made — no gods, no holy spirit, no bodhisattvas involved.

Thus the bodhisattva.

But not to those believers who speak of the Communion of Saints or the Vow of the Bodhisattva.

It is popular in some circles to envision the afterlife as a parliament of world religions — where Jesus and Buddha and Shankara and Muhammad and Confucius and Mahavira and Moses, along with shamans, bodhisattvas and spirit guides of all descriptions would converse and commune together.

All that's being» willfully destructed» here are the sacred cows so many of the «institutionalized» believe in... A wise woman once said: «The truth will set you free... but first, it will piss you off...» And do I think MLK, Jr. was a saint / bodhisattva?

I think that an ancient Buddhist text from the Mahayana tradition, in portraying the ideal of the bodhisattva, expresses accurately the divine sensitivity to suffering suggested by the Whiteheadian view:

The merciful bodhisattva vows not to enter blessedness himself until all living things have found redemption.

This is so because the person meditating puts himself into the position corresponding to the position of Buddha or some Bodhisattva on his way toward attaining full enlightenment.

The Bodhisattva compassionately refuses to enter nirvana until every sentient being can enter with him.

St. Joasaph, whose remembrance is annually observed in the calendar (Menaean) of the Greek Orthodox church as well as in the Martyrologium Romanum, is none other than the Bodhisattva.

It followed from the teachings of Kobo - Daishi, who in his sermons taught the people that the Shinto gods are identical with the Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist doctrines.

How do worshipers understand the evident contrast between the Maitreya Bodhisattva with his all peaceful and compassionate complexion and the haggard Jesus of the crucifix with his contorted body undergoing death spasms?

That is why, in the spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism, there are so many fierce Bodhisattvas: saint - like figures who harshly treat the ego with indifference.

An analogy may be found in the Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva ideal.

There is in the Meditation Center also «a picture of the Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva).»

In their earthly lives, the Bodhisattvas had extinguished the candle of desire, but instead of relishing nirvana, they returned to help others along the same path.

On the walls are Japanese shikihi (fine paper squares) with Zen sayings in the Sino - Japanese ideographs, two Taoist paintings and a picture of the Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva) from Koryuji, Kyoto, These are well received by people and set a good tone to the room.