The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering.— 苦海无边,回头是岸 Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda)— 觉悟 ...
satori - (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment enlightenment - education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge Zen, Zen Buddhism - a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collec...
These four dharmas — the four immeasurables — are the focal object of the Tathāgatas’ immeasurable primordial wisdom. Alternatively, it can be explained that primordial wisdom itself abides in the state of, or as the essence of, the four dharmas of loving kindness and the rest. This is...
We also evoke the place of nature as intertwined with the life of the imagination. Resonance, empathy, connection with the world around us - with practice, these qualities in experience can be sustained as a flowing, organic, enriching state of being. The hopeful, practical vision here - the...
to save and deliver (救度) is meant to lead totranscendence (超越) of the cycle of birth and death (生死轮回), to have liberation and departure (脱离) from all suffering and difficulties (苦难). This might seem like a tall order as it almost equates to the state of enlightenment ...
of Buddhism. Buddhism claims that human life is a cycle of suffering and rebirth, but one can escape it by achieving a state of enlightenment (nirvana). Buddhists do not believe in gods. However, they believe in supernatural figures who can help or hinder people from seeking enlightenment. ...
Soon she attained to the state of once-returner and drew nearer and nearer to nonreturner, an attainment which many men and women could achieve in lay-life in those days. Magandiya had suspended her attacks for some time, but continued to ponder how to harm the Buddha through Samavati. ...
self-enlightenment is activated by the desiring self fundamentally transforming itself into the self-nature, a process which the person experiences as a change from the self state of consciousness to the self-nature state, which in Buddhism is also called the non-self or Buddha state (無我/佛...
- 72 - As components of the state of enlightenment and contributory factors to its achievement, are mentioned in the texts: the 7 factorsof enlightenment (bojjhanga (q.v.) = bodhi-anga) and the 37 'things pertaining to enlighten- ment' (bodhipakkhiya-dhammà, q.v.). In one of the ...
(Iti 90). He also elaborated in another sutta that generosity alongside truth and self-restraint are essential to spiritual progress (AN5.256-257). Specifically, in the ability to gain Right Concentration and attaining any of the 4 stages of enlightenment (i.e., Stream-Enterer, Once Returner...