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Does the Buddha like dogs?
The Buddha taught 'birth' with an 'animal' state of mind is a state of woe (beset by chronic suffering) or lower state of 'existence' (being).
The Lokapala Sutta states that people who do not have ...
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Does hell exist in Buddhism?
Does hell exist in Buddism?
Yes it does. It is a destination in which you mental state is painful and also painful mental states are sometimes called hell. Hell is mentioned in Bala Pandita Sutta. ...
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Watching crime in apps or website
Let's separate this out. If you watch a recording of a crime on a website, does it impact the victim of the crime? Not in itself.
It DOES give a "view" to the video, and thus you are, in a sense, ...
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Does the Buddha like dogs?
Mata yatha niyam puttam
Ayusa eka-putta-manu rakkhe
Evampi sabba-bhutesu
Manasam-bhavaye apari-manam
Quoted from Karaniya Metta Sutta Here it's meaning.
Even as a mother protects with her life ...
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Is the Buddha nature nothingness or the Dharmakaya?
According to Yogacara, buddha nature is a seed in the mind basis of all. According to Madhyamika, buddha nature is the emptiness of the mind of a sentient being. It is not the dharmakaya.
Dharmakaya ...
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How to differentiate between a spiritual experience and a mental disorder or delusion?
If you suffer and make others suffer, that's a disorder. If you are happy and make others happy, that's a good result. Although sometimes it has to get worse before it can get better.
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Why Buddha didn't want him to be called 'friend' by the monks?
When they first saw him they thought, "He is inferior to us (because he is given to luxury, forsaking the striving, etc.)."
When he approached them they no longer thought that, but still ...
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If sex is prohibited, how do we survive?
Sex is prohibited for monks and nuns
If you are not observing higher precept like 8 or 10 precepts sex is not prohibited for lay person. Lay person has only to adhere to 5 Precepts. This prohibits ...
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How to Attain Peace?
By acknowledging your anxious mood as a truth (dhamma). Don't push it away, don't try to change anything, don't blame or criticize yourself. It is a truth and therefore has the 3 characteristics of ...
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What does it mean by 'All beings have a Buddha nature'?
It is not just Dogen's translation. The Nirvana Sutra states that all beings have Buddha Nature. You can also check Mark Blum or Yamamoto's translations.
However, Dogen played with the initial ...
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How to differentiate between a spiritual experience and a mental disorder or delusion?
Giving too much importance or attachment to any experience either actual or delusional will lead to metal instability and perhaps delusion. So if you experience something then congratulations, this is ...
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What is right gifting?
In the definition of Parikkhāra I'm drawn to the second meaning, i.e.,
(b) In a special sense and in very early use it refers to the "set of necessaries" of a Buddhist monk & comprises the 4 ...
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Tathagatagarbha and dhammakaya
No, they are not synonyms. They are mutually exclusive: If it is 'tathagatagarbha', then it is not 'dhammakaya'. If it is 'dhammakaya', it is not 'tathagatagarbha'.
Tathagatagarbha is 'suchness with ...
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How to Attain Peace?
When anxiety arises, we should fully acknowledge its arising, by thinking or noting: "I feel anxious; I feel anxious" or simply: "Anxiety has arisen; anxiety has arisen".
Then start to investigate ...
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Does the Buddha like dogs?
You tagged this question buddha-nature -- I'm not sure if that tag is relevant.
There's a famous koan about a dog and "Buddha-nature" -- see Joshu's Dog -- which this question reminds me of.
Maybe we'...
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Interdependent origination
The doctrine of (Inter) Dependent Origination is solely the doctrine of the Buddha & unrelated to the Vedas. If it was related to the Vedas there would be no Buddha and no Buddhism since the term '...
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Which body of the Buddha belongs to the Buddha nature?
What do you mean by "Buddha nature"? I think it means:
Anyone is Buddha, as soon as he stops to generate vexations.
That fact can be described as: "We all are Buddha by nature, we only differ from ...
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Buddhists advise against "me and mine" does that include times?
These are covered in the:
15 Wrong / Right Views
16 Doubts
108 thought-courses motivated by craving mentioned in this answer
15 Wrong / Right Views
Let go of the past
“How, bhikshus, does ...
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Under what conditions does a Samyaksambuddha arise?
My question is under what conditions Buddha arises?
There's no set patterns. For example Buddha Gotama came during a relatively uneventful period where human life span was within normal range. ...
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"Anyone can be enlightened"
Anybody has the ability to become enlightened however different parts of Buddhism have different beliefs on how this happens. Everybody already has the seed of Buddha hood/ Nivada inside them which is ...
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What is right gifting?
There are two main pints two your question, And Lord Buddha directly answered both of those and here is the extended answer.....
What is the correct detachment?
An example from lord Buddha......
One ...
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How to differentiate between a spiritual experience and a mental disorder or delusion?
Conventionally, the people who are concerned (for example a family member or doctor) may consider a mental state to be "disordered" if:
It's persistent
You're unable (not to mention "...
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Why Buddha didn't want him to be called 'friend' by the monks?
Respect of the Buddha and the Dharma -- both of which are tied together -- must pre-exist for the successful study of the Buddha's Dharma and to attain the fruits.
As much as we cherish the Buddha's ...
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If sex is prohibited, how do we survive?
So the real question is what a person needs. It's either the continuance of the Human Race or being free from personal Suffering. Before anything else let's look at what Lord Buddha said about Humans.
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Does hell exist in Buddhism?
Yes, hell exists in Buddhism as a literal real place as real as this world we live in, but there many hellish worlds and they are temporary (though many can last for extremely long time-periods).
In ...
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Does hell exist in Buddhism?
Yes, according to Buddhism, hell exists. Individuals who have accumulated bad karma may be reborn in hell, the animal realm, as ghosts, or even in the human world but with great difficulties. Hell is ...
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