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What is Buddhism (in a nutshell)?
I'd say that "Buddhist" (as an adjective) includes:
Doctrines (spoken and written) ascribed to the Buddha -- Buddhavacana -- and derivative works
Practices inspired or prescribed by those ...
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What is funeral law of Buddhism?
There is some information about funerals at this link.
When I lived in a forest monastery in Thailand, dead monks & residents were cremated on a pile of wood in the forest & we would ...
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Buddhism view on idol worship?
According to the Pali suttas, the Buddha seemed to praise honoring him & his virtues, i.e., for the right purpose (such as did not occur in the case of Vakkali, who was rebuked).
If a Buddha ...
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Where is the sutta passage for the following citation of the description of a kalpa?
This seems to be from SN 15.5. You can find similar similes in other suttas of SN 15. SN is samyutta nikaya, in this case, not sutta nipata.
Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to ...
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Where in the canon does the Buddha teach about mindfulness?
Here is a good description of mindfulness (sati) directed to the body. It's similar for mindfulness directed to other things.
“Bhikkhus, suppose that on hearing, ‘The most beautiful girl of the
land! ...
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Where in the canon does the Buddha teach about mindfulness?
There are 56 samyutta's in the SN, the 47'th SN is devoted to the topic of "mindfulness" (sati).
SN 47 Sati-'paṭṭhāna 🐘 Saṃyutta
https://lucid24.org/sn/sn47/index.html (disclosure: my ...
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What is Buddhism (in a nutshell)?
The distinguishing factor of a religion is soteriology — theory of salvation — which has two components:
An assertion (or recognition, perhaps) that life in the temporal world contains trials, ...
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What is Buddhism (in a nutshell)?
In a nutshell:
The Buddha taught that there is suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the way to end suffering permanently.
Suffering is in the mind and originated by the ...
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What is Buddhism (in a nutshell)?
"The second reason for regarding the scholastic approach as misguided can be seen in all the evidence we have cited that the Buddha was not trying to build a systematic description of reality — ...
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Opinions and beliefs
In (Pali) Buddhism, what leads to suffering is craving & attachment rather than opinions. Opinions in themselves are not necessarily suffering. It is only attachment to opinions or opinions born ...
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Is there a budhistic way to experience suppressed emotions?
By prolonged meditation, suppressed emotions & experiences will generally inevitably rise into to the surface of consciousness awareness.
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The Buddha and the Gods realm
Here's one reference in DN 1:
"There comes a time, bhikkhus, when after the lapse of a long period
this world contracts (disintegrates). While the world is contracting,
beings for the most part ...
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The Buddha and the Gods realm
Another reference is MN 49 in which the Buddha contradicts a God (named Baka Brahma):
When this was said, I told Baka Brahma, 'How immersed in ignorance is Baka Brahma! How immersed in ignorance is ...
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The Buddha and the Gods realm
The fate of the gods does not always end well.
AN1.356-358:1.1: “… the sentient beings who die as gods and are reborn as humans are few, while those who die as gods and are reborn in hell, or the ...
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The Buddha and the Gods realm
the gods realm is part of the cycle of existence.
Correct, while devas' lifespan is much longer than ours and they enjoy a lot more bliss/pleasure, they too will die eventually:
This was said by the ...
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Who is experiencing the non self?
Why, of course Buddha is experiencing the non-self. Arahant is experiencing the non-self. Bodhisattva from the first Bhumi and above is experiencing the non-self.
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Who is experiencing the non self?
There are several questions on this site which are more-or-less about this topic.
One which I found helpful was, How is it wrong to believe that a self exists, or that it doesn't?
I also liked this ...
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