What needs & desires find all humanity, happiness! Health! Peace. Freedom from suffer. How can we most effectively find the happiness, peace we seek & minimize our unhappiness and discomfort by creating & maintaining healthy mind.
Feb 11
The Mind and Life Institute
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Feb 10
Came to learn Meditation
An Italian professor has read all about, and studied, Meditation for a long time. He travels to see a living Zen Master and completes his research, but not as he expected…..
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Feb 06
Aids to the Abhidhamma Philosophy
By Dr. C. B. Dharmasena – M.B.B.S. (London)
No enthusiastic follower of the Buddha, nor earnest seeker after the truth, and no student of psychology or philosophy, be he a follower of the Buddha or not, can afford to do without a knowledge of the Abhidhamma philosophy, which has been handed down to us by one who not only attained perfection himself but pointed out to us the path by which we ourselves may obtain permanent release from all suffering. The Buddha has passed on to us not only the knowledge of his philosophy, but also the practical manner by which each one of us may convert that knowledge into understanding, through meditative development along the lines of the “One and only way, the Way of the Fourfold Setting up of Mindfulness”;1 therefore the oftrepeated criticism that Buddhism is only a philosophy and not a religion, is without any foundation whatsoever.
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Feb 04
When Does Human Life Begin in This Body? – Ven Ajahn Brahmawamso Thero
What Did the Buddha Say? “(Human life begins) when in the mother’s womb…………
What Did the Buddha Mean? Human life begins when……………..
When Does A New Human Life Begin? The embryo designates the unborn being in the first 8 weeks….
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Feb 03
Buddhism and Modern Science – Dr. Chandana Jayaratne
Dr. Chandana Jayaratne, Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Colombo & Consultant -Astronomy and Space Applications, Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
Use of modern scientific knowledge to understand what happened during meditation, Pancha Abhinnas and some of the concepts described in Buddhism gave an tremendous impact to the acceptance of Buddhism as a world religion having practical applicability than any other religion. Development of several scientific methods and instruments such as computer generated methods on testing esp ability of individual persons, electroencephalographs (EEG) to record brain wave patterns, artificial stimuli given to certain sections of the brain that will regenerate some of above conditions and the Frequency Following Response (FFR) technique developed after studying the brain wave patterns under meditation to regenerate similar state of trance had lead to study the Buddhist meditation techniques and concepts like Pancha Abhinna by the scientists giving much recognition to the Buddhism and its application in daily life.
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Jan 30
Oba Thula Oba
ඔබ තුල ඔබ
අප ජීවිතයේ අහිමිවුනු දේවල් ගැන දුක්වීමෙන් පලක් නැත. අහිමිවුනු දේවල් ගැන ඔබ තවමත් දුක්වන්නේ ඔබට හිමිවෙන්න තියෙන දේවල් ගැන සතුටුවෙන්න ඉඩතියෙන නිසයි. මම කියන්නේ අහිමි වුනාම දුක් වෙන්නත් එපා, හිමි වුනාම සතුටු වන්නත් එපා.දෙකම අයින් කරන්න. නිදහස් නැද්ද දැන්….ඔබ ඔබ ගැන සොයාගන්න, එවිට ඔබට ලෝකය වැටහේ.
මෙතෙක් කල් ඔබ කලේ කුමක්ද? එක් එක් අයගේ ගුණ! අගුණ !සොය.. සොයා ගියා. එක් එක් අය විවේචනය කර කර ගියා. දැන් මෙය නවත්වා ඔබ තුල ඔබ සොයාගන්න. එවිට මේ ලෝකේ පරම සත්‍ය ඔබ තුලම ඇතිබව ඔබටම තේරුම්ගත හැකිවෙයි.
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Jan 30
Dying, Death and Beyond – Ven Ajhan Brahmavamso Thero
As a Buddhist you do not have to worry of dying. because you know that you have had this experience many times before…..….
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Jan 29
Sankhara – Ven Nawala Dhammananda Thero
සංඛාර
නාවල ධම්මානන්ද හිමි
රූප උපාදානාස්කන්ධය, වේදනා උපාදානාස්කන්ධය සංඥා උපාදානාස්කන්ධය, සංඛාර උපාදානාස්කන්ධය යන හතර සහිත විඤ්ඤාණය උපාදානවීම මත තමයි මෙලොව හා පරලොව අතර ගමන් කරන ධර්මය සිදුවන්නේ.කිසිදාක විඤ්ඤාණය, රූප, වේදනා සංඤ්ඤා සංඛාරා කියන අනිත් ධර්ම හතර නැතිව කිසි තැනක නොපවතින බව බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ ධර්මයෙහි දේශනා වුණා. ඒ කොතැනද? (සංයුක්ත නිකාය උපායවග්ග 2 සූත්‍රය) රූපස්කන්ධයෙන් තොරව, වේදනාස්කන්ධයෙන් තොරව,සංඤ්ඤාස්කන්ධයෙන් තොරව සංඛාරා ස්කන්ධයෙන් තොරව, විඤ්ඥාණස්ස ස්කන්ධයාගේ ඒමක් හෝ යාමක් හෝ පැවැත්මක් හෝ දියුණුවක් හෝ කිසි දෙයක් පනවනවයි කියල එකක් කිසි කලෙක වෙන්නට බෑ ඒ මොකද? විඤ්ඤාණය යම් තැනක නම් පවතින්නේ ඒ පවතින තැන රූප වේදනා සංඥා සංඛාර කියන හතර පැවතිය යුතුය.
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Jan 28
Digging mine in Afghanistan unearths 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery – By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:47 AM on 15th November 2010.
A Chinese company digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan has unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery.
Archaeologists are rushing to salvage what they can from a major 7th century B.C. religious site along the famed Silk Road connecting Asia and the Middle East.
The ruins, including the monastery and domed shrines known as ‘stupas,’ will likely be largely destroyed once work at the mine begins.
The ruins were discovered as labourers excavated the site on behalf of the Chinese government-backed China Metallurgical Group Corp, which wants to develop the world’s second largest copper mine, lying beneath the ruins
Hanging over the situation is the memory of the Buddhas of Bamiyan — statues towering up to 180 feet high in central Afghanistan that were dynamited to the ground in 2001 by the country’s then-rulers, the Taliban, who considered them symbols of paganism.
No one wants to be blamed for similarly razing history at Mes Aynak, in the eastern province of Logar. MCC wanted to start building the mine by the end of 2011 but under an informal understanding with the Kabul government, it has given archaeologists three years for a salvage excavation.
Archaeologists working on the site since May say that won’t be enough time for full preservation.
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