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Noble Silence is a term attributed to the Gautama Buddha, for his reported responses to certain questions about reality. One such instance is when he was asked the fourteen unanswerable questions . In similar situations he often responded to antinomy-based descriptions of reality by saying that both antithetical options presented to him were ...
The Buddha-range of the Buddhas [i.e., the range of powers a Buddha develops as a result of becoming a Buddha]; The jhana-range of one absorbed in jhana [i.e., the range of powers that one may obtain while absorbed in jhana]; The [precise working out of the] results of kamma (Karma in Sanskrit);
A vow of silence is a vow taken to avoid the use of speech. Although the concept is commonly associated with monasticism , no religious order takes such a vow, and even the most austere monastic orders such as the Carthusians have times in their schedule for talking.
The Buddha, on the other hand, did not accept that these texts had any divine authority or value. [373] The Buddha also did not see the Brahmanical rites and practices as useful for spiritual advancement. For example, in the Udāna, the Buddha points out that ritual bathing does not lead to purity: only "truth and morality" lead to purity.
Another possible reason why the Buddha refused to engage in metaphysics is that he saw ultimate reality and nirvana as devoid of sensory mediation and conception and therefore language itself is a priori inadequate to explain it. [60] Thus, the Buddha's silence does not indicate misology or disdain for philosophy.
The Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra (Taishō 120 [1]) is a Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture belonging to the Tathāgatagarbha class of sūtra, [2] which teach that the Buddha is eternal, that the non-Self and emptiness teachings only apply to the worldly sphere and not to Nirvāṇa, and that the Tathāgatagarbha is real and immanent within all beings and all phenomena.
This is Why Cinema and Inna Payán’s Animal de Luz Films have licensed drama “Todo el silencio” (“All the Silence”) to Prime Video. This follows that of Animal de Luz’s licensing of ...
The Buddha enters the chamber and begins meditating, the nāga then appears and angrily creates smoke. The Buddha responds by entering into a "fire-element" meditation and using his psychic powers to create his own smoke. [25] [26] The nāga then fills the chamber with fire, which the Buddha responds to by bursting into flames and becoming fire ...