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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 Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta, MN 63 [9] and 72 [10] contains a list of ten unanswered questions about certain views (ditthi): The world is eternal. The world is not eternal. The world is (spatially) infinite. The world is not (spatially) infinite. The being imbued with a life force is identical with the body.
With this emphasis on silence the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa served as a forerunner of the approach of the Ch'an/Zen tradition, with its avoidance of positive statements on 'ultimate reality': The Zen tradition is avowedly the Buddhism of Vimalakirti's silence—a claim that is explicitly reinforced by the practice of silent meditation. [30]
Right view is the first factor of the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path, the path that leads to the cessation of suffering. [1] Right view is considered the "forerunner" of all other path factors. [ 2 ] Historically, this particular discourse has been used as a primer for monks in South and Southeast Asian monasteries [ 3 ] and is read aloud ...
Dorie Chevlen on a silent retreat gone wrong and mastering the art of speaking the truth.
Glenn Wallis states: "By distilling the complex models, theories, rhetorical style and sheer volume of the Buddha's teachings into concise, crystalline verses, the Dhammapada makes the Buddhist way of life available to anyone...In fact, it is possible that the very source of the Dhammapada in the third century B.C.E. is traceable to the need of ...
The Digha Nikaya consists of 34 [1] discourses, broken into three groups: . Silakkhandha-vagga—The Division Concerning Morality (suttas 1-13); [1] named after a tract on monks' morality that occurs in each of its suttas (in theory; in practice it is not written out in full in all of them); in most of them it leads on to the jhānas (the main attainments of samatha meditation), the ...
Sacca (Sanskrit: सत्य) is a Pali word meaning "real" or "true". [1] In early Buddhist literature, sacca is often found in the context of the "Four Noble Truths", a crystallization of Buddhist wisdom. In addition, sacca is one of the ten pāramīs or "most high" a bodhisatta must develop in order to become a Buddha.