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Guessing at letters traced with the finger in the air or on a friend's back. (letters in the Brahmi script) Guessing a friend's thoughts. Imitating deformities. Playing with someone's ears, eyes or nose; Although the modern game of chess had not been invented at the time the list was made, earlier chess-like games such as chaturaji may have ...
Blox Fruits (formerly known as Blox Piece), is an action fighting game created by Gamer Robot that is inspired by the manga and anime One Piece. [165] In the game, players choose to be a master swordsman, a powerful fruit user, a martial arts attacker or a gun user as they sail across the seas alone or in a team in search of various worlds and ...
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 sutta criticizes the "common worldling" who sees that the Buddha abstains from taking life, calls this virtuous, and stops there. The common worldling is not wrong in noticing that this is virtuous, but they are missing the "why" in the equation.
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);
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.
According to early Buddhist sources like the Mahāpadesasutta, a text said by someone other than the Buddha may be certified as true buddhavacana by four "great references to authority" (mahāpadeśa): (1) the buddha himself (who often certified the statements of others as buddhavacana in the sutras), (2) a sangha of wise elders, (3) a small ...
The Buddha had grown seriously ill in Vesālī, much to the concern of some of his disciples. [66] Ānanda understood that the Buddha wished to leave final instructions before his death. The Buddha stated, however, that he had already taught everything needed, without withholding anything secret as a teacher with a "closed fist" would.