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Teacher And The Art Of - TRIBUTES TO THE BUDDHA : Teacher and the art of his life is a guiding lamp to everyone who is wandering from the right direction in the darkness.
The Buddha was born 2500 years ago. What do modern thinkers and scientists say of him and his Dhamma?
An anthology of their thoughts on the subject will be useful. Prof . S. S. Raghavachar says : The period immediately antecedent to the life of Buddha was one of the darkest ages in the history of India.
It was intellectually a backward age. The thought of the time was characterised by an implicit veneration for the authority of the scriptures. Morally it was a dark age.
Morality meant for the believing Hindus the correct performance of rites and ceremonies enjoined in the holy texts.
The reality ethical ideas like self sacrifice or purity of will did not find appropriate positions in the moral consciousness of the time.
Buddha Theory Of life
Mr. R. J. Jackson says : "The unique character of the Buddha's teaching is shown forth in the study of Indian Religious thought.
In the hymns of the Rig - Veda we see man's thoughts turned outwards , away from himself, to the world of the gods.
Buddhism directed man's search inwards to the potentiality hidden within himself.
In the Vedas we find prayer, praise, and worship.
In Buddhism for the first time we find training of the mind to make it act
In Buddhism for the first time we find training of the mind to make it act
rightously. "
Winwood Reade says :" It is when we open the book of nature, it is when we read the story of evolution thought millions of years , written in blood and tears, it is when we study the laws regulating life, the laws productive of development, that we see plainly how illusive in the theory that God is love.
In everything there is wicked profligate and abandoned waste.
Of all animals that are born only a very small percentage survives.
Eat and be eaten is the rule in the ocean, the air, the forest. Murder is the law of growth. "
This is what Reade says in his " Martyrdom of man " How different is the Dhamma of the Buddha.
This is what Dr. Ranjan Roy says :" Throughout the second half of the nine - teenth century the three laws of conversation held sway.
Nobody challenged them. They were the laws of matter, mass, and energy.
They were the trump cards of those idealists who cherished the thought of their being indestructible.
They were the trump cards of those idealists who cherished the thought of their being indestructible.
Nineteenth century scientists professed them as the governing factors of creation.
Nineteenth century scientists professed them as constituting the fundamental nature of the Universe.
Nineteenth century scientists professed them as constituting the fundamental nature of the Universe.
They conceived that the Universe was filled with indestructible atoms.
Just as the nineteenth century was drawing to a close, Sir J. J. Thompson and his followers began to hammer the atoms.
Just as the nineteenth century was drawing to a close, Sir J. J. Thompson and his followers began to hammer the atoms.
Surprisingly enough the atoms began to break up into fragments.
These fragments came to be called electrons, all similar and charged with negative electricity.
These fragments came to be called electrons, all similar and charged with negative electricity.
"Atoms hailed by Maxwell as imperishable foundation stones of the Universe or Reality broke down.
They got broken into tiny particles, protons and electrons charged with positive and negative electricity respectively.
They got broken into tiny particles, protons and electrons charged with positive and negative electricity respectively.
Roll Of Teacher And The Art Of Teaching
The concept of a fixed unalterable mass abandoned science for good.
In this century the universal belief is that matter is being annihilated at every instant.
The Buddha's doctrine of Anicca (transitoriness) is confirmed.
Science has proved that the course of the Universe is a grouping and dissolution and regrouping.
The trend of modern science is the trend of an ultimate reality, unity, and diversity of ego.
Modern science is the echoing of the Buddhists doctrines of transitoriness (annica ) and of egolessness (abstract). "
Mr. E. G. Taylor, in his " Buddhism and modern thought, "says: Man has been ruled by external authority long enough.
Mr. E. G. Taylor, in his " Buddhism and modern thought, "says: Man has been ruled by external authority long enough.
If he is to be truly civilized, he must learn to be ruled by his own principles.
Buddhism is the earliest ethical system where man is called upon to have himself governed by himself.
Therefore a progressive world needs Buddhism to teach it this supreme lesson.
The Reverend Leslie Bolton, Unitarian minister, says: I see in the spiritual psychology of Buddhism it's most powerful contribution.
The Reverend Leslie Bolton, Unitarian minister, says: I see in the spiritual psychology of Buddhism it's most powerful contribution.
Unitarian Christians like Buddhists reject the external authority of church books or creeds and find in man himself the guiding lamp.
Unitarian see in Jesus and Gautama noble exponents of the way of life.
Prof. Dwight Goddard says : Among the world's religious teachers, Buddha alone has the glory of having rightly judged the intrinsic greatness of man's capacity to work out his salvation without extraneous aid. "
If the wroth of a truly great man consists in his raising the worth of all mankind , who is better entitled to be called truly great than the Blessed One.
Prof. Dwight Goddard says : Among the world's religious teachers, Buddha alone has the glory of having rightly judged the intrinsic greatness of man's capacity to work out his salvation without extraneous aid. "
If the wroth of a truly great man consists in his raising the worth of all mankind , who is better entitled to be called truly great than the Blessed One.
Who instead of degrading him by placing another being over him, has exalted him to the highest pinnacle of wisdom and love. "
Mr. E. J. Mills, author of Buddhism says : In no other religion are the values of knowledge and evil of ignorance so much insisted upon as they are in Buddhism.
Mr. E. J. Mills, author of Buddhism says : In no other religion are the values of knowledge and evil of ignorance so much insisted upon as they are in Buddhism.
No other religion lays so much stress upon keeping one's eyes open.
No other religion has formulated such deep laid plans for mental culture.
Prof. W. T. Stace says in his Buddhist ethics : The Buddhist moral ideal, the Arhat, had to be both morally and intellectually great.
Prof. W. T. Stace says in his Buddhist ethics : The Buddhist moral ideal, the Arhat, had to be both morally and intellectually great.
He had to be a philosopher, as well as a man of good conduct.
Life Of The Buddhas
Knowledge was always stressed by Buddhism as essential to salvation, and ignorance as one of the two main causes of failure to attain it ( craving or attachment being the other).
On the contrary, knowledge had never been any part of the Christian ideal man.
Owing to the unphilosophical character of its founder in the Christian Scheme of the thought the moral side of man has been divorced from the intellectual side.
Far more of the world's misery is caused by stupidity and blind faith than by wickedness.
Far more of the world's misery is caused by stupidity and blind faith than by wickedness.
The Buddha didn't allow this. " Enough unto this to show how great and how unique is the Buddha and his Dhamma.
Who would not say let such a one be our Master?
To maintain Purity of life is Dhamma. To live in Nibbana is Dhamma. To Give up Craving is Dhamma.
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Buddhas Teaching
WHAT IS DHAMMA
To maintain Purity of life is Dhamma. To live in Nibbana is Dhamma. To Give up Craving is Dhamma.
To Reach Perfection in Life is Dhamma. To believe that all compound things are impermanent is Dhamma.
To believe that Karma is the instrument of Moral order is Dhamma.
Belief in the Supernatural is not - Dhamma . Belief in God is not Essentially part of Dhamma. Belief in soul is not - Dhamma.
WHAT IS NOT - DHAMMA :
Belief in the Supernatural is not - Dhamma . Belief in God is not Essentially part of Dhamma. Belief in soul is not - Dhamma.
Belief in sacrifices is not - Dhamma. Belief based on speculation is not - Dhamma.
Reading books of Dhamma is not - Dhamma. Dhamma based on union with Brahma is a False Dhamma.
Belief in the infallibility of books of Dhamma is not - Dhamma.
Buddhas Enlightenment
WHAT IS SADDHAMMA:
To cleanse the mind of its impurities. To make the world a kingdom of Righteousness.
Dhamma to be Saddhamma must promote Pradnya. Dhamma is Saddhamma when it makes learning open to all.
Dhamma is Saddhamma when it teaches that mere learning is not enough.
It may lead to pedantry. Dhamma is Saddhamma when it teaches that what is needed is Pradnya.
Dhamma to be Saddhamma must promote Maitri. Dhamma is Saddhamma only when it teaches that mere Pradnya is not enough.
It must be accompanied by Sila. Dhamma is Saddhamma only when it teaches that besides Pradnya and Sila what is necessary is Karuna.
Dhamma is Saddhamma only when it teaches that more than Karuna what is necessary is Maitri. Dhamma to be Saddhamma must pull down all social barriers.
Dhamma to be Saddhamma must break down barriers between man and man. Dhamma to be Saddhamma must teach that worth and not birth is the measure of man.
Conclusion -
Dhamma to be Saddhamma must promote equality between man and man.
That's why Teacher and the art of his life must be inspirational, motivational, educational, social excellent and Religious. The art of living teaches Buddha in Buddhism .
