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Buddha is quoted as saying: “there is no first beginning, no first beginning is knowable.” Samyutta Nikaya 15.1-2 There is an idea of the Adi-Buddha. Whether Gautama is the Adi-Buddha has been debated, but according to the Lotus Sutra Siddhartha was not the first Buddha, He was a Bodhisattva named ...

Become a Buddha and figure out if you are Omnipotent.

To me "reaching the path" means coming to a place in one's life when their entire life is dedicated to the Buddha Way. There are some meanings in the Lotus Sutra about how some very small and also large tokens of forbearance towards honouring the Buddha will help one enter the Buddha Way, towards be...

You could ask for Avalokakitesvara's protection, the protection of Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World's Sounds. Here is an excerpt about Him from the Lotus Sutra's text: "Suppose there were a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a million living beings who, seeking for gold, silver, lapis lazuli, seas...

Actually, you do not know if your severe punishment has yet to come. You say, "It would have harmed me by now," but you do not know that. Your harm could be still on its way and not arrived yet. I have been on lotus sutra for last 26 years, day in , day out. And I have suffered a lot during this pe...

Punishment comes only to those who blaspheme the Lotus Sutra, and the blasphemy has to be serious for the Mystic Law to consider it as such. In the Lotus Sutra there is some information about what comes to those who blaspheme it. Misunderstanding it, however, is not blasphemy, and it is part of the ...

Some people just haven't accepted or wanted to think about the reason for leaving Samsara. They may very well have the Buddha Wisdom of knowing that they need to go into a Spiritual Lifestyle, but don't accept the valid points of it as a part of their every day lives, because it means waking up from...

Does anyone know if this has to do with the tradition of Vishnu (also called Narayan, also a Deity recognized in Buddhism) laying on a bed of Naga Serpents on the Causal Ocean in meditation? I know that followers of Sanatana Dharma see Buddha as an Avatar of Vishnu, so is there some connection betwe...

I believe what the Buddha classified as desire or craving comes from the pull of a living entity to become a controller of the Saha world in order to acquire something for him/her/itself that feeds the senses, this may be called material sense gratification, and once someone experiences this they ar...

AI that is created by humanity as computerized technology with the intent of becoming some sort of model for an android to become a part of human society is my greatest hope for what can be done with regards to this kind of system, but at the same time it is the most difficult situation as the robot...

May Avalokakitesvara guide and Protect you throughout life and your Journey in Buddhism!

Om Mani Padme Hum!

I think that there are many levels of consciousness at play during Empowerment and initiation, and though one may not fully grasp at what is going on, they may later realize they blossomed internally during the Empowerment and were fully present in a deeper subconscious way that affected their whole...

Does anyone have a take on the concept of being fully present as a Supremely Perfectly Enlightened Buddha, provisionally, yet having other levels of Awakening to get to, as a Buddha? What could these be? For example One could come to Supreme Perfect Enlightenment but desire to Only serve the Buddha ...

Caoimhghín, thank you for the East Asian Madhyamaka take on the Buddha and His Nirvana. There are a lot of deep questions as to whether the Enlightened One was ever even in this world in a material body, or whether He was an Emanation of Nirvana itself. When someone saw the Buddha, they may have ask...

In the Lankavatara sutra Buddha discusses the question in what sense he is same as the previous Buddhas, then he enumerates some of the previous ones like Krakucchanda etc... But he also points out that names of buddhas are empty. Is Buddha B, u, d, dh or a? This is also asked in the Lankavatara. W...

Thank you for your kind responses. To me the strength of the Adi-Buddha comes from the idea that there is an Eternal Buddha, and why I ask: "is it Gautama?" is because I want to perceive the secret of whether Gautama Buddha, the most revered Buddha in modern History, is the Adi-Buddha. I want to und...

I always feel like it's some kind of good energy coming from all the Buddha lands just to check out this little corner not DNS's world and ebb good and positive vibrations of Buddhism into us. I have almost 4,000 posts. How many more do I need to post for this to be part of my Dharma world too? :to...

I have like 545 guests online right now, sometimes it fills up the entire queue for me. There is quite a lot. I always feel like it's some kind of good energy coming from all the Buddha lands just to check out this little corner of DNS's world and ebb good and positive vibrations of Buddhism into us...

I expect that even the present population has caused damage to the life in the oceans that is difficult to repair. No necessary changes seem to be happening to prevent this damage to life and living beings. As per Lotus sutra our milkyway along with galaxis, stars and sun and earth are evolving a t...