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BrainStuff
"siddhartha gautama" Discussed on BrainStuff
"In Chinese American restaurants. The laughing, Buddha. Hey brain stuff, Lauren bogle bomb here. You've probably seen him seated next to the cash register at your local Chinese American restaurant. A shiny bronze statue of a bald pot bellied man with a laughing grin on his face. The same jolly fella immortalized in key chains and other trinkets sold in Chinatown tourist shops all across the U.S.. That's not the Buddha. But it's in the right religious ballpark. He's called the laughing Buddha, and the story behind him is complicated. We spoke with Denise leidy, currently the curator of Asian art at the Yale University Art Gallery. She held the same position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 22 years, and is no stranger to westerners confusion over the laughing Buddha statue. She said, in Christianity, there's this one guy, so when people see this fun guy, they think that's the Buddha. But it's not. The Buddha in the singular is to start the Goldman. But the Buddhist religion over time has added multiple layers of deities. Many of whom have multiple avatars. And so it's gotten mind bogglingly complicated. Buddha, the story goes, was a man named sadaka Goldman, who lived around the 6th century BCE in India. Born a wealthy prince he chose to live an ascetic lifestyle in search of the meaning of existence, which he found while meditating for 40 days under a fig tree. After achieving Nirvana, which is the escape from the endless cycle of suffering death and rebirth, he became the Buddha, or the awakened one. Over the centuries, his teachings spread throughout India into China across Asia and eventually around the world. Today, there are an estimated 376 million followers of Buddhism worldwide. But so who is the laughing Buddha? Buddhism has expanded over the millennia to include a Pantheon of deities in addition to goat ma Buddha. Those include numerous bodhisattva, the term four sage like individuals who work for the enlightenment of all sentient beings. Buddhism, practiced mainly in Southeast Asia, got is only the most recent of 28 buddhas described in holy texts, and then there are avatars, humans believed to be incarnations of deities. The laughing Buddha was one such avatar, a tenth century Chinese monk named budai. According to accounts written centuries later, budai was a gregarious pot bellied monk who wandered from village to village, carrying a large sack over his shoulder, but I, meaning cloth sack. He was beloved by children and the poor to whom he would give rice and sweets from his sack. On his deathbed, budai penned a poem in which he revealed himself as the avatar of maitreya, a deity also known as the future Buddha. Lydie explains, in our lifetime, this great cosmic era you and I are sharing, there's a teaching Buddha named Siddhartha Gautama. The world will ultimately destroy itself. I don't know when, but when the world is reborn, metra will come back as the teaching Buddha of that era. Over time, but I became the subject of popular devotion in zen Buddhism, both in China and Japan. His large belly and sack are believed to represent abundance, and he's included among these 7 lucky gods of Japan as a harbinger of abundance and good health. At some point, he also became the patron deity of restaurants and bartenders, hence his prized location next to the cash register. Lydie isn't sure of the exact historical Providence of today's laughing Buddha statues, but she believes the bodi imagery in Chinese art and sculpture started popping up in the 15th century. She said, as global trade begins to expand in the late 16th and 17th century and porcelain is totally transforming global ceramics, there's probably some imagery of this guy that snuck in. It got picked up in the west, turned into the laughing Buddha, and made into this kitschy thing that you can buy anywhere. Although rubbing the belly for good luck is not Buddhist teaching and generally considered impolite, devotees of Buddhism don't seem to have a problem with the spread of the icon. Barbara O'Brien, a journalist and zen Buddhism student, wrote, it is indicative of Buddhism's broad tolerance of diversity that this laughing Buddha of folklore is accepted into the official practice. For Buddhists, inequality that represents Buddha nature is to be encouraged, and the folklore of the kind laughing Buddha is not regarded as any kind of sacrilege, even though people may unwittingly confuse him with got my Buddha. Today's episode is based on the article, that fat jolly fella isn't Buddha on how stuff works dot com, written by Dave Bruce. Brainstorm is production by heart radio, in partnership with house to forks dot com, and is produced by Tyler clang. For more podcasts, my heart radio visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. 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The Aloönæ Show
"siddhartha gautama" Discussed on The Aloönæ Show
"Scale is a road map. For some area of human activity, it enables you to find out precisely where you are, where you are going and how to get there, given some specific context. There are very few human behavioral to which at least one of these scales does not apply. Okay, okay. Now, how does someone use septa to help others like family, Friends, business associates, et cetera? Okay. If you study these scares carefully, and use them to resolve your confusions and eliminate dilemmas, your life will improve. The more carefully you study the skills and the more diligently and frequently you apply them to more benefit you will receive. Whenever a situational question arises in your life, turn to the appropriate chapter and analyze the situation against the relevant scale. Specifically, I would advise you to go through each relevant scale and find your level, either generally, regard some specific context. By an honest inspection of behavior and situation. Once you are sure your at a particular level, try to get the idea of being at the next level up. Ask yourself, how would that manifest? Then work out a plan for how you would move to the next level. If you aren't correct about what level you were in, it would not be very difficult in most cases to find out what to do next. However, arduous oled the task might be. If you can not work out how to get up to the next level, generally, is because either you're actually at a different level than you think. Or you have not fully comprehended the text. If you do these steps thoroughly for 8 scale, you will undergo a metamorphosis. Now, in certain scales, it might not be possible for you to go up a level in the near future. But merely knowing what level you are at will help considerably. For example, the first scale to scale of basic purposes. That is a long term phenomenon. Every human being has base purposes. And most people go through their entire lives at one level of that scale. So it's not that easy to move yourself on that particular scale. It can be done but let's say somebody has some big life-changing experience to meditation through therapy through facilitation, all right, for example, the Bible talks about Saul, who's on the road to Damascus, and had some miraculous experience. And he became a Christian instantly. That was an example of him moving from level two up to level one on that scale. That's quite rare. So in this particular scale the scale based purposes knowing where you are, and knowing where other people are, is absolutely invaluable. For example, Hitler is at level 7 on the scale of basic purposes. His scale was to destroy. If the people of Germany had this book, they never would have voted for him in 1933. Wow. That's just blew my mind. And I can give you hundreds of other examples. Stalin is at level 6 criminal. His goal was pleasure. He was just like, Al Capone. Or Carl again, being over any other criminal. He was literally a bank robber, you know that. And so, you know, he behaved like a criminal. Anybody got in his way. He just killed him. He virtually exterminated the entire officer level of the Russian army, so that when World War II broke out, they had nobody to lead their army. That's why they took such terrible losses. They lost 20 million people because he killed off all of their officers. Anybody that bothered him, he just killed him. Just like the mafia does. So if people had this book, you know, they never would have allowed that. They would have done what the Romans did. You know, Nero was a Roman Emperor, okay? He was crazy. The pretorian guard killed him. Because they could see he was crazy. And they got another emperor there, who wasn't going to do. Terrible stupid things. Okay, okay. Can you describe to me each one of the scales and what descriptions they have? Well, I have two answers to that. One is, I would be very happy to do that. But there are 35 scales. And each one is quite complex. And there's no way we could do that in the limited time that we have. But we would need a very long format. And my understanding is this is only 30 minutes. And we only have 6 minutes left. However, the other answer is, I have a slide show. If you like, I will put it on the screen right now and show you some of the scales and you can ask questions about them. Would you like that? Yeah, sure. But in fact, in fact, if you are free on any next Thursday, I can bring you on the team sketch podcast where we will do a Zoom meeting and you can actually show the rest of the gang, your slideshow. Okay. Now, this slide shows shows all 35 skills. But I have to tell you that this is a textbook. Is a subject like geometry. Calculus, physics, chemistry, economics. It's very technical. It's very specific. And I know that because I spent 25 years guaranteeing that the skills were correct. So what I'm saying is it would be an enormous challenge to try to even in an hour to try to explain 5 scales. Now, even if I have the textbook up, people can see it and lightbulbs will go on over their heads just in seeing the scale. For example, if you see the scale of basic purposes, the top level is saint and that includes people like Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, yogananda, but a Siddhartha Gautama. And.
Tara Brach
"siddhartha gautama" Discussed on Tara Brach
"Welcome friends no mistake. I have a friend. He has to teens in high school and he recently commented to me that he has these compartments of normalcy. Might be times is immersed in work or watching a netflix series with his partner and then he gets jogged back into realizing. He's living in a totally shaky off balanced world and it just makes me think house for so many of us we've been waiting to get back onto terra firma a solid ground but then the upheaval just keeps on happening. You know the the pandemic continues the realization of what is happening with climate. Change just goes deeper into our bodies. There's these natural disasters and then the anti democratic forces and it just keeps going and with that there's this pervasive fear an zayed's a sense of loss and there's many different responses for some. It's anxiety a sense of being down and that's what's so pervasive and of course we're caught in that it just doesn't bring out our best behaviors. As we know unprocessed fear unprocessed loss. It creates a sense of separation that we act out There was a story of a woman's husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months and she stayed at his bedside every single day and one day he came to and motion for her to come closer. New whispered tours is or full of tears. You know what. You've been with me through all the bad times. When i got fired you were there to support me when my business failed. You were there when i had that terrible car wreck you were with me when we lost the house you stay right here when my health started failing. You're still by my side. You know what what dear. She asked gently smiling he says. I think you're bad luck. So it's not our habit to face. Fear loss directly. I we we you blame others or blame ourselves. We'll get back to that. But i'd like to save for now is through all of human history. There's been trauma. There's been wars and natural disasters and plagues and so on and many of us have experienced personal trauma whether it's abuse or major illness or deep emotional wounding sudden loss. Huge number have generational trauma such as the trauma. That comes from racial violence and oppression. But we've never been in a collective trauma where the entire life system of our larger body. This earth is severely threatened. And here's the thing about our traumatize world while individually we might have more or less of a buffer you know it's dependent on class and race and health and many factors fierce contagious and the fear levels been ratcheted up around the glow keeps on increasing and our nervous systems register. It and what that means is that as there's increasing fear in society hand in hand with unprocessed fear. There comes violence. there comes addiction. There comes fundamentalism. There comes a tendency towards rage towards creating bad other towards that dividedness got another email the last week or so somebody wrote to me and said that they keep being surprised that they can even feel shocked again that thinks he gets so bad so name all this because i imagined that many of you listening they're here with me can census that the illusion of life as usual. You know that sense of ongoing this of some level of certainty that whatever we took for granted about our society is there. It's it's been broken this experience that so many of us earn countering which is really a shift this real groundless nece it's parallel to a pivotal moment in the life story of the buddha where siddhartha gautama. That's the buddha to be. He lived his first decades child as a young man in the very secure and stable Domain of his family's palace the palaces in the ground so he he had a lot of security and then at one point he took some excursions outside the grounds and that's when he encountered person who was old men a person who was sick and then a corpse dead person and his illusion was destroyed because he realized okay. This is going to happen to me too. And to all of us and that gave rise to the deep inquiry of the buddhist life which is also i feel like our inquiry which is given the disillusion of all we hold here given the groundless of the slight what is the pathway to peace to inner freedom to open hearted presence some in this uncertain world what matters and how we live each day and i'm aware that for many these aren't new questions you know. How do we really find inner freedom. How do we live with an open heart. But what's new is that. They have a real urgency and immediacy right now. Because if we don't dedicate purposefully deepen our attention. Life is easily hijacked by fear and ever more easily in these days and sometimes it's not so evident. It comes more as a sense of being kind of chronically off balance or just worried allied or difficulty really arriving in presence with others kind of short tempered maybe a sense of personal falling short but for many especially those living with some past trauma very triggering. Top's real sense of i'm being cut off of isolation kind of more gripping fear the shaman. Teach that when there's great fear energetic parts of shutdown relief they just get cut off from them and that disconnect.
Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"siddhartha gautama" Discussed on Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"So, over the last several weeks we were looking at what in Buddhist psychology is called the three marks of existence. And the last month when I brought up that, it was related to what I'm Buddhist Buddhist psychology is called the four noble truths. And I appreciated that I got a lot of feedback from people in both the morning and the evening program or groups that the people wanted more. I wanted to hear this. So we are going to begin to explore the four noble truths. And I'm just going to say that this, you know, the way I relate to the Buddhist tradition really is as a psychology, a science of the mind that has been profoundly useful for my life, these teachings. Clearly for some people are deep Glean religious. They are all sorts of things for all sorts of different people. But this is, this is the way I relate to the teachings wage. And in that context for me, they've been really, really helpful. So, the four noble truths were the first by tradition first teaching of the Buddha Lounge. And because of that, I thought, that we would actually start with the story of the Buddha today, instead of moving into the four noble truths, just to put the contact the teachings into the context of someone who is a real person from more than 2,500 years ago, who lived his life with this box, question of what relieve suffering what causes suffering, and what relieve suffering. I love old wisdom stories and the fact that this one has been passed down for more than 2,500 years. That to me, is reason for a level of of all kind of remarkable. It's easy to find, lots of versions of the story and some of them have very Fantastical elements myth elements in them. But the bare bones of the story are really useful for framing, the Buddhist understanding of what causes suffering, and what relieve suffering and really in this. In this in this very beautiful context of a real person who framed his life and and in a journey of this question wrong. So, the story of siddharta, his name was siddharta of his past, two away, it's really a striving of understanding. How a striving to understand that are suffering itself is the package to relieving are suffering understanding it. So the first thing I want to say is that he really he was a real person. I don't think there's there's really any any question of that. There was a historical person by by the name of Siddhartha Gautama. He was by tradition born into a small Kingdom in Northern India or Southern Nepal right in that that border region. And the way I think of him is as the world's first psychologist and likely, if you look in other Traditions, all around the world, there were probably plenty of other psychologists of the mind as well. But his, his story has has been passed down and is still being shared. And one of the things that fascinates me is when you should really go to the essence of his teachings, there's remarkable similarity and overlap between what he was able to figure out about how our minds work by simply turning Inward and what Neuroscience has has figured out by by doing MRIs and all of that. So, there, there was this remarkable, clear study of the mind that he that he did and Frames his life from around. The first time his his teachings in the stories, the stories have been written down, was about five hundred years after he died. So I, you know, by 500 years later, they're, they're lots of variations, but there is a bare-bones story that is across all Traditions home and shared with these basic basic elements to the story. So the story is that he was born a prince to this this king and the small Kingdom and The King invited a wise, man to come at the birth of Siddhartha and make a prediction about his life. The wise man, predicted that off with either..