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Who am I?Part 2 : How to lead a meaningful life?
Bugs TanPersatuan Buddha Hilir Perak
Teluk Intan 11th Oct 2015
Where to begin?
Go forward and see got longkang or not?
Back track…
Ask GOD..!!!
Ask your mother Ask MCA - Liow Ask Dr M
Wear lucky charm
Change car plate number
Ups and Down in Life
Information Over Load
There are so many things in life. So which is correct?
Information Over Load
What happen when you are fed with too much information?
What to do?
Back to basic
It starts with YOU
The Blessed One was once living at Kosambi in a wood of Simpasa trees. He picked-up a few leaves in his hands, and he asked the bhikkhus, "How do you conceive this, bhikkhus, which is more, a few leaves that I've picked-up in my hand or those on the trees in the wood?
"The leaves that the Blessed One picked-up in his hand are a few, Lord : those in the wood are far more."
The Buddhist Path
"So too, bhikkhus, the things that I've known direct knowledge are more ; the things that I've told you are only a few.
Why have I not told them? Because they bring no benefit, no advancement in the Holy Life, and because they do not lead to dispassion, to fading, to ceasing, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibanna. That is why I've not told them.
And what I've told you? This is suffering ; this is the origin of suffering ; this is the cessation of suffering ; this is the way leading to the cessation of suffering. That is what I have told you.
Why have I told it? Because it brings benefit, and advancement in the Holy Life, and because it leads to dispassion, to fading, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibanna.
So bhikkhus, let your task be this, this is the cessation of suffering, this is the way leading to the cessation of suffering."
Skilful way to learn the Dhamma
The Buddha Dhamma
Tipitaka – The Pali Canon
Sutta
Vinnaya
Ahbidhamma
Four Noble Truth
Noble 8 Fold Path
Five Precepts
Pariyati. Learning the Dhamma.
Patipatti. Practicing the Dhamma
Pativedha. Realising the Dhamma
Let’s do some case study.
Let’s have a lively discussion on the next few videos.
Tell us what do you think in each video.
What are your views
Was that right? Or was it wrong?
#1 : Woman dying of breast cancer
Question to ask:-
1) What do you think is the woman’s problem?
2) What is the right thing for her to do?
3) Was Master Lu giving the right advise?
4) If not. Then why not? Then what sort of advise Master Lu should give?
#2 : Angry Teacher
#3 : Low Yat brawl
#4 : Order a pizza
#5 : Kangkung song
#6 : I’m first a Malaysian
#7 : Liar strike by lightning
#8 : Taoist Priest
#9 : Corrupted Monks in Korea
#10 : Bahai
#11 : Black magic
#12 : Monk in boiling oil
#13 : Buddhist Monk Wirathu
#14 : Exorcism
#15 : Sikhism
#16 : Taliban
#17 : Children suicide bombers
#18 : Aghori
#19 : Sai Baba
#20 : Islamophobia
#21 : Hantu
#22 : Raja Bomoh MH370
#23 : We can fix it
#24 : George Carlin
#25 : Amos Yee
#26 : Jack Ma
#27 : The CEO of Pespi Cola
#28 : Quantum leap
Buddhist are Happy People
Avoid wrongdoing,
Do good and
Purify the mind,
This is the teaching of Buddhas.
~ Dhammapada 183
The 10 evil deeds (akusala) we should avoid.
They are :-
1. Killing
2. Stealing
3. Sexual misconduct
4. Lying
5. Slandering
6. Harsh speech
7. Vain talk
8. Covetousness (desire for wealth)
9 Ill-will
10. False belief
10 evil deeds
We should have wholesome thoughts (kusala) all the time. The
Buddha has mentioned that there are 10 good qualities. They are:-
1. Generosity
2. Morality
3. Meditation
4. Reverence
5. Service
6. Transference of merit
7. Rejoicing in others’ merit
8. Hearing the doctrine
9. Expounding the doctrine
10. Straightening one’s right view
10 meritorious deeds
The Buddha teaches that a bhikkhu practising the holy life must exercise control of his sense faculties.
The six sense faculties may be likened to six animals, namely, a snake, a crocodile, a giant bird, a dog, a jackal and a monkey. Suppose each animal is bound by a rope and the ropes are tied together into a single knot.
When they are left in this state, each animal will try to get to its own habitat, the snake to its underground hole, the crocodile to the river, etc.
In this way they will pull and struggle against one another until they become exhausted and are dragged along by the strongest of them.
The mind of a bhikkhu with unrestrained sense faculties will be impelled by the senses towards corresponding sense objects.
Question : Why we do we get bogged down by something we like very much.
Skilful means - Mindfulness
But suppose each animal is bound by a separate rope which is fastened to a pole firmly planted in the ground.
Each animal will make furious attempts to return to its home and becoming exhausted finally will stand, sit, curl or lie down quietly near the post.
Similarly by practising contemplation of the body, the sense faculties are placed well under control.
Mindfulness of the body serves as the firm post to which each of the faculties is tied down.
Salayatana-vibhanga Sutta
The discourse given by the Buddha on the bank of the River Ganges at Kosambi, the Buddha uses the simile of a log floating down the river.
He says that if the log does not get stranded on either of the two banks,
nor sinks in the middle of the river,
nor gets salvaged and deposited on the bank by some one,
nor is retrieved by men or devas,
nor sucked in by a whirlpool,
and if it does not get decomposed on the way,
it will be carried by the current till it reaches its destination.
Salayatana-vibhanga Sutta
In this simile,
; the near bank means the six internal sense bases; the far bank represents the six external sense objects; sinking in the mid-river means getting immersed in sensuous desires; being salvaged and deposited on a bank means being hindered by one’s own conceit; being retrieved by men means doing some services or running errands for men; being retrieved by devas means practising the holy life with the deva realm as one’s objective; being sucked in a whirlpool means wallowing in sensual pleasures; getting decomposed on the way means becoming corrupt, immoral, heedless of the disciplinary rules.
If a bhikkhu manages to steer himself clear of all these obstacles, he will be carried along by the current of Right View till he reaches his destination, Nibbana.
Salayatana-vibhanga Sutta
It's all about letting go...
love
family
body
jobs Emptiness
Nirvana
Property
success
Take home message….
I realized that that while we are fortunate to be born with the 5 Khandha that has make it possible us to function as a human being. But in my thoughts, I’ve also taken that the 5 Khandha are actually our enemy in disguise.
