May
17

Kesi sutta – Aïguttara Nikàya, Chatukka Nipata, Kesivaggo

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Kesihow do you train horses? Venerable sir, I train horses kindly, roughly, and I train horses kindly and roughly. 

Kesi, when the horse to be tamed is not tamed when trained kindly, roughly and also kindly and roughly, what do you do to it?   Venerable sir, when the horse to be tamed is not tamed when trained kindly, roughly and also kindly and roughly, I kill it. What is the reason? May there be no blame for the clan of the master.

Venerable sir, The Blessed One is the incomparable tamer of those to be tamed. How does The Blessed One tame those to be tamed? Kesi, I train those to be tamed kindly, roughly and train them kindly and roughly.

Venerable sir, when those to be tamed are not tamed when trained kindly, roughly and also kindly and roughly, what does The Blessed One do to them? Kesi,  I kill them.

Venerable sir, it is not suitable for The Blessed One to destroy living things, yet The Blessed One says I kill them. Kesi, it’s true, destroying living things is not suitable for the Thus Gone One, if those to be tamed do not tame, when trained kindly, harshly and also kindly and harshly, the Thus Gone One does not think they should be tolerated and advised and wise co-associates in the holy life do not think they should be tolerated and advised. Kesi, it is death in the noble ones’ discipline when the Thus Gone and the wise co-associates in the holy life do not think to tolerate and advise.

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May
15

Nibbana – The Mind Stilled (Vol.02) – Ven Katukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero

compress_CaptureThe Buddha has declared that the mind is more picturesque than that carana picture. As an adaptation of that carana picture for the modern day, we referred to the movie film and the drama in connection with our discussion of san-kharas in particular and paticca samuppada in general. Today, let us try to move a little forward in the same direction.

In the latter part of the same Second Gaddulasutta of the Samyutta Nikaya, Khandhasasamyutta, the Buddha gives a simile of a painter. Translated it would read as follows: “Just as a dyer or a painter would fashion the likeness of a woman or of a man, complete in all its major and minor parts, on a well planed board, or a wall, or on a strip of cloth, with dye or lac or turmeric or indigo or madder, even so the untaught worldling creates, as it were, his own form, feelings, perceptions, preparations, and consciousness.

” What the Buddha wants to convey to us by this comparison of the five grasping groups to an artefact done by a painter, is the insubstantiality and the vanity of those five groups. It brings out…………

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May
11

Kesi Sutta – Anguttara Nikaya,Chatukka Nipatha, Kesivaggo

compress_Kesiකෙසි සූත්‍රය- අඞ්‌ගුත්‌තරනිකාය02 , චතුක්‌කනිපාත, කෙසිවග්‌ගො (පිටු අංක 218 සිට 221)

කෙසිය ඉදින් තොප විසින් දමනය කළ යුතු අශ්වයා මෘදු  කමින් හික්මීමට නොපැමිණේද, ඵරුෂකමින්ද හික්මීමට නොපැමිණේද, මෘදු ඵරුෂකමින් හික්මීමට නොපැමිණේද, ඔහුට කුමක් කරන්නෙහි ද?   ස්වාමීනි, ඔහු නසමි.

ස්වාමීනි. නුඹ වහන්සේ ගේ දමනය කළ යුතු පුරුෂයා මෘදු කමින් හික්මීමට නොයාද, භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ ඔහුට කුමක් කරන්නේ ද

කෙසිය, ඉදින් මගේ දමනය කළ යුතු පුරුෂයා මෘදු කමින් හික්මීමට නොයයිද, ඵරුෂකමින් හික්මීමට නොයයිද, මෘදුකමින් හා ඵරුෂකමින් හික්මීමට නොයයිද, කෙසිය, ඔහු නසමි. ස්වාමීනි, භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේට සතුන් මැරීම නොකැප නොවේ ද? භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ මෙතන නසමි යන්න අදහස් කොට වදාළ ධම්ම කරුණු අවබෝධ කර ගැනීමට සූත්‍රයේ ඉතිරි කොටසට මෙම පිවිසුමෙන් ඇතුල් වන්න.

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බුද්ධජයන්ති ත්‍රිපිටක ග්‍රන්ථමාලාවෙන් පිටපත් කර ගන්නා ලදී.

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May
10

How to Teach Buddhism to Children – Dr. Helmuth Klar

compress_thumbnail.aspHow can Buddhist parents best teach their own children Buddhism? Since they will seldom have the opportunity to teach it to other children, let alone the children of non-Buddhist parents. As I do not wish to theories, I shall speak only from practical experience with my own children, and so of Western children in general.

We live in entirely different conditions and so cannot take such an important problem as Buddhist education too lightly. Our Great Teacher, the Buddha himself, has taught us to see for ourselves, to examine and draw our own conclusions, and not to believe blindly in others. Just as everyone must work out his own salvation so must we evolve a Buddhist educational system suitable for Western conditions. Naturally any advice or suggestions which other countries can give will be thankfully accepted. We hope to receive many such proposals and to hear of other people’s experiences.

Children always enjoy festivals, and since non-Buddhist children have so many, Buddhist children may be allowed their Uposatha-day once or twice every month. This day should be made quite different from an ordinary day, different even from an ordinary Sunday. As it is not always possible in Western countries to keep the new or full-moon day itself, parents may choose the Sunday nearest to it and make that day a festival. Workaday life must stop on this Uposatha-day, and everyone should be intent on observing the silas. Parents should teach their children the Dhamma or influence them in that way. Now how can this best be done?

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