Wednesday, August 17, 2022

El Origen del universo y los humanos en la cosmología budista



En lugar de un dios creador, el karma colectivo de una multitud de seres es la causa primaria y el primer impulso para la aparición de un nuevo universo. Este karma contiene toda la potencialidad de ese universo específico, incluidas sus leyes generales de la física. Por lo tanto, una vez que un universo llega a existir por causas kármicas colectivas, le seguirán todas las leyes de la física. Estos factores serán los responsables, por ejemplo, de lo que realmente sucede con los planetas, el cambio de estaciones, etc. Es muy importante entender que si el karma colectivo es la causa principal de la formación/aparición de un nuevo universo, no todas las cosas que suceden a continuación en ese universo se deben al karma. Por ejemplo, cuando una hoja cae de un árbol, o cuando una roca cae de una montaña, no es el karma de la hoja o la roca que cae, sino la simple ley de la gravitación. Si caminamos en una montaña cuando cae una roca y nos golpean en la cabeza, entonces eso es karma, pero no importa si estamos allí o no, las rocas y las hojas caerán, y los planetas girarán alrededor del sol, etc. Así, una vez que aparece un universo, no todo lo que sucede en él puede llamarse karma. Sin embargo, repito, el impulso y la causa primordial que trajo a la existencia un universo específico es el karma colectivo de los seres que tienen las causas para renacer en tales condiciones físicas.

Sunday, August 7, 2022

On people who cannot be saved by Amida Buddha


“Indeed it matters not how vile we be whether in body or in mind. Whoever we are, we ought to put our trust in Amida’s Vow, and bend our whole mind to the one way, and so we shall assuredly be born into the Pure Land. Nevertheless, we must remember that many men have many minds. There are some who look only for the pleasure and glory of this present evanescent world, which is but a vision or a dream, and know nothing at all about that afterworld. There are others again who have come to dread the future, and accordingly bend their energies in that direction. Thus their minds flit from this to that religious practice, and they do not trust exclusively in the one and only way. Again there are some who, when they have once made up their minds in a certain way, will not change them, but persist therein in spite of everything they may hear. Then there are others who today have a most excellent faith, and it would seem as if they could never deviate therefrom a hair’s breadth, and yet they afterwards give it up entirely. Such being the case it is very hard to find anyone who has really entered the gate of Jodo (Pure Land), and is devoting himself heart and soul to the practice of the Nembutsu alone. I seem to myself to be the only one who secretly grieves over such a regrettable state of things, and indeed it is hard to find anyone in this world, who gives heed to the Dharma itself, irrespective of the character of the man who expounds it.”[1]
 
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Monday, August 1, 2022

Self-power practices and teachings are not appropriate for our times

 
"Regardless of whether it is of Mahayana Buddhism or Hinayana Buddhism, we cannot endure the training in these sacred teachings of the four vehicles, as they are not appropriate teachings for our present time……It is unnecessary to state here that in this period of the decline of Dharma (the Last Dharma Age), pursuit of these achievements is almost impossible, especially for those of us with minimal capabilities…..It goes without saying that in the present day, while it is still the period of the decline of the Dharma (the Last Dharma Age), let alone during the periods of the true Dharma (the Right Dharma Age) and the semblance of the Dharma (the Semblance Dharma Age), no being is excluded from birth in the Pure Land.”[1]
 
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When does our salvation takes place? In this life or after death? (video discussion)

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