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Monday, May 24, 2010

The idea of God or Creator in Buddhism

In this modern world we see that almost all the people believe in God, the one who created this earth and the universe. He is almighty, the creator of everything, omnipotent, omnipresent and so and so. I was wondering what Lord Buddha would have said about this idea.

Recently when I was going through the Brahma Net Discourse of Tipitaka (the holy book of Buddhists), I found that it had already been told there about 2600 years ago! In that Discourse the Buddha said,

"There are, monks, other matters, profound, hard to see, hard to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond mere thought, subtle, to be experienced by the wise, which the Tathágata, (the Buddha addresses Himself as Tathagata), having realized them by his own super-knowledge, proclaims, and about which those who would truthfully praise the Tathágata would rightly speak. And what are these matters?"

"There comes a time, monks, sooner or later after a long period, when this world contracts. At a time of contraction, beings are mostly reborn in the Abhassara Brahma world. And there they dwell, mind-made, feeding on delight, self-luminous, moving through the air, glorious - and they stay like that for a very long time."

"But the time comes, sooner or later after a long period, when this world begins to expand. In this expanding world an empty palace of Brahma appears. And then one being, from exhaustion of his life-span or of his merits, falls from the Abhassara world and arises in the empty Brahma-palace. And there he dwells, mind-made, feeding on delight, self-luminous, moving through the air, glorious - and he stays like that for a very long time."

"Then in this being who has been alone for so long there arises unrest, discontent and worry, and he thinks: ‘Oh, if only some other beings would come here!’ And other beings, from exhaustion of their life-span or of their merits, fall from the Abhassara world and arise in the Brahma palace as companions for this being. And there they dwell, mind-made, … and they stay like that for a very long time."

"And then, monks, that being who first arose there thinks: "I am Brahma, the Great Brahma, the Conqueror, the Unconquered, the All-Seeing, the All-Powerful, the Lord, the Maker and Creator, Ruler, Appointer and Orderer, Father of All That Have Been and Shall Be. These beings were created by me. How so? Because I first had this thought: ‘Oh, if only some other beings would come here!’ That was my wish, and then these beings came into this existence!" But those beings who arose subsequently think: "This, friends, is Brahma, Great Brahma, the Conqueror, the Unconquered, the All-Seeing, the All-Powerful, the Lord, the Maker and Creator, Ruler, Appointer and Orderer, Father of All That Have Been and Shall Be. How so? We have seen that he was here first, and that we arose after him."

"And this being that arose first is longer-lived, more beautiful and more powerful than they are. And it may happen that some being falls from that realm and arises in this world. Having arisen in this world, he goes forth from the household life into homelessness. Having gone forth, he by means of effort, exertion, application, earnestness and right attention attains to such a degree of mental concentration that he thereby recalls his last existence, but recalls none before that. And he thinks: ‘That Brahma, … he made us, and he is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change, the same for ever and ever. But we who were created by that Brahma, we are impermanent, unstable, short-lived, fated to fall away, and we have come to this world.’ This is the first case where-by some ascetics and Brahmins are partly Eternalists and partly Non-Eternalists."

This is how Jesus and Muhammed found their Revelation through meditation and thereby recalled their last existence and said that That God or Allah,.... He made us, He is permanent, omnipotent and so on. According to Buddhism, this is one of the 62 wrong views and it serves nothing in the path of deliverance and freedom.
You can read the discourse here:     http://buddhism.sansayan.com/tipitaka/sp/dn/dns1.php


5 comments:

  1. On chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism and Pakistan

    “If chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt be the greatest calamity for this country. No matter what the Hindus say, chitpavan brahmin RSSised hindutvaism is a menace to liberty, equality and fraternity. It is incompatible with democracy. chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva raj must be prevented at any cost.”

    “But it is right to ask if the Musalmans are the only sufferers from the evils that admittedly result from the undemocratic character of chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva society. Are not the millions of Shudras and non-chitpavan Brahmins, or millions of the Untouchables, suffering the worst consequences of the undemocratic character of chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva society?”

    “The Muslims are howling against the chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindu Maha Sabha and its slogan of Hindudom and chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva Raj. But who is responsible for this? chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindu Maha Sabha and chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva Raj are the inescapable nemesis which the Musalmans have brought upon themselves by having a Muslim League. It is action and counter-action. One gives rise to the other. Not partition, but the abolition of the Muslim League and the formation of a mixed party of chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva and Muslims is the only effective way of buryingthe ghost of chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva Raj.”

    “This attitude of keeping education, wealth and power as a close preserve for themselves and refusing to share it, which the high caste Hindus have developed in their relation with the lower classes of chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaites, is sought to be extended by them to the Muslims. They want to exclude the Muslims from place and power, as they have done to the lower class chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaites. This trait of the high caste chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaites is the key to the understanding of their politics.”


    “Strange as it may appear, Mr. Savarkar and Mr. Jinnah instead of being opposed to each other on the one nation versus two nations issue are in complete agreement about it. Both agree, not only agree but insist that there are two nations in India—one the Muslim nation and the other chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva nation.”

    “Nor should the formation of a mixed party of chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaites and Muslims be difficult in India. There are many lower orders in the chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva society, whose economic, political and social needs are the same as those of the majority of the Muslims and they would be far more ready to make a common cause with the Muslims for achieving common end than they would with the high caste of chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaites who have denied and deprived them of ordinary human right for centuries.”

    “If the Musalman will not yield on the issue of Pakistan, then Pakistan must come. So far as I am concerned, the only important question is: Are the Musalmans determined to have Pakistan? Or is Pakistan a mere cry? Is it only a passing mood? Or does it represent their permanent aspiration? On this there may be difference of opinion. Once it becomes certain that the Muslims want Pakistan there can be no doubt that the wise course would be to concede the principle of it.”

    On Buddhism and conversion

    “Though I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.” - Before converting to Buddhism “I will not believe in Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. Neither would I worship them.” - In 22 vows administered while converting to Buddhism “The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha
    has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have… Now what is the basis of Buddhism? If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.” - In his speech while converting to Bu

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  2. “In the chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindutvaite must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according to the Vedas. If the Vedas do not support the actions, instructions must be sought from the Smritis according to which the chitpavan brahmin will be the 1st rate Athma (soul), the Kashatria, Vysiya, Shudra are 2nd, 3rd, 4th rate souls and the Awakened Aboriginal Ati Shudras the SC/STs as having no soul at all so that all sorts of atrocities could be committed on them. But the Buddha never believed in any soul. He said all are equal, and if the Smritis fail to provide any such instructions, he must follow in the footsteps of the great men. He is not supposed to reason. Hence, so long as you are in the chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought.”

    “It must be borne in mind that although there are castes among Non-chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaites , as there are among chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva, caste has not the same social significance for Non-chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaite as it has for chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaite . Ask a Mohammedan or a Sikh who he is. He tells you that he is a Mohammedan or a Sikh, as the case may be. He does not tell you his caste, although he has one; and you are satisfied with his answer. When he tells you that he is a Muslim, you do not proceed to ask him whether he is a Shiya or a Suni; Sheikh or Saiyad; Khatik or Pinjari. When he tells you he is a Sikh, you do not ask him whether he is Jat or Roda, Mazbi or Ramdasi. But you are not satisfied, if a person tells you that he is a chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaite . You feel bound to inquire into his caste. Why? Because so essential is caste in the case of a chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaite, that without knowing it you do not feel sure what sort of a being he is.”

    A.
    (Even Today as majority of the people in top posts in Gvernment, PUC, Private sectors are brahmins they eat all sorts of mixed meat including beef along with alcohol.)

    “People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view,
    what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.”

    “That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.”

    “The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.”

    “In chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.”

    “Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man’s inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognised that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.”

    On democracy

    “In India, Bhakti or what may be called the path of devotion or hero-worship, plays a part in its politics unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any other country in the world. Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship.”

    “I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.”

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  3. “The world owes much to rebels who would dare to argue in the face of the pontiff and insist that he is not infallible. I do not care about the credit which every progressive society must give to its rebels. I shall be satisfied if I make the chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvites realise that they are the sick men of India, and that their sickness is causing danger to the health and happiness of other Indians.”

    “Each caste not only dines among itself and marries among itself, but each caste prescribes its own distinctive dress. What other explanation can there be of the innumerable styles of dress worn by the men and women of India, which so amuse the tourists? Indeed the ideal chitpavan brahmin RSSised chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva must be like a rat living in his own hole, refusing to have any contact with others. There is an utter lack among the Hindutvites of what the sociologists call “consciousness of kind.” There is no Hindutva consciousness of kind. In every Hindu the consciousness that exists is the consciousness of his caste. That is the reason why the chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaites cannot be said to form a society or a nation.”

    “Anyone who relies on an attempt to turn the members of
    the caste Hindus into better men by improving their personal character is in my judgment wasting his energy and bugging an illusion.”

    “The chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva criticise the Mohammedans for having spread their religion by the use of the sword. They also ridicule Christianity on the score of the Inquisition. But really speaking, who is better and more worthy of our respect–the Mohammedans and Christians who attempted to thrust down the throats of unwilling persons what they regarded as necessary for their salvation, or the chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva who would not spread the light, who would endeavour to keep others in darkness, who would not consent to share his intellectual and social inheritance with those who are ready and willing to make it a part of their own make-up? I have no hesitation in saying that if the Mohammedan has been cruel, the chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva has been mean; and meanness is worse than cruelty.”

    “To put the matter in general terms, chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism and social union are incompatible. By its very genius chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism believes in social separation, which is another name for social disunity and even creates social separation. If Hindus wish to be one, they will have to discard chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism. They cannot be one without violating chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism. Chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism is the greatest obstacle to chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva Unity. chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism cannot create that longing to belong which is the basis of all social unity. On the contrary chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutvaism creates an eagerness to separate.”




    Bloomberg via Getty Images


    Images of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar known as Babasaheb, India’s first minister of law and justice and a social reformer who inspired the Awakened Aboriginal Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribs Buddhist Movement, top left, and gods and godesses are displayed outside a house in in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. Murderer of democratic institutions & Master of diluting institutions (Modi)’s chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva Bevakoof Jhoothe Psychopathys (BJP) is seeking to woo SC/STs in order to win the state’s legislative elections, which would give him greater momentum to push his economic agenda at the national level. While the BJP dominated Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 national elections, Modi faces a tough fight for All Awakened Aboriginal Societies votes against several caste-based parties — in a state where caste is the most important factor for voters. But in reality he tampers the fraud EVMs to win elections.

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  4. https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/04/14/30-ambedkar-quotes-that-may-surprise-the-bjp_a_22039425/


    Ambedkar Quotes That Must and Should Surprise The BJP (Bevakoof Jhoothe Psychopaths)
    “Hindutva raj must be prevented at any cost,” wrote Ambedkar.

    The Bevakoof Jhoothe Psychopaths (BJP) and the Murderer of democratic institution (Modi) celebrate Marvellous Modern Constitutional hero Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s birthday. It is surprising that they are doing so, because the BJP’s Stealth, shadowy, discriminatory hindutva cult agenda is at odds with what Ambedkar wrote on Hinduism, Hindu nationalism, even beef-eating.

    Here are 30 Ambedkar quotes that may actually surprise the BJP.

    “The first and foremost thing that must be recognised is that chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva Society is a myth. The name Hindutva is itself a foreign name. (The just 0.1% intolerant,cunning, crooked, number one terrorists of the world, violent, militant, ever shooting, lynching, lunatic, mentally retarded rapist Foreigners from Bene Israel chitpavan brahmin RSS (Rowdy Raskshas Swayam Sevaks ) are outsiders. They are Paradesis from Bene Israeli. After gobbling the Master Key by tampering the fraud EVMs the Murderers of democratic institutions (Modi) of BJP (Bevakoof Jhoothe Psychopaths) have become emboldened and are indulging in all sorts of atrocities on 99.9% All Awakened Aboriginal Societies the sarvajan Samaj including the SC/ST and Converted Religious Minorities, poor Baniyas and the non-chitpavan brahmins. To stop this the Sarvajan Samaj must unite and put all efforts to bring back Ballot Papers in place of EVMs which has negated the Universal Adult Franchise and to stop the worst form of exploitation in the last 6 years and that too the last few years of Yogi’s rule in UP. we must take oath to overthrow these ant-women BJP and see these people with hatred, anger, jealousy and delusion which are defilement of the mind are put in mental asylums in Bene Israel for their madness and force them to quit Prabuddha Bharat to save Democracy, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity as enshrined in our Marvelous Modern Constitution.

    It was given by the Mohammedans to the natives for the purpose of distinguishing themselves [from them]. It does not occur in any Sanskrit work prior to the Mohammedan invasion. They did not feel the necessity of a common name, because they had no conception of their having constituted a community. chitpavan brahmin RSSised Hindutva Society as such does not exist. It is only a collection of castes. Each caste is conscious of its existence. Its survival is the be-all and end-all of its existence. Castes do not even form a federation. A caste has no feeling that it is affiliated to other castes, except when there is a Hindu-Muslim riot. On all other occasions each caste endeavours to segregate itself and to distinguish itself from other castes.”

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  5. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Quotes.

    The man who fought for the nation, for the poor people and the right to education is none other than Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. To commemorate his birthday, the whole nation celebrates Ambedkar Jayanti on 14th April every year. A grand celebrations here weld in Parliment House and different organisations held the events on this day. Get the best collection of Ambedkar Jayanti Images for facebook & Whatsapp and also share Inspirational Ambedkar Jayanti Quotes.

    He greatly contributed to the nation as a philosopher, jurist, anthropologist, politician, economist and historian. Ambedkar was elected as the first law minister of the independent India. Dr B R Ambedkar Motivational Quotes which also given the inspiration to many people. He also contributed to planning the Constitution of India, serving as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee from 29th August 1947 to 24th January 1950. Babasaheb Ambedkar was born on the same day in the year 1891 to Ramji Maloji Sakpal and Bhimabai.

    Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti Quotes

    He had also established the “Bahishkrit Hitkarini Sabha” 1923 in India with an aim to spread the importance of education and as well as to enhance the financial status of the low group people of India. He runs a social movement for people with a slogan “Educate-Agitate-Organize” aiming to destroy the casteism in India. He also rebuilt the Indian Society by following the rule of equality of human beings. Download Ambedkar Jayanti Wallpapers and Bhim Jayanti HD Images from this page. Instead of searching in Google, you can directly download the Happy Ambedkar Jayanti Images from here.

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    Baba Saheb held a keen awareness against the social divisions commanding in the country at that time. He organised campaigns to spread awareness and words of equality and fought against the Indian caste system. Due to deteriorating health, Baba Saheb Ambedkar has died on 6th December in the year 1956. Mass celebrations are held throughout the nation on this day to pay homage to B. R. Ambedkar for his contribution done for the Constitution of India.

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    Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Quotes.

    Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
    I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved

    For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

    We must stand on our own feet and fight as best as we can for our rights. So carry on your agitation and organize your forces. Power and prestige will come to you through struggle

    A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
    Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

    Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
    History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

    Dr B R Ambedkar Motivational Quotes

    Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
    Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

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