Then the Exalted One spoke to the group of five monks: These two extremes, O monks, should not be practiced by one who has gone forth [from the household life]. This section of the book begins by highlighting the importance to every Buddhist tradition of when the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama achieved awakening at Bodh Gaya, in India.
The Buddhist world is vast, the text states, and has generated numerous schools of thought and philosophical systems elaborating on fundamental insights. Central to any Buddhist view of reality is the insight that all phenomena are impermanent, without essence or selfless , and interdependent.
Search this site. La Biblia realmente dice eso? Robert Campbell, D. Adult Attachment PDF. Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry: v. I was doing my own thing. But now that you have afflicted me, I obey your word. So in other words, this pain, as painful as it was, this emptiness, as real as it was, has been a means of blessing to us, for God has used it to correct.
Thirdly, God uses suffering not simply as a corrective but in order to be constructive. How does this lady have such wonderfully tender eyes? How is it that this gentleman seems so empathetic with my pain, with my brokenness, with my wanderings, with my stupidity?
How did this guy get like this? God used suffering in his life to construct him! Fourthly, we experience some suffering simply in order that God might be glorified. This man is the way he is in order that the work of God might be displayed in his life. It is for this exact moment that God may be glorified.
When I was invited to be the assistant minister at Charlotte Chapel in , and I was twenty-three, I looked really mature; I looked like I was about sixteen. This is part of the reason. Will you believe God? Will I bring my mind beneath him? Will I submit to him? And fifthly, the purpose of suffering is, in certain cases, cosmic. Having said that every experience of pain should not be regarded as a cosmic event, I need at the other end to say that the purpose of suffering is cosmic.
And Job is the most profound and detailed exploration of it. Because the experience of suffering in the life of Job is to demonstrate before Satan and the angels that a person can love and trust God for who he is in himself and not merely for what he gets out of him—can love and trust God for who he is in himself and not simply for what he gets out of him. This is very, very important. Now, the fact of the matter is, God blesses when we apply his principles.
There is an attendant blessing that accompanies it. But he does not have his hand up his back in relationship to this, and we cannot manipulate a sovereign God. And the same God who chooses to bless us with a lovely sunset may choose to bless us with the experience of suffering.
Again, this fellow on Bodega Bay—as it just comes to me now—he talks about sitting watching the sunset there at the bay. And he says,. I look at his majesty before me, and I ask him what have I done to deserve being in this beautiful setting. He gently replies:. Now, loved ones, if we do not know how to suffer, then how in the world will anybody know how to suffer?
If we do not know how to face pain, how will the godless know how to face pain? If we cannot, in light of the realities of eternity, face the issue head-on, then what are our friends or our neighbors going to do? You see, because Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life, but it is how to face the difficulties of life.
This is what we need to be saying to our friends and neighbors. And as you live, you will experience all of these things. Is the inference being that God should only allow those who do not know him to go down? Christianity is not an insurance policy against suffering and pain. And God uses it—pain, illness, crashed and crushed hopes, stupid choices, bereavement—to test the faith of Christians to make them stronger, better, and wiser. Now, loved ones, when you begin to grapple with this, when you read the story of Job and think it out, then you will realize that the Bible is eminently wise in relationship to these things.
And you need to be able—we need to be able—to dialogue with our friends in relationship to a worldview that is cogent. They may not accept it, but we ought to still at least be able to make the case. Do you think that would make a difference to suffering? Without lying, without stealing, without murder? How much do you think we would make an impact on suffering if a society were to obey the Ten Commandments?
Push them back a little bit. Shove them into the corner, kindly. Kindly into the corner. And then also, understand this so that you can convey it: pain and growing old are blessings, not curses. Children understand this. I wanted to talk to you. And the same is true of old age. Old age is great. You heard it here! Write it down. Gray hairs and wrinkles. Why gray hair and wrinkles? If you think about it, the process of creation could have been that people were made, they look like something out of Star Trek or one of those weird things with those horrendous heads and faces so that you were unable to distinguish age at all, and then you lived a kind of ageless existence, and all of a sudden you fell down a trap hole in the ground and you were gone.
It could have been that way. I better prepare for the final journey. Where does that come from? See, Alistair? Are you ready to meet me? Because nobody wants to face the fact of death. I bought a CD the other day, it had that old song from Fame on it, remember? Fame sings? And neither are we! Well, our time is gone.
The Buddha reminded us to practice the Thirty-Seven Principles to Enlightenment, which tells us the way to live a wholesome life. We must have right views and correct belief, think in a wholesome way, and earn our living honesty. When we are inspired to do good and serve as a bodhisattva, it takes just the slightest setback to upset us and make us afflicted. Then, we want to quit. When we start to have the intention and conviction to do good, very quickly, our faith in what we're doing wavers and we lose our conviction.
It's all because we're upset, or we resent others for not treating us well. So, we really have to be on guard against this and always be vigilant to stop ourselves from developing such a wrong mentality. We need to always check to see whether our good intentions have changed, whether we've slackened or stopped, and whether our convictions are gone. Then we need to ask ourselves whether we have, unintentionally, injured people and made them lose their good intentions or convictions.
The Thirty-Seven Principles of Enlightenment teaches us to reflect and realize how the body is unclean, realize that feelings cause suffering, realize our thoughts are impermanent, and realize that all phenomena are empty of a true, permanent self. We must be cautious in all we do. We have to take good care of our heart and mind and stay true to our Buddha nature by removing any wrong that has already started, preventing any wrong from starting, beginning doing good deeds, and continuing to do good deeds.
We must never postpone doing good deeds or put off correcting our wrongs because regret is too high a price to pay. We must avoid all that is wrong and do all that is good and wholesome because life is too short. Like the morning dew drop that disappears once the sun rises, life is as fleeting as a dream, and as fragile as a bubble.
Since our life is so transient, we should apply such truth in our daily life and think in seconds and not years. A day is made up of 86, seconds. Life changing incident can happen any second that means the difference between life and death. To be safe and well at each second, we ought to be very grateful. At every passing second, let us harbor a heart of gratitude and prevent our thoughts from going astray. The Buddha's teachings are a wonderful guide especially when we live in turbulent times and natural disasters are happening at an alarming rate.
The Buddha wanted everyone to realize the truth of suffering, its cause and the way to eliminate it, and He exhorted all to faithfully uphold and walk the Eightfold Path. Let us not rely only on knowledge to guide us in life, but wisdom too. When we do what is right, we are using our wisdom. When we refrain from doing what is wrong, we are also using our wisdom. We should learn quickly. That will be a true blessing. Notes from Over the Edge began as scribbling on paper in a black spiral notebook.
Since , critically acclaimed author, Jim Palmer, has been chronicling his spiritual journey out of organized religion, in search of a deeper spirituality and lasting happiness. After two near-death experiences, Palmer set his resolve to address the root cause of his own personal suffering, and to know true peace and freedom, which he had failed to find through religion.
La Biblia realmente dice eso? Robert Campbell, D. Adult Attachment PDF. Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry: v. This section of the book begins by highlighting the importance to every Buddhist tradition of when the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama achieved awakening at Bodh Gaya, in India. The Buddhist world is vast, the text states, and has generated numerous schools of thought and philosophical systems elaborating on fundamental insights.
Central to any Buddhist view of reality is the insight that all phenomena are impermanent, without essence or selfless , and interdependent. While Buddhists generally understand insight into the nature of reality to be necessary for liberation, it is not regarded as sufficient. Insight is an antidote to ignorance, but liberation also requires the overcoming of attachment and aversion, which is achieved through the cultivation of moral discipline and mindfulness.
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