The Tibetans were the first Buddhists to set up a Buddhist community in my town. It just so happened they purchased the house I had been living in for over half a year. I'm looking forward to going back there through the interfaith group.
Wow. Small town?
It was nearly 30 years ago that I was searching for my spiritual home. On Saturday nights it would be firesides with the Baha'is, Sunday mornings chanting with the Buddhists, and Sunday evening singing praises to Jesus with the Baptists. Someone told me my weekends would be a scary proposition for most New Zealanders. It was certainly intense at the time. There was no internet back then. I've been a Baha'i for nearly 28 years now.
Ha. That sounds confusing. I think I did my search in two year intevals. From I dont know when to about fourteen, my mother introduced me to witchcraft and pagan views. At about sixteen, she took us to church out of the blue. She wanted to have the perfect family: white picket fence, christian family, labor dog, single family home, with a boy and girl and husband.
I would have never been christian if she didnt take us to church. She didnt go though. I remember saying I didnt believe in god so I wrote mt jesus prayers. I read the bible. Then I met my Catholic friend. Intrigued by devotional lifestyle I wanted to be a priest.
After five or years (of 2012 to 2014) going to Mass with my friend, her influence let me made the jump. This was during the same timeline I came out as lesbian. Not a good combination with The Church. I was offended that the Church has conversion program foe so calles homosexual attractions. Within the program they tell converts not to refer to themselves as LGBTQ.
Anyway, I slide some and studied paganism (going back to childhood). Then I practiced Zen Buddhism. I hit the wall being in the middle of the Shoshu and SGI debate.
I came back and thats when I took the precepts and now practice with the Kadampa tibetan tradition and school.
Its just fantastic to contemplate the reality of Buddha. Obviously its a different experience as a Baha'i com
Yes. I would guess so.
Evidently there is only one way to discover our Buddha nature and that is through Buddha. It sounds a little like
John 14:6 that the Christian fundamentalists like to quote:
Buddha nature, the nature of being enlightened once one has full wisdom isnt like a soul, spirit, or mystical spark inside a person.
Here Buddha nature is called an embryo. Its a strictly Mahayana concept.
Wiki Buddha Nature. Id have to find a non wiki source.
"According to the
Ratnagotravibhāga, all sentient have "the embryo of the Tathagata" in three senses:
[48]
- the Tathāgata's dharmakāya permeates all sentient beings;
- the Tathāgata's tathatā is omnipresent (avyatibheda);
- the Tathāgata's species (gotra, a synonym for tathagatagarbha) occurs in them.
The Ratnagotravibhāga equates enlightenment with the nirvāṇa-realm and the dharmakāya.
[41] It gives a variety of synonyms for
garbha, the most frequently used being
gotra and
dhatu.
[47]"
They use theist terms to describe eastern concepts. That and Mahayana Buddhism, some traditions, treat The Buddha as a savior while in Theravada, there is no such concept that I know of in the suttas.
King James Bible
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
That's weird you got Buddha nature out of this. The Buddha is not god and we don't get The Dharma from an outside party, so we don't get it from The Buddha. He isn't a god nor someone we get "anything" from.
It's an "absence of" not something you get by going through anyone.
This is the
result of enlightenment. Buddha nature (the potential nature/seed of an enlightened nature) just means the potential to be enlightened not the enlightened. The "seed" of enlightenment. Ten Tai tradition sees every thing with a Buddha nature, animals and plants included.
Did The Buddha create suffering and compassion?
The Dharma isn't physical.
About BDK: You would think->
BDK (Bukkyo Kendo KaiyoKai)
Quick note on Buddha Nature and Omnicent Mind (Not The Buddha Siddhartha)
Knowing the mind
With transcript under the audio
Thubten Chodron is a Tibetan Buddhist
“Is the Buddha’s omniscient mind permanent?” No, because if it were permanent it
couldn’t change, which means it couldn’t perceive anything. It perceives everything, so it changes. It is conditioned. Regarding the wisdom aspect: the wisdom truth body of the Buddha’s mind is a conditioned phenomena. The nature body of the Buddha’s mind, which is the emptiness of true existence. The objective existence of phenomena through their own entity without being posited by thought."phenomenon. We talked about this some time ago and so those videos are somewhere on YouTube. But they’re there because we went through this. We talked about the four bodies of the Buddha. We need to hear these things many times because we don’t always get it at first. We don’t always get it the second, third, fourth or fifth time."
Each of our Buddha Nature cannot be something permanent such as a soul. It is ever changing (impermanent) so one moment is not the same as the next.