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The Enlightened View. Dharma Drum Mountain 法鼓山 English Dharma Class. Thursday December 15 th , 2011. Why Enlightenment?. 悟,覺,菩提 , 成佛,無 “Enlightened” to something? “Our” True Nature What was the Buddha’s primary question? Why is there suffering in this world?
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The Enlightened View Dharma Drum Mountain 法鼓山English Dharma Class Thursday December 15th, 2011
Why Enlightenment? • 悟,覺,菩提,成佛,無 • “Enlightened” to something? • “Our” True Nature • What was the Buddha’s primary question? • Why is there suffering in this world? • His answer is what we call “enlightenment.” • Awakening • End of words – beyond description • Freedom from any limitation
The Buddha’s Awakening • Jhanas – meditative concentration • Four primary stages • First True Knowledge • Remembering past lives • Understanding one’s own “causes and effect” • Second True Knowledge • Knowing the deaths and rebirths of others • Understanding other’s “causes and effects” • Third and Final True Knowledge • Elimination of the asavas有漏 • Cessation of “cause and effect” • “Enlightenment”
Asavas有漏/無漏 • Outflow, inflow, taint, defilement… • Three primary factors • Desire for sensory experience • Desire for existence • Ignorance • Knowledge of their elimination is known as their awakening
Mara 魔羅 • “The Bad Guy” Buddhism • Represents all things that take us away from the Path. • A friend of Buddhism
Cessation of Karma Of all those things that arise from a cause, The Tathagata speaks of their cause; And how they cease to be, that too he tells, Thus is the doctrine of the Great Monk. 諸法因緣生如來說其因諸法滅亦然是大沙門說
Our Awakening • Faith, practice, realization • Four Signs of Awakening • Generosity • Tenderness • Compassion • Sympathy • To see all things with the eye of a Buddha