The Discourse on the All-embracing Net of Views: The Brahmajāla Sutta and Its CommentariesThe Brahmajala, one of the Buddha’s most important discourses, weaves a net of sixty-two cases capturing all the speculative views on the self and the world. The massive commentary and subcommentary allow for a close in-depth study of the work. The book contains a lengthy treatise on the Theravada conception of the Bodhisattva ideal. The long introduction is itself a modern philosophical commentary on the sutta. |
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according aggregates annihilation annihilationism annihilationist arahat arahatship arise attainment bases of contact bhikkhus birth bodhisattva body Brahmajāla Buddha Buddhahood cessation characteristic clinging commentary compassion concentration condition consciousness craving death decisive-support defilements dependent origination dhammas dispraise doctrine emancipation endless equivocation equanimity eternal eternalists Exalted existence factors feeling finite five aggregates four foundations Four Noble Truths fulfilment future gift giving honorable recluses impermanent infinite jhāna kamma kasióa knowledge of omniscience loving kindness material form meditation mental method mind modes N.Sub.Cy nibbána Noble Eightfold Path noble qualities non-percipient immortality object one’s paccekabuddhas páramìs past lives path perception percipient perfection plane practice praise proclaim proximate cause reason recluse Gotama abstains recluses and brahmins recollection relinquishing renunciation requisites of enlightenment samsāra sense pleasures skillful means speculative views spiritual Sub.Cy subcommentary suffering supramundane supreme enlightenment sutta Tathágata teaching theorists Triple Gem truth understanding unwholesome virtue Visuddhimagga welfare wholesome wisdom word wrong view
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Page 53 - Having abandoned slander, he abstains from slander. He does not repeat elsewhere what he has heard here in order to divide others from the people here, nor does he repeat here what he has heard elsewhere in order to divide these from the people there. Thus he is a reconciler of those who are divided and a promoter of friendships. Rejoicing, delighting, and exulting in concord, he speaks only words that are conducive to concord.
Page 64 - There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance; such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such my span of life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there. There too I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance; such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such my span of life. Passing away from that state I re-arose here.
Page 63 - ... .There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance; such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such my span of life. Passing away from that state, I rearose there. There too I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance; such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such my span of life. Passing away from that state I re-arose...
Page 99 - ... And they would take the bowl of The Blessed One, and prepare a seat for him, and zealously show their reverence for him by placing food in the bowl. When he had finished his meal, The Blessed One, with due consideration for the different dispositions of their minds, would so teach them the Doctrine that some would become established in the refuges, some in the five precepts, some would become converted, some would attain to the fruit of either once returning, or of never returning, while some...
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Page 320 - I am the chief in the world, I am the best in the world, I am the first in the world. This is my last birth. There is now no existence again.
Page 294 - ... and what is not the path, purification by knowledge and vision of the way, and purification by knowledge and vision.
Page 318 - They are the four foundations of mindfulness, the four right efforts, the four constituents of psychic power, the five faculties, the five powers, the seven factors of enlightenment, and the Noble Eightfold Path.
Page 97 - ... the victor, and a collision or an accident sinks the flagship of the admiral like a broken potsherd to the bottom. Such things are the incidents always recurring, of the sovereignty of the seas.
Page 67 - We, brother, do not know that. But there is Brahma, the Great Brahma, the Supreme One, the Mighty One, the All-seeing One, the Ruler, the Lord of all, the Controller, the Creator, the Chief of all, appointing to each his place, the Ancient of days, the Father of all that are and are to be!
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The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen Stephan Schuhmacher,Gert Woerner No preview available - 1991 |