Ven. Akshay Kamble

Source: Buddha and his Dhamma - Dr.B.R.AMBEDKAR What is saddhammasa?  SECTION ONE--THE FUNCTIONS OF SADDHAMMA   1. *To Cleans  1.To cleanse the Mind of its impurities 2. To Make the World a Kingdom of Righteousness SECTION TWO--DHAMMA TO BE SADDHAMMA MUST PROMOTE PRADNYA   1. dham ma is Saddhamma when it makes learning open to all   2. Dhamma is Saddhamma when it teaches that mere learning is not enough: it may lead to pedantry  3. Dhamma is Saddhamma when it teaches that what is needed is Pradnya SECTION THREE--DHAMMA TO BE SADDHAMMA MUST PROMOTE MAITRI   1. Dhamma is Saddhamma only when it teaches that mere Pradnya is not enough: it must be accompanied by Sila 2. Dhamma is Saddhamma only when it teaches that besides Pradnya and Sila what is necessary is Karuna  3.Dhamma is Saddhamma only when it teaches that more than Karuna what is necessary is Maitri SECTION FOUR--DHAMMA TO BE SADDHAMMA MUST PULL DOWN ALL SOCIAL BARRIERS   1. Dhamma to be Saddhamma must b

Title- Professing To Be A Buddhist Taking refuge in the Triple Gem by reciting “Buddham saranam gacchami, Dhammam saranam gacchami, Samgham saranam gacchami” with conviction and wisdom in front of a Buddha statue or a pagoda or a bhikkhu is the first step to become a Buddhist. If there is no Buddha statue, pagoda or bhikkhu, one may take refuge in the Triple Gem by oneself by reciting the above formula. Being established in the Triple Gem is the first step to become one established in the right view. So it is very important. The recitation of the above formula can be in any language. But reciting in Pali, the words of the Buddha (Buddha bhasita) is more effective and more beneficial to one who take refuge in the Triple Gem. In taking up the life of a Buddhist one needs not be ceremonious, one may just recite the Pali words silently without any ceremony and without letting other people know about it. Conviction is more important than holding a ceremony. As the Myanmar saying g

Buddhism  Map Mauryan Period, 322–185 BC The remains from the Mauryan period are very few, they consist mainly of the Asokan Rock Edicts and the Pillars, which are normally inscribed and surmounted by lions, elephants or bulls (only a small selection of them are shown here). In Kumraha on the edge of modern day Patna are old architectural remains of the ancient city walls, and from Didarganj on the banks on the Ganges a splendid human-size Yakṣinī modelled in the round, and highly polished, has been found. The excavated rock caves at Barabar, although later inhabited by Buddhists, were carved out for the Ājīvaka sect, but their main importance lies in the fact that they provided the models for the great rock cave complexes at Ajāntā, Ellora and eslewhere in the coming centuries. Follow Us On: Facebook Follow Us On: INSTAGRAM Follow us on: Twitter

THE WAY TO BEYOND CRITICISM (It is one of the best sutta .please read it with  patience) 12. Rāsiya sutta Then Rāsiya the chief went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: “Sir, I have heard this: ‘The ascetic Gotama criticizes all forms of mortification. He categorically condemns and  him with an untruth? Is their explanation in line with the teaching? Are there any legitimate grounds for rebuke and criticism?” “Chief, those who say this do not repeat what I have said. They misrepresent me with what is false, baseless, and untrue. These two extremes should not be cultivated by one who has gone forth. Indulgence in sensual pleasures, which is low, crude, ordinary, ignoble, and pointless. And indulgence in self-mortification, which is painful, ignoble, and pointless. Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One woke up by understanding the middle way, which gives vision and knowledge, and leads to peace, direct knowledge, awakening, and extinguishme

Title- Associates of Enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya Dhamma s ) Bodhipakkhiya is the combination of the Pali words: Bodhi, pakkha and iya . Bodhi means Magga-nana or Enlightenment of the Four Ariya Truths. Bodhipakkhiya means the components or associates of Enlightenment. Mindfulness (Sati), effort (viriya), etc., are called the factors associated with Enlightenment. The Bodhipakkhiya dhammas consist of Thirteen-Seven Factors, namely:     The 4 foundations of mindfulness (Satipatthana),    The 4 supreme efforts (Sammappadhana),     The 4 bases of accomplishment (Iddhipada),     The 5 faculties (Indriya),     The 5 powers (Bala),     The 7 factors of enlightenment (Bhojjhanga) and     The 8 constituents of the path (magganga). Explanation of the 4 foundations of mindfulness (Satipatthana) Satipatthana means mindfulness or heedfulness which is firmly established on its objects. There are 4 Satipatthanas or foundation of mindfulness (1)    K

21meditation for the Shamatha 🙏🙏 སེམས་གནས་དགུ ༡༽སེམས་འཇོག་པ།  ༢༽རྒྱུན་དུ་འཇོག་པ།  ༣༽གླན་ཏེ་འཇོག་པ།  ༤༽ཉེ་བར་འཇོག་པ།  ༥༽དུལ་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༦༽ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༧༽རྣམ་པར་ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༨༽རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ།  ༩༽མཉམ་པར་འཇོག་པ་སྟེ་དགུ Deepening Calm-Abiding- The Nine Stages of Abiding  1) Stage Stabilising in the Mind  2) Stage Continuous Stabilising  3) Stage Habitual Stabilisation  4) Stage Near Stabilsation  5) Stage Habituation  6) Stage Pacifying  7) Stage Thorough Pacification  8)Stage Becoming One-Pointed  9) Stage Entrance into Samadhi  The elephant is the example of the mind for: If an elephant is wild, it is very dangerous to all other animals. Likewise, if the mind is not tamed it harms others. All suffering is caused by the untamed mind.  An elephant once tamed obeys its master better than any other animal; even if the master were to say pick up a very large hot ball with its trunk, the elephant will do so. Therefore, the mind when tamed, can perform any action, no

THE FIRST DISCOURSE OF THE BUDDHA DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANA SUTTA Thus have I heard: On one occasion the Exalted One was residing at the Deer Park,[2] in Isipatana,[3] near Benares. Thereupon the Exalted One addressed the group of five Bhikkhus as follows: "There are these two extremes (antā), O Bhikkhus, which should be avoided by one who has renounced (pabbajitena) -- (i) Indulgence in sensual pleasures [4]-- this is base, vulgar, worldly, ignoble and profitless; and, (ii) Addiction to self-mortification [5] -- this is painful, ignoble and profitless. Abandoning both these extremes the Tathāgata [6] has comprehended the Middle Path (Majjhima Patipadā) which promotes sight (cakkhu) and knowledge (ñāna), and which tends to peace (vupasamāya), [7] higher wisdom (abhiññāya), [8] enlightenment (sambodhāya), [9] and Nibbāna. What, O Bhikkhus, is that Middle Path the Tathāgata has comprehended which promotes sight and knowledge, and which tends to peace, higher wisdom, en

Loving-Kindness thus have i heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Park. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: “Bhikkhus!” “Venerable sir!” those bhikkhus replied. The Blessed One said this: “Bhikkhus, when the liberation of the mind by loving-kindness has been pursued, developed, and cultivated, made a vehicle and basis, carried out, consolidated, and properly undertaken, eight benefits are to be expected. What eight? ( 1) “One sleeps well;  (2) one awakens happily;  (3) one does not have bad dreams;  (4) one is pleasing to human beings;  (5) one is pleasing to spirits;  (6) deities protect one;  (7) fire, poison, and weapons do not injure one; and  (8) if one does not penetrate further, one moves on to the brahmā world. “When, bhikkhus, the liberation of the mind by loving-kindness has been pursued, developed, and cultivated, made a vehicle and basis, carried out, consolidated, an

WHAT IS NOT DHAMMA?  Source: Buddha And His Dhamma- Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR  1. The Brahmins put all their emphasis upon knowledge. They taught that knowledge was the be-all and end-all of everything. Nothing further was to be considered.     2. The Buddha was on the other hand an upholder of education for all. Besides, he was more concerned with the use of knowledge a man is likely to make, than with knowledge itself.     3. Consequently he was very particular to emphasise that he who has knowledge must have Sila (Virtue), and that knowledge without Sila (Virtue) was most dangerous.     4. The importance of Sila, as against Prajna, is well illustrated by what he told the Bhikku Patisena.     5. In olden times when Buddha was residing at Sravasti, there was an old mendicant called Patisena who, being by nature cross and dull, could not learn so much as one Gatha by heart.     6. The Buddha accordingly ordered 500 Arahatas day by day to instruct him, but after three years he stil