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Eternal Moments: Teachings of the Buddha
Featuring a collection of approximately 90 passages from Buddhist teaching around the world which reflects the diversity of Buddhist traditions, this book focuses on the Pali Canon. It includes chapters that show stages of the Buddha's healing roles, from diagnosis (starting with the chain of causation) to cure (ending with enlightenment).
176 pages, Hardcover
First published August 3, 2009
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September 26, 2022
"All that we are is a result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts."
I was honestly looking to purchase a complete set of Pali Canon: Abhidhamma Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka, Vinaya Pitaka, P Li Canon, Abhidharma, Kathavatthu, Dhammasangani, Khandhaka, Jnanapr but that has prove to be a difficult find? I'm not sure if it's just hard to FIND a complete collection of the works or that's not something that actually exists in the entirety. But Thriftbooks had this, so I thought I'd use it as a preliminary introduction.
As part of my goal to read one or more religious texts a year, I thought I'd go with something a little easer than my readings of Holy Bible: King James Version or the Talmud and more along the lines of Siddhartha.
I really loved the teachings here, they're very straightforward and... well, I hesitate to say that some of them are "obvious" but you have lines like The righteous man rejoices both in this world and the next; he delights and he rejoices when he sees his own good deeds - but they are. But they are written in such a poetic way that reads like music.
The all is reflected in the one, and the one in the all reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 and I am the being that you call ‘the world.” Or also, “the universe.” Or “God,” or “the truth.” Or “Whole.” Or One.” And, I am “you.” Welcome, poor fool, ignorant of your own limits. Something about both of them ring the same in my ear.
It's a very poetic piece of literature and I hope to read more verses of it in the future.
I was honestly looking to purchase a complete set of Pali Canon: Abhidhamma Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka, Vinaya Pitaka, P Li Canon, Abhidharma, Kathavatthu, Dhammasangani, Khandhaka, Jnanapr but that has prove to be a difficult find? I'm not sure if it's just hard to FIND a complete collection of the works or that's not something that actually exists in the entirety. But Thriftbooks had this, so I thought I'd use it as a preliminary introduction.
As part of my goal to read one or more religious texts a year, I thought I'd go with something a little easer than my readings of Holy Bible: King James Version or the Talmud and more along the lines of Siddhartha.
I really loved the teachings here, they're very straightforward and... well, I hesitate to say that some of them are "obvious" but you have lines like The righteous man rejoices both in this world and the next; he delights and he rejoices when he sees his own good deeds - but they are. But they are written in such a poetic way that reads like music.
The all is reflected in the one, and the one in the all reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 and I am the being that you call ‘the world.” Or also, “the universe.” Or “God,” or “the truth.” Or “Whole.” Or One.” And, I am “you.” Welcome, poor fool, ignorant of your own limits. Something about both of them ring the same in my ear.
It's a very poetic piece of literature and I hope to read more verses of it in the future.
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