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Buddhism Buddhist Buddhic Contemplation
Glossary Terminology
Discourse on Causal Relations
During his "Discourse on Casual Relations", Gautama Buddha discussed the four
characteristics of causation: objectivity, necessity, invariability and
conditionality. In order to get off the karmic wheel one must initiate potent
moral action in any moment of time so that one's skandhas will be properly
configured.
Five Skandhas
A person consists of five
skandhas: a bodily form, feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness. At
any given moment in time, you are an amalgam of these five groups. Any future
blended patterns are the result of prior causations.
Gautama Buddha (Siddhartha)
The founder of Buddhism and
the primary enlightenment guiding light to the Buddhists. Know after his
enlightenment as the Sakyamuni Buddha and Gautama Buddha, he was born around 563
B.C., in Kapilavastu, India into the clan of the Shakyas, a warrior tribe
inhabiting an area just below the Himalayan foothills.
A compassionate man of
philosophical intellect and inspirational wisdom, Gautama Buddha's disciplines
included all social classes from kings to bankers to courtesans. Basic Buddhism
principles that he taught were to treat all sentient beings like oneself and to
cultivate compassion, kindliness, empathy and fairness. Gautama Buddha
emphasized that a good society was casteless and everyone was equal under karmic
law. He traveled around and taught in the Ganges basin until he was eighty
four when Gautama Buddha passed on in Kushinagara, India.
Karmic Law (Law of Causation)
Karmic Law, Pratityasamypadha, (the Law of Causation or Dependent Origination) is the cornerstone for Buddha's entire system of
Buddhism teachings. Although all things are impermanent, all occurrences in one’s life
are conditioned by others and with a turn of the wheel then form
conditions for other occurrences. One event, action, or reaction, results in an
effect and that in turn causes other events, actions, and reactions.
Middle Way
Gautama Buddha gave his first sermon about Buddhism and Buddhist practices at
the age of thirty-five was in the Deer Park at Sarnath. It was called, "Turning
the Wheel of Dharma". Buddha taught a new spiritual path which he called "The
Middle Way". If one followed the Buddhism Pathway it would bring a spiritual pilgrim - clear vision, insight, wisdom,
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