Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
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Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
Class Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony and Epilogue by Hozan Alan SenaukeWisdom Publications 2016Draft1—Class—J'.15..171Prologueby llozan Alan ScuaukcGotama Buddha came of age in a land of kingdoms, tribes, and varna. meaning social class or caste. Tr was a time and place both distinct from and similar to our own, in which a person’s lif Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony e was strongly determined by then social status, family occupation, cultural identity, and gender. Before the Buddha’s awakening, identity was definitClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
ive. If one w as bom into a warrior caste or that of a merchant or a farmer or an outcast, one lived that life completely and almost always married soClass Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony Inunan abilities apart from a societal role assigned at birth. So the Buddha s teaching can be seen as a radical assertion of individual potentiality Only by one's effort was enlightenment possible, beyond the constraints of caste, position at birth, or conventional reality. In verse 396 of the Dha Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony mmapada, the Buddha says:I do not call one a bialunin only because of birth, because he is bom of a (brahmin) mother If he has attachments. he is to bClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
e called only “self-important” One who IS without attachments, without clinging — him do I call a brahmin.At the same lune, the Buddha and his disciplClass Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony Rajagaha. Vesãlĩ. and Kosambĩ. They depended on layw’omen and men. npãsikã and upãsaka, for the requisites of life. Even today monks and nuns in the Theravada tradition of Burma (01 My anmar). 1 hailaud. Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Laos go on morning alms rounds for their food. Although they keep a st Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony rict monastic discipline, it is mistaken to imagine that Southeast Asian monasteries are cloistered and apart from their brothers and sisters in the sClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
ecular w orld. Monasteries and secular communities are mutually dependent, U1 a tradition that is sweet and fully alive.Tn the autumn of 2007 people aClass Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony ry government's repression, lire protests were triggered by sudden and radical increases in fuel prices dial drastically affected people's ability to gel to work or to afford fuel for cooking or even basic foods. The intimate connection between monks, nuns, and laypeople has historically meant that Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony when one sector is suffering, the other responds. Burmese monks have a long history of speaking out against injustice, rhey have been bold in oppositiClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
on to British colonialism, dictatorship, and two decades of a military junta.Tn Burma. Buddhist monks have been agents of change in a society that staClass Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony fluence of circumstances created an opening the election of a new civilian government (however one might question the electoral process), the release of political prisoners (including Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi after many years of house arrest), nonviolent movements around the world encoura Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony ged by 2011 's "Arab spring." and a new dialogue between Burma's leaders and representatives from Europe, the United States, and other economic powersClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
. There was a feeling of possibility and hope 111 the air.This anthology underscores living within the Dhamma in a free and harmonious society, using Class Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony ection from the Pall suttas. In 2012 communal violence erupted in Burma's Rakhine State and elsewhere in that country. A need to look deeply into the Buddha’s teachings on social harmony has become urgent Not being a scholar or a translator. I contacted several learned friends. It nuns out that seve Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony ral years back Bhikkhu Bodin. one of our most respected and prolific interpreters of Early Buddhism, had assembled such a collection as an addendum toClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
a training curriculum for social harmony in Sri Lanka, organized by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University.Here is the BuClass Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony exploiting themselves or others. While circumstances in Burma. Sri Lanka. Thailand. India or the United States vary. the Buddha's social teachings offer a kind of wisdom that transcends the particularities of time and place. His teachings provide a ground of liberation upon which each nation and pe Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony ople can build according to then own needs.I am most grateful to Bhikkhu Bodhi for his wisdom and generosity. People of all faiths and beliefs in everClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
y land yearn for happiness and liberation I honor those who move towards freedom. and hope that the Buddlin's words on social harmony may lead us fearClass Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony lagued humankind from time immemorial, leaving the annals of history stained with blood. Willie the human heart has always stirred with the yeanling for peace, harmony, and loving fellowship, the means of satisfying this yeanling have ever proved elusive. In international relations, wars succeed one Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony another like scenes in a film, with only brief pauses during which the hostile powers set about forging new alliances and making surreptitious grabsClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
for territory. Social systems are constantly tom by class straggles. Ill which the elite class seeks to amass more privileges and the subordinate clasClass Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony tocrats and the common people, between capital and labor, it seems that only the faces change while the underlying dynamics of the power straggle remain the same. Communities as well are constantly threatened by internal strife. Rival blds for power, differences of opinion, and competing interests a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony mong their members can tear them apart, giving birth to new cycles of enmity. When each new war. division, or dispute has peaked, the hope rises thatClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
reconciliation will follow, that peace and unity will eventually prevail. Yet. again and again, these hopes are quickly disappointed.A moving passage Class Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony occasion. It IS said. Sakka. the ruler of the gods, visited the Buddha and asked the anguished question: "Why IS It. that when people wish to live in peace, without hatied or enmity, they are every where embi oiled in hatred and enmity?" (see Text VIII.l) The same question rings down the ages, and Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony could be asked with equal urgency about many troublespots 111 today’s world: Iraq and Syria, the Gaza Strip, the Central African Republic and South SuClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
dan. Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Charleston and Baltimore.This problem must also have weighed on the Buddha’s heart as he traveled the Ganges plain on his Class Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony e at the bottom. Those outside the caste system, the outcastes. weie treated even worse, subjected to the most degrading indignities. The political landscape, too. was changing, as monarchies led by ambitious kings rose from the ashes of the older tribal states and embarked on military' campaigns in Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony tended to expand then domains. Within the courts personal rivalries among those hungry for power were bitter. Even the spiritual communities of the tiClass material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony
me weie not immune to conflict Plrilosophers and ascetics proud of then theories sparred with each other in passionate debates, each seeking to defeatClass Material forThe Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal HarmonyAn Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonEdited by Bhikkhu BodhiPrologue a Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony tigo such violence had produced in him. perhaps soon after he left Kapilavatthu and witnessed first hand the world outside his native land:"Fear has arisen from one who has taken up violence: behold the people engaged in strife I will tell you of my sense of urgency, how I was stirred by a sense of Class material for the buddhas teachings on social and communal harmony urgency.5‘ Having seen people tremblinglike fish in a biook with little water.when I saw (hem hostile to one another,fear came upon me.Gọi ngay
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