شاهين ☸️

[Huangbo Xiyun 🪷°•☸️•°🪷 @HongZhou1110308]

“It is not your might, O King, that could bring this about. If one does what is wholesome, merit follows; if one does what is evil, misfortune follows. This is one’s own doing, and its consequences cannot be bestowed by gods, dragons, or spirits.”

[TreasureTowerSeeker @TrsureTwrSeeker]

The Buddha said, “My good children, first of all, this [Lotus] sutra can make an unawakened bodhisattva aspire to awakening, make one who lacks kindness aspire to compassion, make one who likes slaughter aspire to great mercy, make one who is envious rejoice for others, make one who has attachments aspire to nonattachment, make one who is miserly aspire to generosity, make one who is arrogant aspire to keeping the precepts, make one who is angry aspire to forbearance, make one who is lazy aspire to diligence, make one who is distracted aspire to meditation, make one who is ignorant aspire to wisdom, make one who does not think of liberating others aspire to liberating them, make one who commits the ten evils aspire to the ten virtues, make one who is drawn to what is conditioned aspire to what is unconditioned, make one who is regressing aspire to nonregressing, make one who commits defiled acts aspire to nondefilement, and make one who has many delusions aspire to extinguish them. Good children, this is called the first unimaginably powerful merit of this sutra.” - Ten Merits of the Lotus Sutra, from the Sutra of of Innumerable Meanings

[Sobalaan 🧉 @Sobalaan]

اِرْضَ وَتَشَكَّرْ ۞ فَعَطَاءُ رَبِّكَ أَكْثَرُ ۞ وَالرُّوحُ وَدِيعَةٌ فِيكَ ۞

أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الرَّوْضَ أَخْضَرَ ۞ وَمِنْ قَلْبِ تُرَابٍ أَسْمَرَ ۞ أَخْرَجْنَا ثَمَرًا جَنِيًّا ۞ تَأْكُلُهُ وَيَكْفِيكَ ۞

وَفِي الزَّرْعِ سِرٌّ مُدَّخَرْ ۞ وَفِي الرَّبِيعِ وَعْدٌ تَكَرَّرْ ۞ فَاصْبِرْ عَلَى الْخَيْرِ ۞ وَاشْكُرْ عَاطِيكَ ۞

وَلَا تَحْزَنْ عَلَى مَا تَعَذَّرْ ۞ وَلَا تَغْتَرَّ بِمَا تَيَسَّرْ ۞ فَكَمْ مِنْ قَلِيلٍ أَغْنَاكَ ۞ وَكَمْ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ لَا يُغْنِيك ۞

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

@Sobalaan شكرا 🙏

[Upāsaka Philip ☀️🔥 @philipmerelabel]

At the moment of death, the person remembers the good and bad deeds he/she has done during his life.

If the strength of the good deeds is superior to the evil ones, the memory of these will be more prevalent and the person will take birth in the heavenly realms. If good and bad deeds have the same strength, the person is born in the human realm. If the bad deeds are stronger, the person is born in the lower realms.

Check this passage from the Noble Śūraṅgama Mahāyāna Sūtra.

"[Buddha Śākyamuni speaking] Ānanda, in the round of births and deaths in Saṃsāra, birth is caused by the habits [of passions] and death by the flow of transformation. [This is why] at the moment of death and before the heat completely leaves the body, all good and evil deeds of a lifetime suddenly reappear to someone who is dead but on the point of being reborn.

If his mind is wholly thoughtful, it will fly in the air and he will be reborn in heaven. If in this flight it is filled with blessedness and wisdom strongly sustained by his pure vow, it will open to let him behold the pure lands of all Buddhas in the ten directions; he will be reborn there as a result of his vow.

(...)

If his [good] thoughts and [evil] passions are in equal proportions, he will neither rise nor sink, but will be reborn in the realm of human beings where his intelligence comes from the clearness of his thoughts and his stupidity from the dullness of his passions.

(...)

If his [evil] passions and [good] thoughts are in the proportion of nine to one, he will sink into the wheel of fire and be reborn where wind and fire meet. He will dwell in the intermittent hell if his [evil] passions are great, in the unintermittent one if they are very strong, and in the avīci hell if he is completely dominated by extremely violent ones. If in addition he slanders the Mahāyāna, breaks the Buddha’s precepts, distorts the Dharma when preaching it to deceive his patrons for selfish gain or for fame, and commits the five rebellious acts and ten grave sins he will be reborn in all the avīci hells."

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

@kiskebaka Is there a website or app that provides resources for studying Confucianism in English?

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

@Sobalaan مثير. هل يعتبر عندكم نبياً او رسولاً؟

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

@wasteyavvaralu I’ve got it, thanks

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

من رحاب المعجم(1):

أبلمَ يُبلم، إبلامًا، فهو مُبلِم

•أبلم الشَّخصُ: سَكَتَ "حاولتُ محاورتَه فأبلم ولم يجبْني".

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

سُئل أجان سوات ذات مرة عن سبب عدم وجود إله في البوذية. لو كان لديكم إله، لكان بإمكانكم الشعور بأن هذا الإله سيعتني بكم عندما لا تستطيعون الاعتناء بأنفسكم. كان رده: «لو كان هناك إله يستطيع أن يأمر بأن آخذ لقمة واحدة من الطعام فتطعم العالم بأسره، لركعتُ لذلك الإله».

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

روحنا هي من صنع السماء، وعظامنا هي من صنع الأرض. وعندما لا يعود بإمكان الاثنين البقاء معًا، يعود كل منهما إلى مصدره. ما هو نقي وخفيف سيرتفع ويطفو إلى السماء، وما هو موحل وثقيل سيغرق ويتم امتصاصه في الأرض.

LIEH-TZU
A TAOIST GUIDE TO PRACTICAL LIVING
Eva Wong, p64

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

أبشمَ يُبشم، إبشامًا، فهو مُبْشِم، والمفعول مُبْشَم:

أبشم الطَّعامُ الشَّخصَ: أَتْخمه "اكتشف الطبيبُ أن سبب مرضه هو الإبشام".

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

@amit_buddh I want a Buddhist website where I can read books and that has many books. Are there any?

[B0dhisattva @B0dhisattvaa]

"Sáriputra, let it be known
that the Buddhas' words are without discrepancy,
that toward the Dharma preached by the Buddha one should display the strength of great faith." ~ Sublime Lotus Flower Sutra

[شاهين ☸️ @sh7m2n]

بدون هدف، لا يوجد جهد ولا نشاط متعمد.

[The Hellenist ☀️ @The_Hellenist]

Christians are unfit to educate children.

They invariably poison children's minds with Hebrew subversion, spiritually aborting the next generation, rendering them wholly incapable of defending the polis—or even themselves.

Only Pagans are qualified to educate the youth.

[Hellenist ☀️🏺⚡️ @RealHellenist]

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were practising Pagans. Believing in the Gods, offering sacrifices, composing hymns, and honouring the sacred Mysteries.

Here is the proof you were never taught:

Socrates:

‘I believe in the gods as no one else does.’ (Plato, Apology 35d)

Ordered a sacrifice to Asclepius with his final breath (Plato, Phaedo 118a)

Plato:

‘First and foremost, the existence of the gods must be proclaimed and defended.’ (Plato, Laws 886a)

Plato revered the Gods, was initiated into the sacred Mysteries, and taught the soul’s ascent to the divine through genuine initiatory rites—not as metaphors, but as sacred realities. (Plato, Phaedrus 250c; Symposium 210a–212c)

Called upon the Gods and performed sacrifices before his voyage to Sicily. (Seventh Letter 332e–333a)

Wrote hymns to Apollo, Artemis, and Persephone. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)

Plato founded his Academy near the sacred grove of Hecademus, a site already hallowed by ancient religious tradition. According to ancient sources, Plato consecrated the Academy to the Muses by erecting an altar in their honour, establishing the school as a semi-sacred sanctuary where philosophy and religious rites were united. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers; Plutarch, Cimon 13.8)

Aristotle:

Aristotle teaches that the ideal city must integrate organised religious practices, including sacrifices and sacred ceremonies. (Politics 7.9–10, 1329a27–36, 1330a8–16)
He writes: ‘The land devoted to the gods should be divided into two parts, one for the worship of the gods by means of sacrifices and the other for the maintenance of the priests.’ (Politics 1329a34–36)

‘He composed a hymn to Arete, and set up statues and altars to the gods.’ (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)

At Aristotle’s Lyceum, named after Apollo Lyceius, the school upheld the sacred tradition of offering regular sacrifices and holding festivals in the god’s honour. (Suda, entry ‘Lyceum’)

[Time ☸ @wasteyavvaralu]

>Be Adihh shonkora
>Never debate a single Buddhist in life
>Defeated by a literal Chandala(later cope as Shiva)
>Plagarize everything from Buddhism
>Refuted & labelled by fellow brahmin scholars Ramanuja,Bhaskara as Crypto-Buddhist
>Get revered by Quora Bromj33ts for propaganda