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Excellent video, friend. The First sermon is the most important of the Buddha's teachings, so any extra shared knowledge on it is highly appreciated. As Ven. Sariputta said like any other animal's footprint can fit inside the footprint of an elephant, all of the other teachings of the Buddha can fit within the Four Noble Truths.
Excellent video Dough. You're really one of the best persons on this platform. Your videos always provide really good informations about early and historical budhism . Keep up the great work.
One correction: The five ascetics did not "come back" to the Buddha. The Buddha deliberately sought them out as students after learning that his first two choices, Āḷāra Kālāma and Uddaka, were dead.
Thanks for another great video Doug. The four tasks really resonates, K. R. Norman has come up in my readings, specifically Stephen Batchelor. I am going to look into K. R. Norman, any recommendations?
There's a link to the KR Norman paper I mentioned in the show notes, that's one place to begin, but I think pretty much anything he wrote is going to be worth reading and digesting.
I don't see a big issue. These first were semiprivate sharings or studio sessions. The Dhammacakkapavatana sutta is the first single off the first album.
Daoism also uses the wheel metaphor for an ideal kingdom, in which the monarch is represented by the empty hub that gets filled with the Dao and the ministers are represented by the spokes - the idea being that ministers have identities that enable them to perform their duties, whereas the monarch's duty is to be an egoless sage. This emptiness of the monarch contributed to quasi-anarchist tendencies in Daoism, which provided a counter-point to the conservative, centralized hierarchy of Confucianism (which Xi Jinping follows). Similar with antinomian/heterodox Hindu lineages such as the Nāths that reject the hereditary caste system in favor of more egalitarian social arrangements, or the Sikh tradition of treating each Sikh as a king or queen. Closer to democratic socialism than to feudalism.
We're missing a certain historical understanding of the word "hinayana" since it's a very critical term. This is a reference to the Buddhists who rejected Mahayana teachings. This does not apply to Theravada Buddhists. Theravada came later after adopting parts of Mahayana and at the very least accepting Mahayana practice of others as Dharma. Only a Buddhist who is hostile to Mahayana teachings would be properly termed "hinayana". And even then we should be aware it's still rude. It's a way of restarting a lot of old arguments. I'd love to help you guys out and translate it as something like "basic vehicle". Unfortunately that's ahistorical. The word is a record of a bit of Buddhist messiness we should probably be more reflective about.
We are analizing the sermon of an ascetic Who has gone years of practice, renunciations, path following and we, Who do not share these experiences are judging his teaching output, first teaching of a path that is still been followed by innumerable beings, in many ways... 😅 It seems we are not giving due credit to Gotama Wondrous Enlightment...
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Excellent video, friend. The First sermon is the most important of the Buddha's teachings, so any extra shared knowledge on it is highly appreciated. As Ven. Sariputta said like any other animal's footprint can fit inside the footprint of an elephant, all of the other teachings of the Buddha can fit within the Four Noble Truths.
Excellent video Dough. You're really one of the best persons on this platform. Your videos always provide really good informations about early and historical budhism . Keep up the great work.
My pleasure!
In India we celebrated 68th dhamma chakka pavattan day and Asoka vijaya dashami
Thanks Doug
One correction: The five ascetics did not "come back" to the Buddha. The Buddha deliberately sought them out as students after learning that his first two choices, Āḷāra Kālāma and Uddaka, were dead.
Yes good point! 🙏
Thanks for another great video Doug. The four tasks really resonates, K. R. Norman has come up in my readings, specifically Stephen Batchelor. I am going to look into K. R. Norman, any recommendations?
There's a link to the KR Norman paper I mentioned in the show notes, that's one place to begin, but I think pretty much anything he wrote is going to be worth reading and digesting.
Thanks for the video, Doug, I love the shirt you've got on !
Thanks! 😄
Thank you!
Very nice shirt.
Oh, and the video is excellent, as usually in your casa :)
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Thanks again Doug!
On another note, do you age?!?😂 Ive been watching all your older videos from 6 or so years ago and you look exactly the same!
sabbe sankhara anicca ... all compound things change (and age!) 😄😄
@@DougsDharma Well you're doing it slower than most!😂💮
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I don't see a big issue. These first were semiprivate sharings or studio sessions. The Dhammacakkapavatana sutta is the first single off the first album.
Ha! Good metaphor! 😄
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Or maybe the first greatest hits album?
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Daoism also uses the wheel metaphor for an ideal kingdom, in which the monarch is represented by the empty hub that gets filled with the Dao and the ministers are represented by the spokes - the idea being that ministers have identities that enable them to perform their duties, whereas the monarch's duty is to be an egoless sage. This emptiness of the monarch contributed to quasi-anarchist tendencies in Daoism, which provided a counter-point to the conservative, centralized hierarchy of Confucianism (which Xi Jinping follows). Similar with antinomian/heterodox Hindu lineages such as the Nāths that reject the hereditary caste system in favor of more egalitarian social arrangements, or the Sikh tradition of treating each Sikh as a king or queen. Closer to democratic socialism than to feudalism.
Interesting, thanks!
Buddha pulls wheelies ;-)
I doubt Buddha ever spoke of Mara! Its precisely the kind of supernatural mumbo jumbo he wanted to end.
Then there's the Wheel of Fortune...
True ... !
We're missing a certain historical understanding of the word "hinayana" since it's a very critical term. This is a reference to the Buddhists who rejected Mahayana teachings. This does not apply to Theravada Buddhists. Theravada came later after adopting parts of Mahayana and at the very least accepting Mahayana practice of others as Dharma.
Only a Buddhist who is hostile to Mahayana teachings would be properly termed "hinayana". And even then we should be aware it's still rude. It's a way of restarting a lot of old arguments. I'd love to help you guys out and translate it as something like "basic vehicle". Unfortunately that's ahistorical. The word is a record of a bit of Buddhist messiness we should probably be more reflective about.
We are analizing the sermon of an ascetic Who has gone years of practice, renunciations, path following and we, Who do not share these experiences are judging his teaching output, first teaching of a path that is still been followed by innumerable beings, in many ways... 😅 It seems we are not giving due credit to Gotama Wondrous Enlightment...
The Dharma turns the other way around.