4 Key Characteristics about Buddhism
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2025
- From the conversations the Buddha had with his followers we are able to learn some important aspects about Buddhism and the reason why the Buddha taught what he did. In this video I introduce some sutras that highlight four key characteristics about the Buddha's teachings. In particular this video investigates whether blind faith is the order of the day in Buddhism or whether there is room for logical analysis and personal investigation, whether we need to expand our theoretical knowledge before we begin any sort of practice, and whether Buddhism is something that we should or shouldn't become attached to.
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Suttas used in this video:
"Simsapa Sutta: The Simsapa Leaves" (SN 56.31), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, 10 February 2012, www.accesstoins... . Retrieved on 17 July 2013.
"The Taste of Freedom", by Bhikkhu Bodhi. Access to Insight, 5 June 2010, www.accesstoins... . Retrieved on 17 July 2013.
"Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta: The Shorter Instructions to Malunkya" (MN 63), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, 12 February 2012, www.accesstoins... . Retrieved on 17 July 2013.
"Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta: The Greater Craving-Destruction Discourse" (MN 38), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, 1 December 2012, www.accesstoins... . Retrieved on 19 July 2013.
"The Discourse on the Snake Simile: Alagaddupama Sutta (MN 22)", translated from the Pali, with an Introduction and Notes by Nyanaponika Thera. Access to Insight, 1 December 2012, www.accesstoins... . Retrieved on 19 July 2013.
I got deeply into Buddhism a couple years back and made great advances before losing my way getting sidetracked obsessed with conspiracy theory etc found on here... Im trying to reaffirm what i learned and remembered your videos being of great help and now revisiting. So easy to grasp for the beginner/layperson i will spend a lot of time letting it all sink in again. Thank you once again, namaste
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I plan to make a video on Buddhism and vegetarianism in the coming months. :) The short answer to this is that the Buddha never said we had to become vegetarian, but many people would say that to live a life of non-violence and compassion would necessitate one to be vegetarian. I'm not completely vegetarian. 85% of my meals are veg but I would say that I am aspiring to be 100% veg again one day.
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Brilliant video from Mindah-Lee-Kumar. Buddhism worked for me. Strangely enough I combined it with a Western Teaching known as Rudolf Steiners Anthroposophy.(Since 1966) But I learnt Vipassana Meditation in 1980 at a Theravada Buddhist Temple in London UK. And I stuck with the Teaching, And I crossed over. Wow!
Thanks for your explanations. I 'm not a buddhist but I understand that many of Buddha's teachings can help a lot!
Very helpful. Love listening to dharma and repeating to remember! I shared it on Facebook. People need to know that this is not a religion to be attached to...but a raft to. help us cross to the other shore. Thank you!!
Love the reminder that I don't have to know everything to get started.
I heard if we eat vegetables only ,we become more pure and we can do easier meditation and easier keep us from any bad thoughts . Vegetables have higher vibration . I hope you understand it :-) Thanks the video !
I love the way you explain the teachings.🙏🥰 Very helpful, 🙏 thank you 😊.
I absolutely love your videos. I look forward to the next one. But I'm so happy to push replay. I thoroughly love your teaching style.Namaste 😄
You have a very clear way of delivering the teachings, just wanted to say thank you
I just would like to say I just.found your. Videos today and they was very.helpful they have helped me, to understand Buddhism in greater understanding.and I look forward to watching more of the videos.I live in Kansas miles away from a temple so I have yet to experience that, but do look to that day.but I would like t:o say thank you for the time you put into makeing: the videos its been a great help thank you
I really love your videos. So much is being explained in such a way that is easy to grasp. Thank you.
hi mindah :) i just wanted to write toyou that this was one of the most beautiful videos i have seen of you. i love the stories about buddha, i dont know much about it, but i enjoy it somuch...i hope you tellmore of those stories :) take care and thank you foryour videos
I miss your teachings. They have helped me so much. Your explanation is so clear an concise. Please do more
Thank you Mindah, for making this video. Have a beautiful day. :)
Thanks, it’s refreshing to know we don’t need to know everything 🙏
thanks very much for showing BUDDHISM though
Your teaching are understandable and presented with love . Thank you
Thank you for making every think so easy to understand
I really enjoyed this one. Thanks Mindah!
4 key and concise characteristics of Buddhism with some extra bonus suttas that make them very straightforward the way they were presented! :)
Nice work. A question: Why seek happiness at all? Isn't the desire to lessen suffering and promote happiness just another attachment? Aren't happiness and suffering both impermanent and fundamentally empty?
I want you to be happy and healthy and enlightened and to live a life of ease and compassion. Thank you for this gift.
I have a really good question please answer. At my prime meditation levels I experienced amazing peace and spiritual heightening. It was simply amazing. I have been working to get back there. I'm wondering if you could explain the middle ground of enlightenment. I don't feel like I was fully enlightened but I was very well within the vicinity.
Thank you for this informative video
keep up the good work, your videos are excellent!
Thanks Mindah. As usual your videos are great both with their content and presentation.
The Buddha is not a god, he is not omniscient nor infallible. He is the founder; the one who founded its basic theory (The Buddhist theory or the Four Noble Truths). Buddhism should be a living religion; not bound by tradition and continuously reforming itself and expanding its horizons.
Thank you, and I do look forward to viewing more of your future videos they are very helpful. :)
Are you a vegetarian? Is it necessary to be one as a Buddhist? If you are, how long have you been one? Thank you for this very professional and informative video.
very helpful indeed thank you so much. . namaste
Thanks so much...your videos are really helpful. :)
Very nice video
Really informative
Thank you! I really enjoyed "the Raft" from the Alagaddupama Sutra!
Very useful indeed
Great Video Mindah!
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Bouddhism seems to work! :P
Very nice...
Hello Mindah-Lee.
how important it to have a teacher or go to temples when you are a beginner in buddhism?
Thank you
Awesome
Is it possible to be a Confucius Scholar and a Buddhist at the same time, or do they conflict as in one being non spiritual. They seem to both have the same core truths. Also I'm confused about pure land in Chan. Is not pureland the here and now. That we should make the most of to do good? Though other Scholars have told me it is a heaven. I've found your teaching very clear, as it is sometimes hard to understand some Masters. Curious also of time spent in Temple life. The thought of taking the vows has circled in my mind for awhile now. The fear of getting home sick or , being above the age. Shoalin I see bright faces warmth ,energy in eyes and kindness. Though I've heard life at Temple is hard and very strict. What you have said here helps with some of the fears. I see this same energy among the Monks & Nuns when his Holiness The Dalai Lama speaks.Do you have to know sanskrit to enter into Temple life.
Wow sister well done
Sadhu sadhu sadhu ❤
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I observe there is no reference to GOD or ATMAN (SOUL) in Buddhist philosophy. Please inform if I am right. Is there also no concept of rebirth?
Mmm , better to see teachers as facilitators rather than authorities.
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Where are you now dear?
Read this 》 Béla Balogh : Ultimate Reality. Its a universal book for who want understand Christianity , Buddhism or the essence of any religion.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
In recent times, I have become convinced that to be expected to follow a religion blindly ie Christianity for instance, where you are required to have "faith", because otherwise the dogma false flat, is something only the Devil would require of His followers. And no, I don't believe in the Devil or God. Just saying that surely God would require no need to follow Him blindly with the support of faith. On the other hand, of late I am finding that the teachings of the Buddha come across as humane, logical and offers peace within within my own mind and that is a very attractive thing to one's own spirituality.
Shadu Shadu Shadu
The Founder of Dhamma.
Don't forget birth place of Buddha. Buddha was born in Nepal
Do Buddhism followers believe in god ?
Oh ok ty 😃
In the beginning, he who knows everything is hopelessly confused.
I don't know what happiness is. Maybe you should let your audience know what happiness is. Maybe, like me, they don't know what it is aside from being a word.
Your beautiful inside an out
You left Buddhism??...
Looking forward to retirement