All about BUDDHISM.

[diehard96]

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considering sa previous posts, mejo OT ning ako. pero mangutana lang ko. tinuod ba nga human lang gyud gi panganak si siddhartha gautama naka lakaw dayun sya. naa pa gyud koy nabasahan nga nga sa iyang tinumban mi-bloom dayun ang lotus flowers. tinuod ba ning mga storyaha?

[gargoyle]

i'm not buddhist but i like its teachings...i read a lot about it from a blog of Forest Wisdom, a compassionate and introspective bloke...i am an avid reader of his inspiring and calming wisdom...
check out his blog--you can read and watch buddha's life story here--:
Forest Wisdom

no more updates i wonder:
Forest Wisdom

waiting for updates:
Buddha Space

THE PROUD BEETLE IN A LUMP OF COW DUNG

"There once was a beetle which came upon a lump of cow dung. He worked himself into it and liking what he saw, he invited his friends to join him in building a city in it. After working feverishly for a few days they built a magnificent `city´ in the dung and feeling very proud of their achievement they decided to elect the first beetle as their king. Now to honour their new `king´ they organised a grand parade through their `city´.
While these impressive proceedings were taking place, An elephant happened to pass by and seeing the lump of cow dung he lifted his foot to avoid stepping on it. The king beetle saw the elephant and angrily shouted at the huge beast. `Hey you! Don´t you have any respect for royalty? Don´t you know it is rude to lift your leg over my majestic head? Apologies at once or I´ll have you punished.´ The elephant looked down and said, `Your most gracious majesty, I humbly crave your pardon.´ Thus saying he knelt down on the lump of cow dung and crushed king, city, citizens and pride in one act of obeisance."

excerpt from:
Ven. K Sri Dhammananda

[regnauld]

i'm not buddhist but i like its teachings...i read a lot about it from a blog of Forest Wisdom, a compassionate and introspective bloke...i am an avid reader of his inspiring and calming wisdom...
check out his blog--you can read and watch buddha's life story here--:
Forest Wisdom

no more updates i wonder:
Forest Wisdom

waiting for updates:
Buddha Space

THE PROUD BEETLE IN A LUMP OF COW DUNG

"There once was a beetle which came upon a lump of cow dung. He worked himself into it and liking what he saw, he invited his friends to join him in building a city in it. After working feverishly for a few days they built a magnificent `city´ in the dung and feeling very proud of their achievement they decided to elect the first beetle as their king. Now to honour their new `king´ they organised a grand parade through their `city´.
While these impressive proceedings were taking place, An elephant happened to pass by and seeing the lump of cow dung he lifted his foot to avoid stepping on it. The king beetle saw the elephant and angrily shouted at the huge beast. `Hey you! Don´t you have any respect for royalty? Don´t you know it is rude to lift your leg over my majestic head? Apologies at once or I´ll have you punished.´ The elephant looked down and said, `Your most gracious majesty, I humbly crave your pardon.´ Thus saying he knelt down on the lump of cow dung and crushed king, city, citizens and pride in one act of obeisance."

excerpt from:
Ven. K Sri Dhammananda

Very nice bro! I hope the BIBLE FANATICS will learn from this enlightening post!

[bungot25]

i believe buddhism is a false religion....no need to refute this because its all false teachings...

[bluedes]

i believe buddhism is a false religion....no need to refute this because its all false teachings...

mao jud! false na lage mo tanan.. yaw na mo palag..

[regnauld]

i believe buddhism is a false religion....no need to refute this because its all false teachings...

Yes its false according to your belief!

[gargoyle]

i don't want to argue on the truthfulness of buddhism nor contend on the falsity of other religions...
this is all i can say:

THE LOST SON

"A young widower, who loved his five year old son very much, was away on business when bandits came who burned down the whole village and took his son away. When the man returned, he saw the ruins and panicked. The took the burnt corpse of an infant to be his son and cried uncontrollably. He organised a cremation ceremony, collected the ashes and put them in a beautiful little bag which he always kept with him.
Soon afterwards, his real son escaped from the bandits and found his way home. He arrived at his father's new cottage at midnight and knocked at the door. The father, still grieving asked: "Who is it?" The child answered, it is me papa, open the door!" But in his agitated state of mind, convinced his son was dead, the father thought that some young boy was making fun of him. He shouted: "Go away" and continued to cry. After some time, the child left.
Father and son never saw each other again."
After this story, the Buddha said: "Sometime, somewhere, you take something to be the truth. If you cling to it so much, even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it."

[flying fish]

i don't want to argue on the truthfulness of buddhism nor contend on the falsity of other religion...
this is all i can say:

THE LOST SON

"A young widower, who loved his five year old son very much, was away on business when bandits came who burned down the whole village and took his son away. When the man returned, he saw the ruins and panicked. The took the burnt corpse of an infant to be his son and cried uncontrollably. He organised a cremation ceremony, collected the ashes and put them in a beautiful little bag which he always kept with him.
Soon afterwards, his real son escaped from the bandits and found his way home. He arrived at his father's new cottage at midnight and knocked at the door. The father, still grieving asked: "Who is it?" The child answered, it is me papa, open the door!" But in his agitated state of mind, convinced his son was dead, the father thought that some young boy was making fun of him. He shouted: "Go away" and continued to cry. After some time, the child left.
Father and son never saw each other again."
After this story, the Buddha said: "Sometime, somewhere, you take something to be the truth. If you cling to it so much, even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it."

VERY NICE gargoyle,

indeed to some extent we are all like the "lost son" in that storey, its when we identify our sense of being w/ ideas, w/ scriptures, w/ knowledge that we lost sight of its significance, its taste, its meaning & purpose, vanity creeps in, blinded by its own finger pointing self righteous attitude, holier than thou,
its the abiltiy to be compassionate w/ other people w/o discrimination that places buddhism at a different pedestal,

[SioDenz]

i don't want to argue on the truthfulness of buddhism nor contend on the falsity of other religions...
this is all i can say:

THE LOST SON

"A young widower, who loved his five year old son very much, was away on business when bandits came who burned down the whole village and took his son away. When the man returned, he saw the ruins and panicked. The took the burnt corpse of an infant to be his son and cried uncontrollably. He organised a cremation ceremony, collected the ashes and put them in a beautiful little bag which he always kept with him.
Soon afterwards, his real son escaped from the bandits and found his way home. He arrived at his father's new cottage at midnight and knocked at the door. The father, still grieving asked: "Who is it?" The child answered, it is me papa, open the door!" But in his agitated state of mind, convinced his son was dead, the father thought that some young boy was making fun of him. He shouted: "Go away" and continued to cry. After some time, the child left.
Father and son never saw each other again."
After this story, the Buddha said: "Sometime, somewhere, you take something to be the truth. If you cling to it so much, even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it."

Naa man ni sa bibliya, lahi lan pagka istorya... Nindot lan ni pagka han-ay pero SEM-SEM ra ghapon

[joshua259]

i believe buddhism is a false religion....no need to refute this because its all false teachings...

it's really up to you bro if asa ka mo to-u. like christians pwede ni true, pwede sad ma false... muslims pwede sad true, pwede sad false... no one is absolute...