What is the Buddha's discourse on cosmology
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Hi Eternal.
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The Budda's discourse on cosmology is awesome, considering it was spoken by him 2500 years ago, without telescope and technology was primitive then, the pple then believed the earth was squared and could not possibly fathom it was round.
The discourse on cosmology was like, sands in the ganges river, representing xiao jian si jie. -
anyone knows about the discourse on cosmology by the Buddha?
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http://online.sfsu.edu/%7Erone/Buddhism/BuddhistDict/BDT.html
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Chiliocosm, tri-sahasra-mah¨¡-sahasra-loka-dh¨¡tu
Èýǧ´óǧÊÀ½ç tri-sahasra-mah¨¡-sahasra-loka-dh¨¡tu, a great chiliocosm; Èýǧ; Èýǧ½ç, ÈýǧÊÀ½ç. Mt. Sumeru and its seven surrounding continents, eight seas and ring of iron mountains form one small world; 1, 000 of these form a small chiliocosm �¡Ç§ÊÀ½ç; 1, 000 of these small chiliocosms form a medium chiliocosm Ö�ǧÊÀ½ç; a thousand of these form a great chiliocosm ´óǧÊÀ½ç, which thus consists of 1, 000, 000, 000 small worlds. The Èýǧ indicates the above three kinds of thousands, therefore Èýǧ´óǧÊÀ½ç is the same as ´óǧÊÀ½ç, which is one Buddha-world.
http://www.hm.tyg.jp/~acmuller/soothill/soothill-hodous.html
A DICTIONARY OF CHINESE-BUDDHIST TERMS
And in "each" Chiliocosm, there's just 1 realm of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception (N'evasanna Nasannayatanabhumi), 1000 realm of Nothingness (Akincanayatanabhumi), 1000,000 realm of Infinite Consciousness (Vinnanacayatanabhumi)' & 1000,000,000 realm of Infinite Space (Akasanacayatanabhumi). Thus existence is not still but always in motion.
And also small chiliocosms obit around medium chiliocosms, while medium chiliocosm obit around great chiliocosm, while great chiliocosms obit around around Avatamsaka!
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There're 4 earth planets within our chiliocosm(Èýǧ´óǧÊÀ½ç tri-sahasra-mah¨¡-sahasra-loka-dh¨¡tu), suitable for 'human' that is.
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The Realm of Human Beings
Human beings of various kinds live on the four continents which surround Mt. Sumeru. The southern continent is called Jambudvipa, which is the name of a mythical rose-apple tree that is supposed to grow there. Jambudvipa is shaped like the Indian sub-continent and has two small islands off the tip, one of which corresponds to Sri Lanka. Jambudvipa, of course, corresponds to India which was the entire known world to those who created the Mt. Sumeru cosmology.
West of Mt. Sumeru is the continent called Aparagodaniya. Here, the inhabitants herd cattle and live very comfortable lives in this rich land. This continent is circular and also has two islands.
East of Mt. Sumeru is the continent called Purvavideha. The people who live here are very gentle, refined, and have a noble bearing. This continent is shaped like a half moon and has two islands.
North of Mt. Sumeru is the continent called Uttarakuru. The people here are extremely virtuous and live for a thousand years. This continent is very much like the Garden of Eden in that there is no crime, or disease, or violence and food is easily attainable without work. It is shaped like a square and has two islands.
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Within our chiliocosm, there are 1 Billion sun-systems (solar systems). Out of these, 4 planets have man living on it. In the future, these 4 planets (including ours) will be united under a universal wheel-turning king. He will have a golden flying vehicle that can fly him to any planet within 1 day's time. Lifespan at that time will be uncountable (84000 = uncountable), their height will be very very high, our height is lower than their knees. There will be no diseases, war, famine, crimes, etc etc... cities are large in population and close to each other, within 1 dharma discourse by Maitreya Buddha, more than 9 billion people attain enlightenment/liberation (which is only possible through modern technology). There will be 3 such discourses.
From my memory, Buddha also described galaxies as 'spiralling systems' or something around that line... or 'wheel system'.
Point is, there are definitely extra terrestrials.
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ETs is one topic that is really interesting.
A while back I have a dream/projection which I think is a glimpse of an alien-human hybrid species.
This 'dream' or astral projection was like a 'Powerpoint' presentation.
Slide One: In my mind screen, it reads something like this: The human of the future.
Slide Two: The wording corrects itself to mean something like this: The future human is already present.
I was presented with 3 'future humans'. A young boy, a woman and an old man.
Physically, they look Â…eh.. cute, but not in the handsome or pretty sense. They all have nice smooth and fair complexion, very large eyes but the nose is rather flat, the head is round and very large. All of them seem very happy. One thing about them is that they do not age like we do... they have no wrinkle even for the old man... I know he is old because he feels old.
Apparently there are information on an alien/earth-human specie... call Essasani. What I have viewed then might be them. -
Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
i remember clearly as i translated before from Master Shen Kai's book, the height of them is 160 feets!
their height will be very very high, our height is lower than their knees.[/b]
and all the lands/islands will be combine into One Big piece, like we used to be billion years ago, before seperating into different continents. can even relate to how our mind become dual/selfish and effect the earth.
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Hmm...you also can see them too?Originally posted by longchen:ETs is one topic that is really interesting.
A while back I have a dream/projection which I think is a glimpse of an alien-human hybrid species.
This 'dream' or astral projection was like a 'Powerpoint' presentation.
Slide One: In my mind screen, it reads something like this: The human of the future.
Slide Two: The wording corrects itself to mean something like this: The future human is already present.
I was presented with 3 'future humans'. A young boy, a woman and an old man.
Physically, they look Â…eh.. cute, but not in the handsome or pretty sense. They all have nice smooth and fair complexion, very large eyes but the nose is rather flat, the head is round and very large. All of them seem very happy. One thing about them is that they do not age like we do... they have no wrinkle even for the old man... I know he is old because he feels old.
Apparently there are information on an alien/earth-human specie... call Essasani. What I have viewed then might be them.
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You can see them also?Originally posted by maggot:Hmm...you also can see them too?
Occasionally I have visions/dreams which tells me certain things... but nowadays I got very little of these visions/dreams....
My psychic sense is waning
But it seems to be replaced by another form of knowing that is without visions/images... feelings with informations. -
There are a lot of other beings
But be prepared that they don't look like the usually kinds of stuffs you see everyday nor those stuffs from movies
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hmmm didn't know that the buddha knew about planets and the stars.Originally posted by sinweiy:http://online.sfsu.edu/%7Erone/Buddhism/BuddhistDict/BDT.html
check "time "
and
Chiliocosm, tri-sahasra-mah¨¡-sahasra-loka-dh¨¡tu
Èýǧ´óǧÊÀ½ç tri-sahasra-mah¨¡-sahasra-loka-dh¨¡tu, a great chiliocosm; Èýǧ; Èýǧ½ç, ÈýǧÊÀ½ç. Mt. Sumeru and its seven surrounding continents, eight seas and ring of iron mountains form one small world; 1, 000 of these form a small chiliocosm �¡Ç§ÊÀ½ç; 1, 000 of these small chiliocosms form a medium chiliocosm Ö�ǧÊÀ½ç; a thousand of these form a great chiliocosm ´óǧÊÀ½ç, which thus consists of 1, 000, 000, 000 small worlds. The Èýǧ indicates the above three kinds of thousands, therefore Èýǧ´óǧÊÀ½ç is the same as ´óǧÊÀ½ç, which is one Buddha-world.
http://www.hm.tyg.jp/~acmuller/soothill/soothill-hodous.html
A DICTIONARY OF CHINESE-BUDDHIST TERMS
And in "each" Chiliocosm, there's just 1 realm of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception (N'evasanna Nasannayatanabhumi), 1000 realm of Nothingness (Akincanayatanabhumi), 1000,000 realm of Infinite Consciousness (Vinnanacayatanabhumi)' & 1000,000,000 realm of Infinite Space (Akasanacayatanabhumi). Thus existence is not still but always in motion.
And also small chiliocosms obit around medium chiliocosms, while medium chiliocosm obit around great chiliocosm, while great chiliocosms obit around around Avatamsaka!
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feelings with informations is no good. i heard from my master this is wandering thoughts. it's not just your prob, it's most psychic abilities, up to certain age, the power slowing worn off due to wandering thoughts of defilement, ie no more pure already.Originally posted by longchen:You can see them also?
Occasionally I have visions/dreams which tells me certain things... but nowadays I got very little of these visions/dreams....
My psychic sense is waning But it seems to be replaced by another form of knowing that is without visions/images... feelings with informations.
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I think you got it all wrong.Originally posted by sinweiy:feelings with informations is no good. i heard from my master this is wandering thoughts. it's not just your prob, it's most psychic abilities, up to certain age, the power slowing worn off due to wandering thoughts of defilement, ie no more pure already.
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The psychic sense is waning because I am no longer very interested in it. In the past, I use psychic visions to gather informations... because I was curious and was more egoistic... Now, this stuffs no longer interest me...so i no longer pay much attention to them... there are just another form of pride.
The problem with psychic stuffs is that it makes a person feels special if the ego/pride is still strong and thus will deviate one from the spiritual path. Actually, most pyschic vision are simply caused by the awakening of the 3rd eye chakra... nothing special. .. The opening of the 3rd eye is just a stage along the spiritual path... My 3rd eye chakra is still open but it has less vision because my state is more calm now.
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Sent you a PM.. pls check. \Originally posted by longchen:I think you got it all wrong.
The psychic sense is waning because I am no longer very interested in it. In the past, I use psychic visions to gather informations... because I was curious and was more egoistic... Now, this stuffs no longer interest me...so i no longer pay much attention to them... there are just another form of pride.
The problem with psychic stuffs is that it makes a person feels special if the ego/pride is still strong and thus will deviate one from the spiritual path. Actually, most pyschic vision are simply caused by the awakening of the 3rd eye chakra... nothing special. .. The opening of the 3rd eye is just a stage along the spiritual path... My 3rd eye chakra is still open but it has less vision because my state is more calm now.
For one with an awaken 3rd eye chakra... when they close their eyes... they will see a ball of bright light. -
okay, so that's your so called psychic. i see. i thought it's like miracle power or stuff. i think u have make good use of the new info of wisdom. i heard of your kind of skill/ability of 'retrieving information' by Master Xuan Hua's commentry. we as buddhist cultivators also have this ability due to us having learnt "it" before in previous lifes. it's stored in a 'special space', where we can retrieve, hence that's how we get insights aside from Buddha/bodhisattvas' help.Originally posted by longchen:I think you got it all wrong.
The psychic sense is waning because I am no longer very interested in it. In the past, I use psychic visions to gather informations... because I was curious and was more egoistic... Now, this stuffs no longer interest me...so i no longer pay much attention to them... there are just another form of pride.
The problem with psychic stuffs is that it makes a person feels special if the ego/pride is still strong and thus will deviate one from the spiritual path. Actually, most pyschic vision are simply caused by the awakening of the 3rd eye chakra... nothing special. .. The opening of the 3rd eye is just a stage along the spiritual path... My 3rd eye chakra is still open but it has less vision because my state is more calm now.
For one with an awaken 3rd eye chakra... when they close their eyes... they will see a ball of bright light.
as from what i encounter/heard, people with psychic power(te yi gong nen) normally are strong when young as the mind is purer/innocent but when reach certain age, the power worn off, due to defilements(eg desire). but they din't make use of new info of wisdom like u do. i think in a way, not paying attention is a form of wandering thoughts, ie the attention wander off to other attention.
btw, can you predict future?
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He predicted the Tsunami in a way.. 1 month before it happened.Originally posted by sinweiy:okay, so that's your so called psychic. i see. i thought it's like miracle power or stuff. i think u have make good use of the new info of wisdom. i heard of your kind of skill/ability of 'retrieving information' by Master Xuan Hua's commentry. we as buddhist cultivators also have this ability due to us having learnt "it" before in previous lifes. it's stored in a 'special space', where we can retrieve, hence that's how we get insights aside from Buddha/bodhisattvas' help.
as from what i encounter/heard, people with psychic power(te yi gong nen) normally are strong when young as the mind is purer/innocent but when reach certain age, the power worn off, due to defilements(eg desire). but they din't make use of new info of wisdom like u do. i think in a way, not paying attention is a form of wandering thoughts, ie the attention wander off to other attention.
btw, can you predict future?
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Hi Eternal Now,Originally posted by An Eternal Now:He predicted the Tsunami in a way.. 1 month before it happened.
About your request, I meditated just now. I didn't see anything at all... and move straight into the peace space beyond the 'vision space.' Sorry... maybe.. not meant for me to know.
Hi Sinweiy,
I owe much to Buddhist meditation
About the future... it is not fixed but exist as potential. Planet-wise, the entire planet is undergoing changes. We are at the end of an era and entering a new one. The Mayan calender predicted that our era ends in 2012... This is not the end of the world but marks a new more advanced civilisation after that. And the humans of the future will live longer, and be disease free and are much more spiritually-aware. Physically, they may even be genetically different from our current race. Accordng to dreams, we must upgrade our bodies now and in the future, humans will have additional chakras that performs other functions.
But before that happens, the planet will be clearing its messes... resulting in all the disaster that is happening now.
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i read before regarding 2012, Mayan calender, genetically different etcs, 2 years ago. did you read it also from websites?Originally posted by longchen:Hi Eternal Now,
About your request, I meditated just now. I didn't see anything at all... and move straight into the peace space beyond the 'vision space.' Sorry... maybe.. not meant for me to know.
Hi Sinweiy,
I owe much to Buddhist meditation
About the future... it is not fixed but exist as potential. Planet-wise, the entire planet is undergoing changes. We are at the end of an era and entering a new one. The Mayan calender predicted that our era ends in 2012... This is not the end of the world but marks a new more advanced civilisation after that. And the humans of the future will live longer, and be disease free and are much more spiritually-aware. Physically, they may even be genetically different from our current race. Accordng to dreams, we must upgrade our bodies now and in the future, humans will have additional chakras that performs other functions.
But before that happens, the planet will be clearing its messes... resulting in all the disaster that is happening now.
If I am not wrong, the Kalachakra prophecy is quite similar as well.
never heard of Kalachakra prophecy though. what's it about?
my guru mention about Atlantis rising from the sea and part of United State or/and Europe will sink. u know the detail?
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The Mayan prophecy and the genetic changes I read from the website.Originally posted by sinweiy:i read before regarding 2012, Mayan calender, genetically different etcs, 2 years ago. did you read it also from websites?
never heard of Kalachakra prophecy though. what's it about?
my guru mention about Atlantis rising from the sea and part of United State or/and Europe will sink. u know the detail?
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But my dreams gave some details of the new chakra systems... According at the time of the dream, there were 47 humans worldwide that actually tested 2 new chakras above their shoulder blades... these chakras supposed can perform the function of distant healing... Very interesting dream... with my father in the dream arranging Lego-like blocks to explain the new chakra structure...and how to use them BTW.. 'Father' in dream symbolise 'the Source'
Another dream talks about the need to upgrade our bodies now and about 1700 years later another transition. I can verify this dream because I actually physically lost about 5-10 kg and have changed my diet preferences after that.
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Erm, have you stopped losing weight already or still continually losing weight? If you keep losing weight I think better see a doctor
Another dream talks about the need to upgrade our bodies now and about 1700 years later another transition. I can verify this dream because I actually physically lost about 5-10 kg and have changed my diet preferences after that.
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never heard of Kalachakra prophecy though. what's it about?
Kalachakra prophecy states that people from Shambhala (MSK mentioned this place before) will one day fight the evil people who shall rule the world like Hitler. Later, the wheel-turning-king shall rule the whole Earth and a golden age will last for 1000/1800 years, before the dharma finally disappears from Earth.
More info: http://kalachakranet.org/kalachakra_tantra_history.html
And who are the bad guys? - very interesting article on http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=6393&st=20
read the article on Jul 23 2004, 02:07 AM.my guru mention about Atlantis rising from the sea and part of United State or/and Europe will sink. u know the detail?
Can tell us more?
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Stop already...Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Erm, have you stopped losing weight already or still continually losing weight? If you keep losing weight I think better see a doctor
In fact, i got worried myself and when to see the doctor and did a full medical checkup. Medical report... no problem. -
Oh I see... thats very goodOriginally posted by longchen:Stop already...
In fact, i got worried myself and when to see the doctor and did a full medical checkup. Medical report... no problem.
So what kind of diet change?