Amitabha and Pure Land
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Amitabha.
These pictures are from various PureLand communities. I like the pictures. I felt calm looking at these pictures too.
Thank you.Originally posted by Thusness:These pictures are beautiful. I felt calm. Thank you.
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interesting quote:
Introduction: Buddha Recitation Sessions
----Grand Master Hsuan Hua
Every winter, prior to the annual Chan winter session, the City hosts a Vigorous Buddha Recitation Session. As the ancient saying goes,
With Dhyana and Pure Land,
one is like a tiger with horns,
A teacher of humans in this life,
a Patriarch or Buddha in the next.
With Dhyana but not Pure Land,
nine out of ten go astray.
With Pure Land but not Dhyana,
ten thousand cultivate and ten thousand reach their goal.
http://www.advite.com/sf/assm/assm8.html
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do i have to pay for that?
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It's free on the Internet, you may have to get the antena/receiver for Satellite TV viewing.
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where do i get that?
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Hi Cenarious,
You can catch them online FREE via the Internet. I am not sure about the configuration for satellite viewing on TV, but I believe it should be the same receiver where you can purchase for all other Satellite programs. You do not have to pay for Satellite viewing, except for the purchase of the reciever/antenna (whatever they called it).
Hope this help.Originally posted by Cenarious:where do i get that? -
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Da Shi Zhi Pu Sa
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agreed.. especially first lineOriginally posted by sinweiy:
With Dhyana and Pure Land,
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http://www.amitabha-gallery.org
We are what we think.
All that we are
arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts
we make the world. -
Lankavatara sutra:
Shakyamuni, the Tathagata, while dwelling on Mount Lanka,
Prophesied to the assembly of monks that in Southern India
A Great Being named Nagarjuna would appear in the world
And destroy all the wrong views on 'being' and 'non-being',
Thus expounding the unsurpassed teaching of Mahayana;
He would reach the Stage of Joy and attain birth in the Land of Peace and Bliss.
He teaches that the difficult practices are toilsome like traveling by land,
And urges us to believe that the Easy Practice is pleasant like sailing on water.
When a thought of mindfulness of Amida's Original Vow arises,
At that instant one spontaneously enters the Stage of Assurance.
Repeating always the Name of the Tathagata,
One should seek to repay for one's indebtedness to his Great Compassion. ---(12) Nagarjuna (lines 49-60)
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