Goddess of Mercy

The Goddess of Mercy, originally uploaded by WayneMethod.

Goddess of Mercy

I am posting this from by friend WayneMethod site.

Please read more about the comments on this Greatest Compationate Buddhisvatha.

What Buddha Said About Universe??

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy, originally uploaded by hisglassworks.

Yesterday, in the morning I am reading the book:

"The Buddha's Explaination of The Universe!!"

Today, I found this News:

Galaxy Exposion 12.6Billions Light-Years Away!!


Just imagine Buddha is 2,560 years ahead of these news!!

He is our greatest Guru!!

What Is Life??

Still Shining, originally uploaded by CharlieBrown8989.

What Is Life??

In Gotama Buddha Words:


Just like the Dews On The Leaf In the Morning;

Just Like the Fogs In The Air....

FlowerWisdom

Summer Mid-Noon, originally uploaded by CharlieBrown8989.

The Reason Gotama Buddha chose Flower to teach about Buddhism is that:

Flower described the full nature of the lives phenomenal.

From Nothing

To Something

From Something

To Nothing!!

That is live's of all beings be it

Seeing

or

Unseeing!!

Birth - Growth - Decay - Death

Birth - Growth - Decay - Death, originally uploaded by CharlieBrown8989.

Birth

Growth

Decay

Death

is the 4 Noble Truth of Life!!

All Beings cannot escape these.

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Indra

Yangshuo, China, originally uploaded by derailleur.

Indra

The Name of the Jade Emperor In Dusitat ( 33th Heaven)

According to the Buddha:

Our Human earth is 200 years, Over in Dusitat there is 1 Day.....

Sukothai Buddha Statue

Sukothai, originally uploaded by h.neumeyer.

I have research into the Thai Buddism since 1980.

What I found is that Thai Buddha statue have lots of influence from India.

In fact the Chinese Version Buddha statue are fat then is symbolize wealth.

The Japanese Buddha statue are mainly influence by the Chinese craft.

After appreciating the Buddha statue arts in Various period s of Thai Buddism.

I am in the opinion that Sukothai Buddha Statue still is among the best Buddha Art after all.

Our Guru of Universes

Apc110400r, originally uploaded by pidge.

He is The Greatest of All...

He Told Us The Truth

The 4 Noble Truth!!

He Show Us The Way

The 8 Fold Path!!

He Said, By Following His Way.....

All of Us Would Become Buddha

& Dwell in Nirvana..........

Lotus Charater

full bloom lily, originally uploaded by beesee.

What Did Buddha Said About The

Excellence Characteristic of Lotus??

The More Muddy,

The More Dirty the Pond,

The Biggest Is The Lotus!!

Sleeping Meditation

sleeping buddha
Originally uploaded by fubuki.

What Sleeping Meditation??

Yes, That is part of the Buddha Teaching!!

You can:

Sit Meditation

Walk Meditation

Sleep Meditation

Most Importance Things is:

Mindfulness In Your Meditation.

Whatwever Position is just A physical body expression!!

Buddist Monks Robes

3 Buddist Monks
Originally uploaded by Swatt.

Do You Know About The Color of Monk's Robes??

I didn't know thet Meaning behind.

Till One Day, I was sleeping beside my late godfather who is the Chief Abbot of his Thai Wat.

He said; it means that difference color are difference Ranking.

Then I said.. Did Buddha said:

All Beings Are Equal??

He Knock My Head & said:-

All dressed in The Same Color, then How To Identify.....

So.. what is the Wisdom Gained??...Nothing...Nothing...Nothing..Back to Nothing.....Nirvana...Peace...Peace...Peace.....

Why Lotus Is The Symbol of Buddhism

Lotus Flower
Originally uploaded by h.neumeyer.

Lotus!!

Grow Out of Muddy Pond,

Yet Maintence It's

Clean

Clear

Firm

Righteous

Elegant

Beauty

etc...

Why Buddha Teach Us To Offer Flower?? 

Buddhist Songs In Mandarin - by Daniel Yeo

The following Buddhist Songs are by Yang Bao Sheng:

Adapted from:






This is a collection of Chinese Buddhist Songs. All files are in MP3 format - please right click on the links and choose "Save Target As.." to save them. If you have quality audio material to contribute to this section, please contact us and we will include them here.


BuddhaNet Audio: Chinese Buddhist Songs (by Daniel Yeo)

The Saying of The Buddha

The Link Below is I adapted from

Who can fail to be profoundly moved by the words of the Buddha?

In this series of delightfully illustrated stories (there are 8 of them), the Buddha teaches us on the importance of Spiritual Cultivation.

Find out what the Buddha say about the Independent Self, the necessity of holding proper beliefs! Why you won't get anywhere on the Spiritual Path unless you actually practice, and much much more......

Goddess of Mercy Chant - Guan Yin Chant

The following is the Mandarine Version of Guan Yin.

According to Gotama Buddha, After he ascented to Nirvana, the 2 Buddhisvathvas would be in the trillions....of Universes salvaging suffering beings would Be :

1. Guan Yin -- The Goddess of Mercy

2. Ti Chang -- The Mines of Earth

Where Guan Yin Vow that if there is a voice of Suffering she would be there to free them from suffering..

Where Ti Chang Vow that if the Hells are not distroyed He would never become Buddha!!

I would share with you all the story on these...

The Mantra is Romanised Pali for you to Chant.

Guan Yin Prayer

观音咒

奉请观音大悲咒， 救渡众生无尽期。
左手取来功德水， 右手提着杨柳枝。
头顶顶载牟尼仪， 心里诚念陀罗尼。

古佛再来观世音， 千手千眼陀罗尼。
赐我神通智圆满， 赐我行得善方便。
赐我速得富庶种， 赐我除去一切厄。
赐我了断诸苦难， 赐我速住无为舍。
赐我了脱生死业， 赐我觅得智慧根。
赐我速登般若船， 赐我力证涅磐真。

古佛再来观世音， 千手千眼陀罗尼。
有人念得观音咒， 一切灾殃尽消散。
弟子念得观音咒。 刀山劫煞尽自撤。
火海自息化莲池 ，冤家仇敌化善友。
官非伽仗得平伸， 是非邪秽永不侵。
一切诸魔皆降服， 饥俄贫穷化富足。
家眷和谐大和气， 身心康泰勤精进。
心想事成大欢喜， 金银财宝满盈盈。

古佛再来观世音， 千手千眼陀罗尼。
弟子念得观音咒， 地狱自化为净土。
修罗自悟自调伏， 饿鬼自填自饱满。
畜牲自得大智慧。

蓬莱山，西海岸， 普陀山，洛伽洞，
梵音洞，潮音洞， 不肯去，紫竹林，

五方五土观世音， 五湖四海观世音，
虚无飘缈观世音， 虚空藏中观世音，
小千世界观世音， 中千世界观世音，
大千世界观世音， 三千大千观世音，

速来授手，救苦救难， 人佛一心，

人离难， 难离身， 苦离心，

一切灾殃尽化尘。


揭帝，揭帝，
巴拉蜜佛陀揭帝，
巴拉蜜达摩揭帝，
巴拉蜜僧伽揭帝，
菩提萨哆呀。


Chedi, Chedi, Chedi,
Parami Buddho Chedi,
Parami Dhammo Chedi,
Parami Sangkho Chedi,
Buddhisvathvaya.

Arahan Samma SamBhuddho Bagava,
Buddham Bhagavadha Abiva Demiv,

Suvagato Bhagavadha Dhammo,
Dhammong Namacami,

Supati Panno Bhagavadho,
Saravaka Sangkho,

Sangang Namami.

Satu Satu Satu!!!!!!

The English Translation would be follow on my future posting

Today is the Luna Birthday of Goddess of Mercy. I am posting this picture of her here!!  

Red Traffic Light - Be Mindful Buddha is Present!!

Driving Meditation

When we do walking meditation, the point is not to get somewhere, but rather to practice, using walking as the object of our attention. Even when we do have to get somewhere and must drive to do so, there is an opportunity for practice. Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen master and poet, has written a number of gathas, or brief verses, for enhancing our mindfulness during everyday activities, even driving a car.

Before starting the car, I know where I am going. The car and I are one. If the car goes fast, I go fast.

If we are mindful when we start our car, we will know how to use it properly. When we are driving, we tend to think of arriving, and we sacrifice the journey for the sake of the arrival. But life is to be found in the present moment, not in the future. In fact, we may suffer more after we arrive at our destination.

If we have to talk of a destination, what about our final destination, the graveyard? We do not want to go in the direction of death; we want to go in the direction of life. But where is life? Life can be found only in the present moment. Therefore, each mile we drive, each step we take, has to bring us into the present moment. This is the practice of mindfulness.

When we see a red light or a stop sign, we can smile at it and thank it, because it is a bodhisattva helping us return to the present moment. The red light is a bell of mindfulness. We may have thought of it as an enemy, preventing us from achieving our goal. But now we know the red light is our friend, helping us resist rushing and calling us to return to the present moment where we can meet with life, joy and peace. Even if you are not the driver, you can help everyone in the car if you breathe and smile.

A number of years ago, I went to Canada to lead a retreat, and a friend took me across the city of Montreal. I noticed that every time a car stopped in front of me, I saw the sentence, "Je me souviens" ("I remember"), on the license plate. I did not know what they wanted to remember, perhaps their French-speaking origin, but it gave me an idea.

I told my friend, "I have a present for all of you here. Every time you see a car stop in front of you with the line 'Je me souviens,' you can see it as a bell of mindfulness helping you remember to breathe and smile. And you will have plenty of opportunities to breathe and smile while driving in Montreal."

My friend was delighted! He liked it so much that he shared the practice with more than 200 people in the retreat. Later, when he came to visit me in France, he told me that Paris was not a good place to practice driving, as there were no signs "Je me souviens." I told him that he could practice with red lights and stop signs.

After he left Plum Village and went back to Montreal, he wrote me a beautiful letter: "They, practicing in Paris was very easy. Not only did I practice with red lights and stop signs, but every time a car stopped in front of me, I saw the eyes of the Buddha blinking at me. I had to smile at those blinking eyes."

The next time you are caught in traffic, don't fight. It is useless to fight. If you sit back and smile to yourself, you will enjoy the present moment and make everyone in the car happy. The Buddha is there, because the Buddha can always be found in the present moment.

Practicing meditation is to return to the present moment in order to encounter the flower, the blue sky, the child, the brilliant red light

Alien Planets Show Themselves for First Time

Just over 2,56X years ago.. Buddha said in his "Eternal Life Sutra" Buddha have explained in detail about the endless number of stars & universe in the existence.

Buddha in his "Explanation of The Universe" said How the Universe were formed. & there are atleast 73 planes of existence in the whole great universe. Ther are bilions...billions.....billions of Universes.

In each plane the times & spaces are difference from the human plane. He use the Animals & insects as the example.

Well there are lots of things that Buddha touch on these topic. I will share with you all here.

Alien Planets Show Themselves for First Time
By DENNIS OVERBYE Published: March 23, 2005

Astronomers said yesterday that they, or at least their telescopes, had laid eyes for the first time on planets beyond the solar system.

Using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and careful timing, teams studying two planets were able to distinguish the glow of the planets' infrared radiation from the overwhelming glare of their parent stars. Both planets are so-called hot Jupiters, massive bodies circling their stars in tight, blowtorching orbits and probably unfit for the kind of life found on Earth.

Until now, astronomers could infer the existence and some properties of these and other so-called exoplanets only by indirect means. They said directly measuring light from the planets was a major step in the quest to understand what alien planets are made of, because different molecules in the atmosphere absorb infrared light in characteristic ways and allow scientists to compare these alien planets to those in the solar system. Ultimately, astronomers would like to know if Earth, with its ability to evolve and support life, is unique or common in the universe.

Dr. David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led one of the teams, said he was ecstatic when he first saw the data. "We've been hunting for this light for almost 10 years, ever since extrasolar planets were first discovered," Dr. Charbonneau said.

The Harvard-Smithsonian team and the other team, led by Dr. L. Drake Deming of the Goddard Space Flight Center, announced their results at a news conference at the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington. The Deming team's paper was published online yesterday by the journal Nature; the other team will publish its results in The Astrophysical Journal on June 20.

Dr. Geoffrey W. Marcy, a planet hunter at the University of California, Berkeley, called the results "the stuff of history books" and added, "With this result, we are closer to understanding our own human roots, chemically, among the stars."

Dr. Alan P. Boss, a planetary theorist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said in an e-mail message that the discoveries showed "that we are well along the way to combining astronomy and biology into the new science of astrobiology, with the ultimate goal being to search for life beyond Earth."

About 130 planets are known to orbit other stars, but until now they have all been detected indirectly, either by the wobble their gravity induced in the motions of their parent stars or by slight dips in the stars' light when their planets passed in front of them.

The planets whose discoveries were reported yesterday fall in the latter category, passing directly in front of their parent stars periodically and then behind them. The Goddard team's object, known as HD 209458b, was the first planet detected by the so-called transit method, back in 1999. It circles a star about 153 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, making a complete trip every 3.5 days. In 2001, Dr. Charbonneau used the Hubble Space Telescope to make spectroscopic measurements of this star while the planet was passing in front of it and found that sodium and hydrogen were present in the planet's atmosphere.

The other planet, known as TrES-1 after the telescope network that discovered it, the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, is about 500 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Discovered last year by a telescope only four inches in diameter, it circles its parent every three days.

In both cases the astronomers were able to use the special geometry of these planetary systems to tease out the faint light of each planet from its parent's glare, comparing measurements made while the planet and star were both visible and while the planet was hidden behind the star. It helped that the Spitzer telescope, launched in 2003, was built to study infrared radiation, which has a longer wavelength than visible light. Because they are so close to their stars, these planets were expected to be hot and therefore show up more easily at infrared wavelengths than in the visible light. While the stars outshine such giant planets by a factor of 10,000 or so in visible light, they are only about 400 times brighter in infrared.

When the astronomers put on their "infrared goggles," as Dr. Charbonneau put it, the planets popped into view. The Spitzer telescope registered a dip in light of about a quarter of 1 percent in each case when the planet went behind its star.

That dip was enough to allow the astronomers to take the temperature of these planets and confirm that they are hot, as predicted: about 1,450 degrees Fahrenheit for TrES-1 and about 1,570 degrees for HD 209458b.

Other results were more puzzling. The TrES-1 planet seems to be emitting less light at shorter infrared wavelengths than the models of such planets predict, Dr. Charbonneau said, perhaps because greater-than-expected amounts of carbon monoxide are absorbing those wavelengths.

But as Dr. Charbonneau said, theoretical predictions about extrasolar planets have turned out to be "nothing short of disastrous." The field, he said, is driven by data, and there has not been much of that until now.

Dr. Boss said the Spitzer telescope had been designed decades ago and was never intended to study extrasolar planets. He also said that NASA had a whole menu of "wonderful" planet-finding missions.

"Just think of the results we will have from NASA's future telescopes that will be specifically designed to detect and study extrasolar planets," he said.

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