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	Togel - Preliminaries
		The suffering that is fundamental to this realm is the suffering of stupidity and the inability to communicate.
		The second of the higher realms and the fifth realm in samsara is the realm of the Asuras or non gods.
		You then imagine that you are born in and stuck in this realm, and that you are undergoing the suffering of an asura now because their nature is jealousy, their principal suffering is unsuccessful warfare against the gods, and you imagine all the experiences of being killed and wounded.
	www.rinpoche.com /karmechagme/togel_prelims.htm (2938 words)

	Deva (Buddhism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sometimes included among the devas, and sometimes placed in a different category, are the Asuras, the opponents of the preceding two groups of devas, whose nature is to be continually engaged in war.
		Humans are said to have originally had many of the powers of the devas: not requiring food, the ability to fly through the air, and shining by their own light.
		It is, indeed, their imperfections in the mental and moral realms that cause them to be reborn in these worlds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/God_realm (1537 words)

	Green Earth Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The six worlds are the realms of consciousness in which we live, to which we are attached, into which we are born and out of which we die, depending on our karma and the unfolding of the links of "dependent co-arising".
		Between their realm and the heaven realm is a large tree: while the blessed spirits are enjoying the delicious fruits of this tree, the angry spirits are attempting to steal the fruits, and some of them are cutting down the tree.
		Buddhism teaches that the human realm is the most favorable realm to be born in, because in the human realm we have all the possibilities of the other realms as well, and the best opportunities for realization and liberation.
	greenearthfound.org /buddhist_six_worlds.html (5383 words)

	Buddhist Cosmology
		Asura, literally, means those who do not shine or those who do not sport.
		Bodhisattas prefer the human realm as it is the best field to serve the world and perfect the requisites of Buddhahood.
		The last six are the realms of the Devas whose physical forms are more subtle and refined than those of human beings and are imperceptible to the naked eye.
	home.earthlink.net /~mpaw12/id21.html (1762 words)

	Wheel of Life
		That is, birth in the higher realms was the result of a preponderance of virtuous actions, while the lower realms were the destiny of those who amassed harmful karma.
		The Animal Realm also includes wild creatures of course, but as their numbers dwindle and as humans dwelling in cities are cut off from contact with nature, this aspect plays an increasingly minor role in human psychology.
		The inhabitants of the next realm, the Asuras, the fighting spirits, are constantly looking for ways to attack the Heavens, to take away all that wealth, all those fine possessions and beautiful objects.
	quietmountain.org /dharmacenters/buddhadendo/wheel_of_life.htm (1255 words)

	Japanese Buddhism Photo Dictionary - Six States of Existence (Samsara; Sanskrit)
		The realm of anger, jealousy, and constant war; the Asura (Ashura) are demigods, semi-blessed beings; they are powerful, fierce and quarrelsome; like humans, they are partly good and partly evil.
		The human realm; beings who are both good and evil; enlightenment is within their grasp, yet most are blinded and consumed by their desires.
		Realm of Formlessness, the Bodiless Realm (Skt: Arupaloka, Arupadhatu).
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/six-states.shtml (2536 words)

	Om mani padme hum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mantras may be interpreted by practitioners in many ways, or even as mere sequences of sound whose effects lie beyond strict meaning.
		The first known description of the mantra appears in the Karandavyuha Sutra, which is part of certain Mahayana canons such as the Tibetan.
		OM prevents rebirth in the god realm, MA prevents rebirth in the Asura (Titan) Realm, NI prevents rebirth in the Human realm, PAD prevents rebirth in the Animal realm, MI prevents rebirth in the Hungry ghost realm, and HUM prevents rebirth in the Hell realm."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Om_mani_padme_hum (777 words)

	Hachi Bushu - The Eight Legions, Buddhist Protectors, Japanese Buddhism Photo Dictionary
		But the Asura King, one of the major gods of the conquered Dravidians, was a threat to the victors, and was subsequently demoted to demon status.
		According to Aryan lore, Asura was defeated by Taishakuten (Indra) and hid thereafter in a lotus flower growing in the Icy Lake (Skt.
		Among the Indo-Iranians, the term asura, ahura in Avestan, originally referred to a divine being on a par with the gods, in which sense it is preserved in Ahura Mazda, the name of the supreme deity in Zoroastrianism.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/hachi-bushu.shtml (2527 words)

	The Namo Buddha Glossary
		These are not living in hell realm, not living in the hungry ghost realm, not living in animal realm, not a long-living god, not having wrong views, not being born in a country without dharma, being mute, or being born in an age without buddhas.
		The desire realm includes existences where beings are reborn with solid bodies due to their karma ranging from the deva paradises to the hell realms.
		The formless realm is where beings due to their meditation (samadhi), have entered a state of meditation after death and the processes of thought and perception have ceased.
	www.rinpoche.com /glossary.htm (9649 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Hungry Ghosts?
		Asura are said to be the "enemies of the gods" so a human application would be those who are engaged in overthrowing governments and such.
		Beings are born into a particular realm according to both their past kamma and their kamma at the moment of death.
		These realms are accessible to those who have attained at least some level of jhana and who have thereby managed to (temporarily) suppress hatred and ill-will.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=4654 (2544 words)

	KTD Publications -- Book Catalog
		The three kayas are the nirmanakaya, or emanation body, by which buddhas appear in physical form in the realm of sentient beings; the sambhogakaya, or enjoyment body, through which buddhas appear to bodhisattvas; and the dharmakaya, which is the unoriginated wisdom beyond form, which manifests in the sambhogakaya and the nirmanakaya.
		In the asura realm, the beings are dominated by jealousy and envy and suffer as a result of their constant quarreling and fighting.
		The hungry ghost realm is dominated by greed, and the preta beings suffer terribly from hunger and thirst.
	www.ktdpublications.org /glossary.php (4353 words)

	The 25 States of Existence
		The realm of heaven where there is purity of heart, sincerity of faith, and devotion.
		are in the realm of form, pure of the distractions of sensory desire, in which one sequentially sublimates the senses.
		The next four realms are formless, where the limitations of the body and the plurality or multiplicity of physical objects is transcended.
	www.tientai.net /teachings/dharma/6realms/fa5.htm (737 words)

	Buddha's Words - Gotaro2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These six realms constitute all possible states of existence in the universe and all beings cycle between these states, dependent on their karma, none of these states being permanent or everlasting.
		The Realm of the Asuras points out the painful futility of competition and warring as a means of finding happiness - whatever is gained has to be constantly defended.
		Their realm is divided from the Heavens by the "Wish-Fulfilling Tree" which has its roots in the Asura realm but bears its fruit in Heaven: the Asuras are trying to get the fruit by force by chopping the tree down.
	www.gotaro2.homestead.com /Page14A.html (5208 words)

	Dharma Realm Buddhist Association - Dharma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Asura is a Sanskrit word that is explained as meaning either a) one without heavenly beer, or b) ugly one, or c) not a god.
		Asura is said to mean 'not a god' because the asuras have the blessings to be reborn in the heavens but not the virtue of the gods and so are defeated by them.
		Asuras who use their propensity to fight in a bad way end up as thieves, robbers, and gunmen.
	www.drba.org /dharma/btts/9xxentrydetail.asp?wid=12 (362 words)

	Mystery of the Soul
		The psychonaut is familiar with the many phases of the bardo that leads to one of the "six realms," or to liberation from the cycle of reincarnation.
		The various heavens and hells (realms of joy and suffering) which the human soul sojourns and dwells are to be found in the Mental and Astral regions.
		The dying's sense of perception is heightened during transition and is focused strongly on the bardo, and, therefore, it is imperative at this stage that nothing disturbs the dying person.
	www.indotalisman.com /death.html (20446 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Six Realms Of Existence In Buddhism
		The six realms of existence are levels of consciousness which we experience during the cycle of birth and death, this could include this very life and according to many are also realms of existence which we are re-incarnated in after death (if we do not practice Dharma well enough).
		Actually these realms do also refer to the state of mind, it is this state of mind that creates the opportunity for us to be born into one of these realms.
		There are those in the god realm who, with their tremendous pride and self-centeredness, really do think that the world was created just for their own amusement and gratification.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=95 (3061 words)

	Demon - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Many asuras are known to have challenged the gods and tried to gain world supremacy.
		Ironically, many of these attempts are successful due to boons granted by gods happy at the asuras having meditated in their name.
		The study of demons is called demonology, while the worship of demons is known as demonolatry.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Demon (3874 words)

	Order of Nazorean Essenes
		It is a blissful realm as the human, manussa, can develop up to Buddhahood.There is a mixture of both pain and pleasure.
		The Realm of ever-hungry beings with deformed physical forms, generally invisible to the naked eye, living in forests and dirty surroundings.
		The Realm of intense continuous suffering because of the bad Kamma although they are not eternal hells.
	essenes.net /32heavens.html (436 words)

	Paticcasamuppada: Practical Dependent Origination
		This life and the next, the woeful realms (hell, hungry ghost, animal, and asura realms), man, heavenly gods, Brahma, the Buddha, or sangha, however, exist in the process of dependent arising.
		All these are more realistic than the realms in the after-life [physical death] that is believed by people who embrace the concept of a continuing existence.
		Seen from the Middle Path the process of dependent arising, which operates according to the principle “this exists therefore that exists, this ceases to be therefore that ceases to be,” is perceived as devoid of ego, person, heaven, or hell.
	www.geocities.com /dependentorigination (6017 words)

	SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is the realm that determines which realm a being is going to be reborn into.
		They are born in this realm because they have committed the ten unwholesome conducts (the opposite of the ten wholesome conducts).
		All the ghost realm beings are born here because of committing the ten unwholesome conducts.
	www.blia.org /youth-text/teasher-5-engl.htm (919 words)

	Spirit Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Accordingly there appears to be 31 levels of existence which can be further divided into six basic categories; the hell realm, the animal realm, the preta or hungry ghost realm, the demon or asura realm, the human realm and the heaven realms (Tambiah, 1970).
		In the human realm most humans live as humans and use a kind of discriminative intelligence in an effort to maximise pleasure and minimise pain.
		Though it is preferred to be reborn in a 'heaven' realm the Buddha considered that even the most refined conditioned existence was impermanent and therefore unsatisfactory.
	www.spiritonline.com /files/messages/12/225.html?0 (3511 words)

	Asura (Hyborian God)
		Likely some extra-dimensional realm of the Gods; He was worshipped in Vendhya (what is now modern day India and Pakistan), as well as in secret in Aquilonia during the Hyborian era.
		Asuras were Hindu gods of the underworld opposed to the Devas, Hindu Gods of heaven.
		Overall I'm guessing that Asura the Hyborian God could be seen as the ruler,binder, and/or father of the asuras of modern myth.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/asurah.htm (931 words)

	Buddhism Glossary
		Other views treat the asuras as resulting from bad karma and hence they are seen as the enemies of the gods.
		He was a member of the Shakya clan, and hence is called Shakyamuni, "the wise one of the Shakyas." He is also known as Tathagata, "the Enlightened One." (2) Mahayana Buddhism holds that there are five Buddhas who have/will manifest themselves in the earthly realm.
		Some forms of Buddhism view the asuras as stemming from bad karma and other ignore them completely, having only five states of existence.
	uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /religionet/er/buddhism/BGLOSSRY.HTM (4126 words)

	Legends of 1000 Armed Avalokiteshvara
		Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of compassion, in front of Buddha Amitabha made to commitment to intentionally manifest into the three realms of Samsara in order to harrow the depths; that is to say, in order to stir from depths and completely liberate all sentient beings from samsara, and to be their supreme guide.
		Then he came to the human realms and emancipated them from the intense suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death by a discourse on the same, Thus he also went to Asura realm and Deva realm to free them from their respective sufferings.
		The three realms of Samsara are Kamadhatu, the desire realm, the Rupa dhatu, the Form realm and the Arupya dhaty, the formless realm,.
	www.buddhim.20m.com /2-8.htm (1012 words)

	Hell - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Buddhism acknowledges several hells, which are places of great suffering for those who commit evil actions, such as cold hells and hot hells.
		Like all the different realms within cyclic existence, an existence in hell is temporary for its inhabitants.
		Those with sufficiently negative karma are reborn there, where they stay until their specific negative karma has been used up, at which point they are reborn in another realm, such as that of humans, of hungry ghosts, of animals, of asuras, of devas, or of demons all according to the individual's karma.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hell (3626 words)

	Dharma Realm & Realms of Rebirth
		Each Dharma realm has its own characteristics, and its existence is attributed to the retribution of the beings.
		These ten realms do not appear to be discrete in their forms, as their existence is virtually determined by the state of mind.
		The fourth suffering is uninterrupted grade, meaning this hell does not differentiate, whether one is a god in heaven, a human in the human realm, a hungry ghost within the ghost realm or an animal within the animal realm.
	web.singnet.com.sg /~alankhoo/DharmaRealm.htm (3231 words)

	The Accounts of Request and Response
		We would not have to wait to fall into the Three Bad Realms, we would be leading the lives of beings in hell, hungry ghost and animal realms while still in the human realm.
		Although Asuras in the Three Good Realms are able to practice good deeds where their thoughts and conduct correspond with the Ten Good Conducts, they were born into the Asura realm due to their arrogance, fiery temperament and determination to outdo others.
		This is to ensure that we will not fall into the Three Bad Realms in our next life and still be able to attain the good fortune of the human and heavenly realms.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /accounts_of_request_and_response.htm (21339 words)

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