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  The Lotus Garland
May I clearly see with my divine eye all the close friends, monks and students and so on, and may I be able to guard and protect them, bestow blessings and at the time of their death guide them to this land.
Until his passing into peace after two times the number of aeons as there are sand particles in the Ganges, his teaching will remain At that time may I not be separated from his regent Chenrezi and uphold the noble Dharma.
During the sixty-six trillion million aeons that he will live, may I continuously be his servant, worship him, and uphold the noble Dharma without ever forgetting to remember his words.
www.dhagpo-kagyu.org /anglais/science-esprit/themes_supplement/souhaits/meunlam-dewa2.htm   (1821 words)

  
 H.E.Tai Situpa: Green Tara
In one big aeon there will be many ups and downs, total ups and total downs, from the lowest time to the highest time on this Earth will be considered as smaller aeons.
For so many aeons Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara with that aspiration was liberating sentient beings, and then after many aeons through his wisdom and realisation he made an observation, these days we would call it something like a survey.
Countless by definition is countless always, limitless by definition is limitless; you cannot limit the limitless.
www.nic.fi /~laan/greentara.htm   (5608 words)

  
 [No title]
Aware that Candrakiirti has specified that the recipient of hundred- aeon anger is a bodhisattva, he surmises that the recipient of the thousand-aeon anger mentioned by "Saantideva must also be a bodhisattva and, moreover, that the angry person must be a //non//- bodhisattva.
A mature bodhisattva who is angered by one who is lesser [11] loses a hundred aeons of virtue; on the other hand, a bodhisattva angry with a greater one loses an aeon of virtue for each instant of the anger's duration.
Such persons might have attained a level of understanding equivalent to the path of preparation even before they generated //bodhicitta//, the effect of which would be to undermine (though not, of course, destroy) their predispositions to anger and desire.
ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/jbe/vol2/cozort.txt   (8090 words)

  
 A Brief History of Maitreya by Lama Thubten Yeshe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Countless aeons ago, Maitreya, while making many offerings, took the bodhisattva vows from the Tathagata Great Power (Tub chen) in the presence of many other Buddhas.
Having reached this level of utmost perfection, he manifested in many different aspects in countless Buddha fields, and at present his particular abode is the Pure Land of Tushita.
There he imparts mahayana teachings to many countless advanced bodhisattva disciples, and it was in Tushita that he taught his five famous texts to the great arya being Asanga.
www.fpmt-osel.org /teachings/maitreya.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Manic Miner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After centuries of peace and prosperity, the civilisation was torn apart by war, and lapsed into a long dark age, abandoning their industry and machines.
Nobody, however, thought to tell the mine robots to stop working, and through countless aeons they had steadily accumulated a huge stockpile of valuable metals and minerals, and Miner Willy realises that he now has the opportunity to make his fortune by finding the underground store.
In each of the twenty caverns are several flashing keys, which you must collect before your oxygen supply runs out.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manic_Miner   (1164 words)

  
 Maha Pajapati Gotami Theri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
With determination and tireless effort she had practiced the Dhamma over countless aeons to fulfill the aspiration made before the Padumuttara Buddha.
Seeing that Maha Pajapati had made an aspiration many aeons ago to initiate the order of the nuns, the fulfillment of which was to occur during His dispensation, the Buddha relented, granted Ánanda’s request, and formed the order of the nuns.
With determination and tireless effort she had practiced the Dhamma over countless aeons to fulfill the aspiration made one hundred thousand world cycles ago.
home.earthlink.net /~mpaw1235/id8.html   (2576 words)

  
 Reisz Lab: Strange Aeons
However, fossils (although indisputably dead) lie protected throughout the countless millennia of geological time, only to emerge for a kind of scientific resurrection when discovered and reconstructed by eager palaeontologists.
One of the most astonishing discoveries in the history of geology was the fact that the age of the Earth is measured not in thousands or millions of years but in billions - approximately 4.5 of them.
This vegetation was extremely exotic by modern standards, consisting of ferns, relatives of the modern horsetail (often of enormous size), and tree-like lycopods.
www.erin.utoronto.ca /~w3reisz/old/permcarb.html   (1564 words)

  
 Offspring.com Forums - Mota Boy's Thought of the Day
Over time, the atoms that were forged in the heart of celestial bodies found ways to combine into molecules - xygen and hydrogen become water, etc. After countless aeons, this increasingly complex matter began to self-replicate, creating life as we know it and vastly accellerating the process of evolution.
After more unfathomable stretches of time in which evolution led to increasingly complex forms of life, humanity has emerged, imagining itself to be the product of evolution rather than a mere stepping stone.
After countless aeons, this increasingly complex matter began to self-replicate, creating life as we know it and vastly accellerating the process of evolution.
www.offspring.com /forums/printthread.php?t=15057&pp=40   (1735 words)

  
 Practicing the Good Heart : Section 3
For three countless great aeons he practiced the six paramitas; for many aeons he practiced just the paramita of charity, making charity of his body, belongings, and relatives to other living beings.
Generating compassion for each and every sentient being, for each of us, Buddha felt it was unbearable that we should be overwhelmed by karma and delusions, continuously experiencing the suffering of samsara.
To a practitioner with great compassion, the thought of sentient beings suffering in samsara is unbearable; he cannot stand their suffering for even one second.
www.lamayeshe.com /lamazopa/pgh/pgh_3.shtml   (7711 words)

  
 The Body, Speech and Mind of a Buddha
Over countless aeons, he has accumulated limitless merit through the practice of the perfections of giving, ethics, practice and effort and has meditated with a firmly stabilized mind on the antidote to the conception of an inherently existent self-emptiness.
Although there may be countless Buddhas in any aeon, in the present aeon 1002 Buddhas are to appear as such, of whom four have already appeared.
When the Buddha spoke, countless beings each found in his words what benefitted him or her most and could understand it in his or her own language.
www.tibet.com /Buddhism/3jewels.html   (1242 words)

  
 Short Dharma Teaching
He had accumulated a tremendous amount of merit and wisdom over 3 countless aeons.
To attain enlightenment great effort must be maintained for 3 countless aeons for the sake of all sentient beings, and then through developing great realisation of wisdom one is completely free from all the impurities of samsara.
We have got the essence of the Buddhas teachings, the Vajrayana teaching through which countless masters in all the 4 major schools in Tibet, the 84 mahasiddhas in India and in other countries in Asia, all attained enlightenment.
www.purifymind.com /DharmaTeaching2.htm   (1120 words)

  
 About Amitabha
Before his guru, Dharmakara took 48 vows, including the vow to create, upon attaining Buddhahood, a pureland in which all who turned to him with complete faith and trust would be reborn and lead a life of peace and happiness until their final entry into nirvana.
After aeons and countless lifetimes of diligent practice, Dharmakara finally attained the Perfect Enlightenment, and became Buddha Amitabha reigning over a Buddha country called Dewachen or the Land of Bliss.
Because of his power and ability to illuminate all-pervading purelands of the ten directions, Amitabha is also known as Boundless Light and as Limitless Radiance.
www.drukpa.org /amitabha/about_amitabha.htm   (333 words)

  
 Legends of the Old Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Through countless aeons Diana followed her brother, Lugh, across the skies.
Azael and his followers disobeyed their masters/creators and descended to earth countless aeons ago.
Their purpose was to educate and civilize man. These sons of gods became known as "watchers of the heavens." While on earth, they fell in love with the women of the earth and took them as wives.
www.tylwythteg.com /dynionmwyn/lesson1/thirteen10.html   (961 words)

  
 www.maha-kala.com - The Noble Mahayana Sanghata Sutra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
“Sarvashura, at a time long past, countless aeons ago, a Tathagata, Arhat, fully enlightened Buddha named Ratnashri, endowed with knowledge and good conduct, gone to bliss, knower of the world, unsurpassed helmsman of beings to be tamed, teacher of gods and humans, a Buddha, a Blessed One, arose in the world.
For countless hundreds of thousands of myriad millions of aeons, the doors to the lower realms will be closed; the thirty-two doors to the gods’ worlds will be opened.
A countless aeon after that, the Tathagata, Arhat, perfectly completed Buddha Dipamkara arose in the world, and at that time, I was a brahman boy named Megha.
maha-kala.com /text/sutra/sanghata/sanghatasutra101.htm   (10229 words)

  
 Science-Fiction & Fantasy forums - Liya Ends
But it amuses her to assume this humble if beguiling form, to appear to mortal eyes in the aspect of a young, dark-haired woman with full, sensual lips and heavy-lidded eyes, clad in swirling robes of white edged in fl.
For Liya is ancient beyond human reckoning, the last of a forgotten race of star-dwellers who attained the peak of their civilization countless aeons before our Solar System even began to coalesce out of the primordial glow.
And then, in paragraph four you write: For Liya is ancient beyond human reckoning, the last of a forgotten race of star-dwellers who attained the peak of their civilization countless aeons before our Solar System even began to coalesce out of the primordial glow.
www.chronicles-network.com /forum/1798-liya-ends-print.html   (778 words)

  
 New Page 1
And within those aeons the specks of dust that would accumulate would also become aeons.
During this time of the Dharma-Image Age, there was a girl who was born in the Brahmin caste, and because she had done so many good deeds everybody admired and respected her.
Realizing the truth, she faced the statue of Buddha Enlightenment-Flower Self Sufficient King and vowed, "May I use the future aeons to establish as many possible ways as I can in order to release from pain all beings who are suffering from their criminal behavior.
home.iprimus.com.au /elgaz/Ch1.htm   (1668 words)

  
 SALVATION IS NOT LIMITED TO THE SO CALLED CHOSEN FEW, GOD HAS PLANNED SALVATION FOR ALL
There is no end as there was no beginning to the Love of God and its varied manifestations in countless forms, all expressing miracles of infinite Love and Grace.
Hence, even the bright spheres are themselves only relatively age-long, and they will be further transformed over countless aeons into something greater in God's Mind.
Heaven, as we call it, is far beyond anyone to attempt to understand, far beyond the scope of the human mind to grasp even a fraction of the reflection of the degree of light and purity which exists and always has existed in such a state of spiritual perfection.
christianspiritualism.org /articles/onlytruejoy.htm   (338 words)

  
 Tippmann Forum: DBibeau855: The Life and Times
The legend that is DBibeau855 has left scholars and the masses alike perplexed for countless generations.
Herein lie the countless accomplishments and extraordinary deeds of DBibeau.
After countless aeons of thought, the creature undertook his greatest work.
www.tippmann.com /forum/wwf77a/forum_posts.asp?TID=147654&PN=1   (1398 words)

  
 Temple Issue Resources
No provisional teaching leads directly to enlightenment, and with out the direct path to enlightenment you cannot attain Buddhahood, even if you practice lifetime after lifetime for countless aeons."
"Shakyamuni who attained enlightenment countless aeons ago, the Lotus Sutra which leads all people to Buddhahood, and we ordinary human beings are in no way different or separate from each other.
Therefore, to chant Myoho-renge-kyo with this realization is to inherit the ultimate law of life and death.
www.gakkaionline.net /tiresources/compare.html   (728 words)

  
 Introduction to the Oral Commentary on Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryavatara
For three countless aeons Buddha Sakyamuni was occupied with nothing other than cultivating the motivation of bodhicitta and practicing the six transcendental perfections.
During the second incalculable aeon he was able to recognize wisdom and hence practiced the union of the accumulation of merit and the accumulation of wisdom.
Finally, during the third incalculable aeon, he continued to practice the union of merit and wisdom, traversing the eighth through the tenth bodhisattva levels.
www.dzogchenlineage.org /kcrbcaintro.html   (8555 words)

  
 "Risu" | The Lotus Sutra | Temple of the Thousand Swallows
He realizes the profound, unparalleled law and preaches it according to people's capacity, yet his intention is very difficult to understand.
Shariputra, ever since I attained Buddhahood I have widely expounded my teachings through many stories of past relationships and parables, and by countless means have led many people to renounce all their attachments.
The reason for this is that the Tathagata is possesed of both means and perfect wisdom.
www.freewebs.com /namu_ho/ls.html   (2033 words)

  
 Blavatsky Net
It was the turn of those "Gods" to incarnate in the present Manvantara; hence their presence on Earth, and the ensuing allegories.
the higher Angels had broken, countless æons before, through the "Seven Circles," and thus robbed them of the Sacred fire; which means in plain words, that they had assimilated during their past incarnations, in lower as well as in higher worlds, all the wisdom therefrom-the reflection of MAHAT in its various degrees of intensity.
Even a Buddha or a Jesus had first to make a vow, which is a desire, in some life, that he would save the world or some part of it, and to persevere with the desire alive in his heart through countless lives.
www.blavatsky.net /quotes/reincarnation/reincarnation-extended.htm   (2279 words)

  
 Chapter 11 - Origen-Continued   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Those, he felt, were the two keys, the one to the eternity before, and other to the eternity after.
What the church cannot pardon, God may. The sin which has no forgiveness in this æon or the æon to come, may be atoned for in some one of the countless æons of the vast hereafter." This exegesis serves to show us how primitive church treated the "unpardonable sins." (Matt.
The historian Schaff concedes that among those quickened and inspired to follow Origen were Pamphilus, Eusebius of Cæsarea, Didymus of Alexandria, Athanasius, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzum, and Gregory of Nyssa; and among the Latin fathers, Hilary and Jerome.
hellbusters.8m.com /upd11.html   (3104 words)

  
 Vajrayana-the Diamond Way
For all the hype and spectacle of its exposed and exhilarating drama of countless buffalo-masked lama dances, shrieking, prophetic oracles, initiations and what have you, the Vajrayana or the Diamond Way actually delineates a highly compact and structured Buddhist programme, a pedagogy in fact.
In other words, in spite of themselves, due to their entrenchment with the multitude of defilement over countless time, all unenlightened beings are all crazily creating the causes for suffering in a futile bid to achieve happiness.
"I cannot bear the idea of training for countless aeons in the 6 Perfections not because I cannot bear the austerities it entails but because I cannot bear the sufferings of all beings in the meantime.
www.4ui.com /eart/143eart2.htm   (1147 words)

  
 [No title]
To my astonishment, I found that it predated the construction of the temple itself by countless thousands of years, and that it spoke of the same subject as did the hieroglyphs I beheld on the wall of the concealed chamber which I and Lord Blakiston discovered within the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
These passages seem to have been deliberately obscured, and this fact combined with the passage of countless aeons and the embrace of the eternally shifting sands lamentably prevents me from translating the inscriptions on the fragment any further.
Thus was the spell of confinement woven countless aeons ago by Angsaar's immortal nemesis broken, and on that fateful day the dread Chaos-Liege strode the world of mortal men once more.
www.zenial.nl /txt/atlantis.txt   (4595 words)

  
 Sakyamuni - Lord Sakyamuni Buddha - Thanka No. 1
In 6th century B.C. á¡kyamuni Buddha descended to the world to show the right path to the fortunate beings, so that they may attain freedom from the cycle of existence.
He practised all kinds of Bodhisattva's activities for countless aeons to attain perfect enlightenment.
He delivered religious sermons for the benefit of all sentient beings travelling from one place to another till the end of his life.
www.ignca.nic.in /ex042006.htm   (259 words)

  
 HSU YUN ES - Prerequisites of the Ch'an Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
For since countless aeons, our own delusion has immersed us in the (sea of) birth and death.
Moreover, the Buddha and Patriarchs had expounded it again and again, and their injunction in this respect had also been repeated; theirs were true words, words corresponding to reality, which did not contain an atom of falsehood and deception.
However, all living beings on this earth have been, for countless aeons, deluded and sunk in the bitter ocean of birth and death, rising and falling in their endless transmigrations.
www.hsuyun.com /en/hsuyun/hsuyun1eng.html   (4139 words)

  
 The Sutra of Visualization of the Buddha of Infinite Life
These countless lands of the Buddhas could be seen by Vaidehi in all their majesty.
For those who visualize this Bodhisattva, the evil karma binding them to infinite aeons of birth-and-death is eliminated, and those who perform this visualization will no longer be subject to birth from the womb, but will roam freely throughout the pure and exquisite lands of the Buddhas.
After one small aeon passes, each aspirant attains the insight into the non-origination of all existence, and in the presence of each Buddha, receive a prediction of their future attainment.
www.cloudwater.org /visualization.html   (9196 words)

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