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	Toward Sustainable Science
		Human beings were ignorant of the causes for these natural phenomena, how they affected their lives, or how they were related to each other -- all of nature was a mysterious enigma.
		In the context of a holistic understanding of the natural order, the human position within it, and the development of a beneficial human society, the extremely detailed knowledge of specialization has in effect led nowhere, and human beings are still very much in the dark.
		But the objective of Buddhism is to solve the problem of human suffering, which arises from both internal and external conditions, with an emphasis on the world of human behavior.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /toward_sustainable_science.htm (20648 words)

	The Four Virtues Of The Buddha: Breaking Out Of The Lesser Self
		The four virtues of the Buddha, from the standpoint of the Daishonin’s Buddhism, describe the ideal characteristics of human beings whose view of self is not hindered in any way by selfish ego.
		From the viewpoint of Mahayana Buddhism, therefore, true self, eternity, happiness and purity are called the four virtues of the Buddha.
		Brahmanism, the prevailing religion in Shakyamuni’s India, taught that the human being has an enduring soul or essence called atma n—“the breath of life.” Atman, often translated as “self,” was viewed as eternal, happy and pure.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/buddhismtoday/bc001.htm (20648 words)

	FOUR PLANES OF EXISTENCE( Bhumi) / bhumis.htm
		According to Buddhism the earth is an almost insignificant speck in the universe, and is not the only habitable world, and the human are not the only living beings.
		But there is the possibility for them to be born as human beings as a result of the good kamma accumulated in the past.
		It is a blissful realm as the human, manussa, can develop up to Buddhahood.There is a mixture of both pain and pleasure.
	www.triplegem.plus.com /bhumis.htm (20648 words)

	BuddhaNet Magazine Artcle: Ethnic Buddhism and Other Obstackes to the Dhamma in the West
		One of the most pervasive criticisms of Buddhism in the West is that its practitioners confine all their loving-kindness and compassion to the comfort of their meditation mats and ignore all the opportunity that the real world presents to the lay persons concerned with the welfare of their fellow human (and non-human) beings.
		Buddhism is the name given to the teaching of Siddhatta Gotama, who is better known as the Buddha, and Buddhists are those who affirm the validity of his teaching.
		In the United States the dominant form of Buddhism is Mahayana Buddhism, and Theravada Buddhism is confined to a few viharas.
	www.buddhanet.net /bsq14.htm (8067 words)

	Wake Up!
		Similarly, Buddhism teaches that the suffering of human beings is dependent upon a cycle of ignorance and desire which locks humans into a repetitive cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
		Neo is overtly constructed as a Jesus figure: he is "the One" who was prophesied to return again to the Matrix, who has the power the change the Matrix from within (i.e., to work miracles), who battles the representatives of evil and who is killed but comes to life again.
		Neo's apartment number is 101, symbolizing both computer code (written in 1s and 0s) and his role as "the One." Near the end of the film, 303 is the number of the apartment that he enters and exits in his death / resurrection scene, evoking the Trinity.
	whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com /rl_cmp/new_phil_wakeup.html (7572 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism, Rebirth and Enlightened Beings
		In Mahayana philosophy it is regarded as extremely fortunate to be born as a human in a free and peaceful country with sufficient time and resources to be able to pursue the spiritual path of one's choice.
		These teachings are the source of the Mahayana, or Great Vehicle, of Buddhism.
		One of the main divisions is between the Hinayana (small vehicle) and the Mahayana (large vehicle).
	home.btclick.com /scimah/mahayana.htm (929 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism
		The Buddha is regarded as a human teacher who had gained enlightenment, a transcendental being who had once been mortal.
		Hinayana has to create nirvana while Mahayana sees all beings as holding liberation from very begining but not aware of its existence.
		The differencesbetween Hinayana Buddhism(Tieu Thua Phat Giao)and Mahayana Buddhism is such that:
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8916/index2.html (929 words)

	introduction.html
		Shingon Buddhism grants salvation and enlightenment to human beings who would otherwise be caught in the cycle of birth and death.
		Kobo Daishi (Kukai), the founder of Shingon Buddhism, was born in the town of Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture in Japan in 774.
		He became a monk when he was 19 years old and went to China to study Esoteric Buddhism when he was 31.
	www.koyasan.org /nckoyasan/introduction.html (1110 words)

	Buddhism
		If Buddhism is changed into a deviant and externalist path, using the weakness of the human nature to cheat and harm living beings; disturbing the peace and safety of the society, then this conversion of Buddhism has gone too far.
		The first type is the authentic Buddhism, the education of understanding the true face of life and the universe originally intended by Shakyamuni Buddha.
		These four types of Buddhism exist in our society today, we should recognize them as they are and think carefully as to which way is most beneficial to us, and the one we will ultimately follow.
	www.purifymind.com /Buddhism.html (1110 words)

	Theravada Buddhism - Richard Gombrich - Microsoft Reader eBook
		He claimed that human beings are responsible for their own salvation, and put foward a new ideal of the holy life, establishing a monastic Order to enable men and women to pursue that ideal.
		Buddhism began as a largely urban religion, appealing to a new middle class, but in Sri Lanka it became the culture of the agricultural society.
		In this book, Richard Gombrich, a leading western authority on Buddhism, shows how Theravada Buddhism has affected and been afected by its social surroundings.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/73856-ebook.htm (548 words)

	Life Enhancement Products Presents: NeoFiles
		Unitarians gave me their faith in humanism, reason and democratic self-determination, while Buddhism is all about humans using technologies of self-improvement to become more than human.
		Instead of embracing them as potential advances for empowering human beings and pushing back sickness, aging and death, bioethicists would always look for the downside.
		Science, communications, and a growing awareness of other people’s worldviews are opening up people of faith to the idea that God may have given humanity reason for a reason, and encouraging new secular perspectives that attempt to offer the same psychological and practical benefits as religion.
	www.life-enhancement.com /NeoFiles?ID=44 (3013 words)

	Thousands Covert to Buddhism in India
		``The message of Buddhism is that all human beings are equal,'' said Harish Khare, a 36-year-old government employee who traveled from the western state of Maharashtra to participate in the ceremony.
		Nearly one-fourth of India's more than one billion people are low-caste Hindus or ``dalits.'' Also known as untouchables, they occupy the lowest rank in the caste system that is dominated by the once-priestly class of Brahmins.
		India's constitution outlaws discrimination on the basis of caste.
	www.buddhismtoday.com /english/world/facts/conversion2.htm (3013 words)

	Thai Buddhist accounts of male homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s. (THai Sexuality in the Age of AIDS: Essays in Memory of Robert Ariss)
		Or if human beings were to confine the scope of their sexual desire within the natural laws or processes of the world, that is, to only have sexual activity between males and females, the AIDS virus would not have arisen.
		The sexual activities that Bunmi says Buddhism classes as sins are precisely those which in Thailand, and presumably also in ancient India, have historically been regarded as dishonouring and sullying the female victims and their male relatives or spouses, namely, adultery, rape and sex with a girl who has not been given in marriage.
		Anal or oral intercourse(7) with a pandaka human, non-human or animal; and 4.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-EPT/anth.htm (5810 words)

	Albert Einstein - Wikiquote
		It is on this that those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes: human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
		Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
		Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Einstein (7891 words)

	ASPAC: Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast
		Han urged the Chinese Emperor to weaken Buddhism and restore Confucian values by laicizing Buddhist monks (in ki in), literally "make human beings of those human beings", with the noun "human being" serving as a verb in the sense of "to turn into normal human beings".
		Ricci argued that if there were no real substantial differences between fathers and sons, rulers and subjects, and elders and juniors, then Confucian moral principles were meaningless, since those principles consisted primarily of rules governing how human beings should interact with human beings who occupied substantially different positions within a hierarchical social order.
		A particularly relevant example of such verbalization is a line used by Han Yu (768-824), in his condemnation of Buddhism, that was often cited by Confucian polemicists for centuries afterwards.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/home/papers/scholars/baker/baker.php3 (4306 words)

	traer.txt
		More concretely, in Buddhism human beings are Traer.txt Page:3 grasped as a part of all sentient beings or even as a part of all beings, sentient and nonsentient, because both human and nonhuman beings are equally subject to transiency or impermanency." [12] Therefore, the human self is also impermanent, or relative.
		Societies cease to be truly human when they cease to acknowledge that each individual's fulfillment is the purpose of the whole.
		Thus, from a Buddhist perspective, human rights need to be grounded in what today might be described as an ecological view of nature and humanity, and rights need to be conceived for other forms of life and not just for humans, if the ego-centeredness often associated with personal rights is to be avoided.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/jbe/conference/traer.txt (2218 words)

	Why the Dalai Lama Should Read Aristotle
		If it is possible to discover the source of universal human rights in Aristotle's writings, as well as discover a compatibility to Buddhist beliefs and practices, then we may ground a case for the idea of human rights existing prior to their modern Lockean origins and accessible to Buddhism.
		If one were attempting to address Keown's idea of developing an "intellectual bridgework" necessary to ground human rights in Buddhism, then perhaps it would be more useful to construct a bridge between Buddhism and the ancient understanding of natural rights and natural law in order to overcome the modern obstacle of Lockean rights.
		To facilitate its purpose, this paper will consider the modern, Lockean understanding of "rights" as the source of much of the Asian values' argument, and proceed to an examination into the compatibility of a Buddhist understanding of human rights with Aristotle's understanding of ethics and natural law.
	jbe.gold.ac.uk /8/mccarthy001_pdf.html (2218 words)

	Ajahn Chah
		His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, speaking to a capacity audience in the Albert Hall in 1984 united his listeners instantly with one simple statement: "All beings want to be happy; they want to avoid pain and suffering." I was impressed at how he was able to touch what we share as human beings.
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		Ajahn Chah is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
	www.experiencefestival.com /ajahn_chah (526 words)

	The EverLife Buddhist Education Center - Symbols
		The idea that ordinary human beings could become buddhas, because they inherently possessed the gem of enlightenment (i.e., buddha-nature) provided Buddhism with the doctrine that anyone could "return to" or "revive" their essential, enlightened nature and thus bring forth the blessings of eternal fulfillment into their present mortal existence.
		It is from this position that the Buddha would proceed to proclaim that all human beings are endowed within their Life with the eternal source of ultimate splendor.
		However, the Buddha reveals that he has the antidote and if only they would accept it on faith, human beings would rediscover their original, eternal selves.
	www.everlife.org /icons_frame.htm (526 words)

	Deity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A deity or a god, is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, or respected by human beings.
		In Buddhism gods are the beings in God realm of Samsara, these beings are numerous and are not worshipped.
		Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the universe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deity (526 words)

	Deity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A deity or a god is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, or respected by human beings.
		In Buddhism gods are the beings in God realm of Samsara, these beings are mortal, numerous and are not worshipped; it is also common for Yidams to be called deities, although the nature of Yidams are distinct from what is normally meant by the term.
		Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the universe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deity (1331 words)

	Deity Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
		A deity or a god, is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, or respected by human beings.
		In Buddhism gods are the beings in God realm of Samsara, these beings are mortal, numerous and are not worshipped.
		Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the universe.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Deity (1331 words)

	Contribution of Nepal Buddhism to the World Culture
		Nowadays many people recognize that traditional cultural assets belong to human beings; this is the concept of world cultural heritage in which there is the point of view that every traditional culture has equal value to continue for the human beings.
		We choose to preserve traditional cultures not only for the people who comprise and sustain them but also for every human being, because every traditional culture is a history itself and a treasure or mine of human wisdom.
		The Nepal-Buddhism will invite youth into their own spiritual, traditional, cultural and religious world, show that its world offers a more profound means of attaining true identity, and give them the message that, through the wisdom of their own traditions, they can become people endowed with self-confidence in the international world.
	www.lrcnepal.org /papers/cbhnm-ppr-16.htm (1331 words)

	Devas
		They came to earth before the elementals and human beings, and would remain in the state of dormancy until a certain human evolutionary stage was reached.
		evas, in Hinduism and Buddhism, are exalted beings of various types.
		In Buddhism, devas are gods who live in the various realms of heaven as rewards for their previous good deeds, but they are still subject to rebirth.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/d/devas.html (327 words)

	The Witches Way - Fairy Information
		They reproduce like human beings, and are lead by a race of kings named Suleyman, one of whom �built the pyramids.� Their chief abode is the mountain K�f, and they appear to men under the forms of serpents, dogs, cats, monsters, or even human beings, and become invisible at pleasure.
		The term fairy is also loosely applied to such beings as brownies, gnomes, elves, nixies, goblins, trolls, dwarfs, pixies, kobolds, banshees, sylphs, sprites, and undines.
		Tennin - In Japanese Buddhism, an angel or fairy, a heavenly, beautiful person who may appear on a mountain.
	www.witchesway.net /links/fairy (327 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.
		In the Tantric traditions of Tibet, the Wheel of Life on Tibetan Tankas depicts the six realms with great graphic detail -- the wheel is traditionally clutched in the hands of Yama, the Lord of Death, and shows images of hell, torture, war, human life, divine spirits, and other detailed iconography.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/six-states.shtml (327 words)

	Resource Guide
		Nichiren was among the first to embrace the idea that Buddhahood is a real, rather than theoretical, possibility for all human beings and, within the context of feudal Japan, asserted the revolutionary view of the equality of men and women.
		The Nichiren Shoshu priesthood insists that the SGI has no right to disseminate or interpret Nichiren Buddhism or provide the means for individuals to take up their practice of Buddhism, while the SGI continues its worldwide efforts to inform people about this faith and to promote mutual respect and understanding among individuals and communities.
		Nichiren Buddhism sees itself as the “Buddhism of sowing.” This means that it is always possible to implement a new cause which will produce a new effect.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/resourceguide/resourceguide.html (7167 words)

	book_excerpt.asp?bookid=2440
		Buddhism exhibits the pattern in the many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who are thought to have been human and subsequently function like gods, especially in aiding human beings.
		An ancient Hellenistic thinker, Euhemerus, thought all god myths were exaggerated legends of former heroes; therefore this theory regarding the origin of deity and myth is called "Euhemerism." Supporting this are the stories of god-human miscegenation in much mythology, resulting in figures like Hercules.
		Unlike the generic ghosts or ancestors who also once were human, there are specific figures, with personal names who become godlike figures in religions.
	www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=2440 (4593 words)

	Mysticism
		Anthropologically, Christian mystical theology presupposes a human capacity or fittedness for God, drawing especially upon the doctrine of human beings created in the image of God and on the doctrine of God become human in Christ.
		This distinction is problematical, since the meaning of either "ontological union" or "conformity of will" depends on the presuppositions about human nature held by the author in question.
		For information on mysticism in Islam, see Sufism; in Judaism, Hasidism and Kabbalah; in the Eastern religions, Taoism, Upanishads, Vedanta, and Zen Buddhism.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/mystic.htm (2383 words)

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