Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Conversation between Buddha and a renowned Philospher.
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is at the base all Buddhist practice.
First- Dukkha- "suffering" the existence of dissatisfaction
Second- Desire for things to be different
Third- End to a the cycle of wanting something, (affirms existence of nirvana)
Fourth- Eightfold path leading to nirvana
Began in China, then spread to Korea and Japan.
Zen Buddhism was brought to China by the Indian monk Bodhidharma in the 6th century CE. It was called Ch'an in China.
Zen spread to Korea in the 7th century CE and to Japan in the 12th century CE. It was popularised in the West by the Japanese scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870 - 1966); although it was found in the West before that. Zen's golden age began with the Sixth Patriarch, Hui-neng (638-713), and ended with the persecution of Buddhism in China in the middle of the 9th century CE. Most of those we think of today as the great Zen masters came from this period. Zen Buddhism survived the persecution though it was never the same again in China.
"Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi" is the level of enlightenment that has been reached by Buddha.
Bibliography
Suzuki, D.T. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1964.
Print.
Smith, Jean. The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Buddhism. New York: Bell Tower, 2000.
Print.
Wright, Dale. Satori and the Moral Dimension of Enlightment. Los Angeles: Department of Religious Studies, Occidental College. Print.