Exploring Dhammakāya and the Eightfold Path : หน้า 223/263
The Buddha’s First Teaching : หน้า 223/263 A comprehensive overview of Dhammakāya teachings, the Eightfold Path, and Buddhist concepts surrounding enlightenment and suffering.
This text delves into the Dhammakāya tradition, highlighting key components of the Eightfold Path and its teachings on defilements, enlightenment, and the nature of suffering. Concepts are illustrated through metaphors such as the emperor and the donkey giving birth to a mule, emphasizing the journey to awakening. It covers the important aspects of mindfulness, causing suffering through sensual indulgence, and the transformative journey towards liberation from the Cycle of Existence. The interrelation of karma, the significance of the Buddha’s teachings, and the analysis of different levels of attainment within the practice are also discussed. By exploring conventional understandings of suffering and reincarnation, practitioners can gain insight into the path of righteousness that leads to enlightenment according to the Dhammakāya tradition.
หัวข้อประเด็น
- Dhammakāya Tradition - Eightfold Path - Concepts of Suffering - Enlightenment - Mindfulness and Discretion - Metaphors in Buddhism - Practical Applications of Dhammakāya Teachings
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Dhammakāya, Sotāpana: Effort, Right (see Right Effort)
Coarse, 108, 134; defilements of
Eightfold Path: arises internally as 136-7; Subtle, 108, 134
sphere 105; components 20, 117,
Dhammakāya Tradition, Phra- 202; components 39-43; components
monkolthepmuni as founder of 102 arise simultaneously 133, 142;
Dhammañupassanāsatipatṭhàna fruits of practising, 202-4; mundane
Sphere (see Pathama Magga level 147ff. present at all levels of
Sphere) attainment 132; three-fold analysis
disappointment 58, 72, 199: as 20,144-5; two-fold analysis 145-6
suffering 47; caused by sensual embers, red-hot- {metaphor for sen-
indulgence 32 sual indulgence 28]
discretion: to believe in the work- embryology, Buddhist 59
ing of karma 39; eroded by crav- embryonic precursor 59
ing 86 emperor, righteous - {metaphor for
discretional mindfulness, 173-4 Middle Way 37-8]
discursive thought 100: sense enemies, the four - {metaphor for
100 birth, illness, aging and death 68-9]
dishonest: trading practices, 163- enemy: trusting a - {metaphor for
5; consumer practices 165 self-mortification 36-7; wife like a 154-5
divine-abilities 118 enlightenment: of Brahmās as re-
dog: and lion, {metaphor for sult of Dhammacakavatana
supremacy of the Buddha’s prac- Sutta 178; of Kondaṅña 24-5, 177,
tice 94], {chewing bone, metaphor 205-6; Buddha’s vow before 140;
for sensual indulgence 28] knowledge needed by the Buddha
donkey giving birth to a mule - to reach 140; mechanism of Bud-
{metaphor for the suffering of ill- dha’s, explained by Dhammakāya
ness 66] 111; the Buddha’s 15
Dream Body (see Subtle Human Enlightenment, Seven Factors of 38
Body) equanimity 38, 130, 131, 135
dream, enjoyable - {metaphor for escape from Cycle of Existence,
sensual indulgence 28] Path to the Cessation of Suffering
dying: as suffering 46, 58, 67-9, as 53
199; omen of suffering 67-8 eternalism, false view of 84
excrement: {metaphor for sensual excrement: {metaphor for sensual
indulgence 29] indulgence 29-30]; stale, mistaken
earth-sprite 24 for medicine - {metaphor for self-
eating poisonous fruit - {metaphor mortification 36]