2013年12月01日

Bodhi

Bodhi (Sanskrit, Pāli) literally means "to have woken up and understood" and refers to the particular form of understanding or knowledge that the Buddha attained upon his awakening.


This knowledge is an understanding into the

Causality by which sentient beings come into existence
Operations of the mind which keep sentient beings imprisoned in craving, suffering and rebirth

The way to liberate oneself from this imprisonment.

Returning into its original state of purity, to its original condition of non-attachment, non-discrimination and non-duality that observer and observed are not distinct entities

After destroying the disturbances of the mind, and attaining concentration of the mind, he attained three knowledges (vidhya)
Past lives
Karma and Reincarnation
Four Noble Truths
http://www.buddhanet.net/4noble.htm



Posted by Gyokei Yokoyama at 11:35