MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Gautama Buddha, Monastery, Faxian
3 Mar 2019
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Action that has an intentional quality and within that intention there is a moral quality. Cause are your intentions or karma (the reason you do things are the reasons you suffer) Learning to meditate and concentrate the mind so you can stop negative thoughts/ideas and karma. Authority lies in the interpretations of rabi at the time. Buddhism came to chine around 1st century ce (took around 500 yrs to get there) Wanted to find the truth of buddhism so he could restore it to its purity. Time is the enemy of truth--> information from beginning becomes transformed. Same model of time as christianity (common way of looking at history) One unitary whole--> the way we see the world. Reason is the ability to recognize coherent patterns. Essence of the origin speaks to that idea of unity but its not true to how history works. Different high gods that coexist with each other despite constantly battling for their spots.
