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World’s largest Buddhist resource center to come up in Colombo

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Construction work of the world’s largest publication and information center kicked off in Colombo with President Mahinda Rajapaksa laying the foundation stone for the erection of the 12 storied Buddhist complexes.

The Buddhist Center- Sambuddha Jayanthi Mandira after construction will be the first of its kind in the world to serve as a resource center for Buddhists and persons who are interested studying and conducting research activities in this field.

The construction work and other related activities will come under the scrutiny of the Mnistry of Urban Development and Sacred Area Development and the Buddhist Cultural Center in Nedimala with the blessings of the Maha Sangha of the three Nikayas.

The proposed complex will be equipped with a 600 seat capacity conference hall, audio facilities for language learning and with other modern facilities for the propagation of Dhamma around the world.

The center will be constructed in a land plot in Colombo 4.

 

Advancing the Mind

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Abhidamma in Nutshell - Part VI

You may have experienced a situation where you are looking at a particular object continuously with a blank mind. Your mind would have registered that object thoroughly, such a way that you would see that object even with closed eyes. Sometimes this situation would have gone further that you would conceptualise this object just as a mode of an appearance. An aspirant who would be meditating to improve and purify the mind would follow a similar procedure to achieve higher states of mind. 

Developing Jhanas (Dhyana) through Meditation 

54 types of consciousness pertaining to sensuous-sphere (kamavachara chiththas) would arise depending on the acts one would perform. The one who has engaged in many good deeds and developed many moral consciousnesses (kusala chiththas) and is not interested in ordinary sense desires would start Meditating (Bhavana) to improve and purify the mind. The first step of such a person is to engage in “Meditations of Concentration” (Samatha Bhavana). The one who is thorough with samatha bhavana would proceed to “Meditation of things as they truly are” (Vipassana Bhavana) which leads to the Enlightment (Nirvana).

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 05 November 2008 14:54 ) Read more...
 

When engaging with Meritorious Deeds

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Abhidamma in Nutshell - Part VI

In a previous article it was mentioned that there are 10 kinds of evil acts committed by Deed (Kaya), Word (Vachanaya) and Thought (Sitha). It was also mentioned that at the time of committing any of these evil acts one or more of the 12 types off immoral consciousness arises (akusala chiththas).

There are also 10 kinds of “Meritorious Deeds” described in Buddhism. One engages with any of these 10 deeds with non-attachment or generosity (Alobha), goodwill (Adwesha) and wisdom (Amoha).

There are 8 types of consciousness arising at the time of engaging in any good deed caused by moral causes (kusala hethu). Those 8 types of “Moral Consciousness” (Kusala Chiththa) are as follows;

Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 October 2008 14:47 ) Read more...
 

The Sixth Sense

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Abhidamma in Nutshell - Part V

Imagine a situation where you had become emotional. You were burning with anger or weeping with sadness or laughing with joy. At such instances you may have experienced that change in you blood circulation and your chest area becomes hot or you would feel the situation in your heart.

Recall a situation where you are concentrating hard to solve a difficult mathematical problem. Even though you had seen the mathematical problem from your eyes many things happen inside your head and you will feel some pain, toughness or hardness in your head. In a written examination you will see the problem from your eyes. But when you answer, from where you recall and retrieve all the required materials?

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 September 2008 14:45 ) Read more...
 

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ජොනී විල්කිංසන්ලොව සුපතල රග්බි ක්‍රීඩක ජොනී විල්කිංසන් පසුගියදා තම පැරණි දිවි පෙවෙත අතහැර බෞද්ධයකු ලෙස ජීවත්වීමට පටන් ගත් බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. තමා මින් මතුවට කීර්ති ප්‍රශංසා සහ ධනය පසුපස හඹා නොයන බවත්, අසාර්ථකත්වයට හෝ මරණයට වුවත් බිය නොවන බවත් හෙතෙම පවසා සිටී. එමෙන්ම තමා අන් අයගේ යහපත සහ සතුට දකිනු රිසි බවත් ඔහු පවසයි.

එංගලන්ත ජාතික රගර් කණ්ඩායම වෙනුවෙන් ක්‍රීඩාකරන ප්‍රබල ක්‍රීඩකයෙකු වන ඔහු 2003 රගර් ලෝක කුසලානයේදී පෑ දස්කම් නිසා ඉමහත් ජනප්‍රියත්වයක් ලැබීය. ඉන්පසු ඔහු ශාරීරික පීඩාවන් රාශියකට ලක් වූ අතර බුදුදහමේ ඉගැන්වීම් හැදෑරීමෙන් පසු තමාට ඒ සියලු බාධක වලට නොබියව මුහුණ දීමට හැකි වූ බව පවසයි.

තමා දැන් සමාජ තත්වය, මුදල් හෝ ආත්මාර්ථය පිළිබඳ කිසිඳු උනන්දුවක් නොදක්වන බවත්, මීට පෙර තමා එසේ නොසිතූ බවත්, ලොව හොඳම ක්‍රීඩකයා වීමට එකල තමන්ට අවශ්‍යව තිබූ බවත් පැවසීය. නමුත් දැන් තමා රග්බි පිටියේ ක්‍රීඩා කිරීමේදී අන් ක්‍රීඩකයින් අභිබවා යෑමේ චේතනාවක් නැති බවත්, තමා තුල ඇති හැකියාවන් වර්ධනය කරගැනීමට පමණක් උත්සාහ ගන්නා බවත් ඔහු පවසයි.

 
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