Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Law of Interconnected Cause and Effect

The Law of Interconnected Cause and Effect is one of Buddhist teaching which is important and very circumstantial. This law can be explained by formula of twelve Interconnection Nidana, in cause and effect network. The twelve Nidana are :
1. Avijja paccaya Sankhara-By the existence of ignorance, so that the forms of karma happen.
2. Sankhara paccaya Vinnana-By the existence of forms of karma, so that awareness happens.
3. Vinnana paccaya NamaRupa-By the existence of awareness, so that physically and mentality happen.
4. Namarupa paccaya Salayatana-By the existence of physically and mentality, so that six body abilities happen.
5. Salayatana paccaya Phassa-By the existence of six body abilities, so that impressions happen.
6. Phassa paccaya Vedana-By the existence of impressions, so that feeling happens.
7. Vedana paccaya Tanha-By the existence of feeling, so that desires happen.
8. Tanha paccaya Upadana-By the existence of desires, so that binding happens.
9. Upadana paccaya Bhava-By the existence of binding, so that becoming process happens.
10. Bhava paccaya Jati-By the existence of becoming process, so that birth happens.
11. Jati paccaya Jamarana-By the existence of birth, so that death happens
12. Jamarana-Deaths

Need to be understood clearly that all Nidana are relative, interconnecting, binding, and nothing singular. Buddhism doesn't accept a first cause, The Interconnection must be looked as one circle and not a enchain.

Three Patterns of Life

The Law of Tilakkhana is three patterns law or conditions that's are absolute behaviour of everything in the universe. The Law of Tilakkhana is divided by :
1. Anica Lakkhana (The Pattern of Unimmortality)
2. Dukkha Lakkhana (The Pattern of Unsatisfied)
3. Anatta Lakkhana (The Pattern of Without Core)

These three patterns include everything thats conditional and also not conditional, can be realized by people who vanish all shackle (samyojana) as the cause of the repeatedly lives and deaths, and reach the highest congeniality about everything is without me/self (anatta), reach highest wisdom and knowing Nibbana.

The Pattern of Unimmortality
Sabbe Sankhara Anicca-Everything that appears (arise, formed, conditional) is not immortal. All events always start from beginning, then taking place and finally disappear. Anicca is unimmortality that includes all conditional things (sankhara). Five groups (Pancakkhandha) which form a unity that called human or creature are sankhara, and nothing a group even from five groups of khandha that will be immortal.

The Pattern of Unstatisfied
Sabbe Sankhara Dukkha-Everything that appears (arise, formed, conditional) is dukkha (complicated to be held up, unhappy)

The Pattern of Without Core
Sabbe Dhamma Anatta-Everything that appears (arise, formed, conditional) is without me or immortal soul. In the history of human kind, Buddhism is single religion which denies the existence of soul/spirit. According to Buddhism, the idea about the existence of one immortal soul/spirit is just fantasy.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Rebirth (Punnabhava)

Punabhava means rebirth or became life again. Rebirth teaching is one of Buddhism aspect and linked/related to The Law of Karma. Rebirth concept in Buddhism is a teaching that expresses about repeatedly lifes of the creatures. On Brahmajala Sutta, Digha Nikaya, Lord Buddha said that human had been living for tens of thousand times, so that untold how many lives of humans in this Earth. Even the same humans also had lived in other Earth before lived in this Earth. So, Our life is a long link life.

According to Lord Buddha, rebirth is not birth transfer because that is nothing in this life that moves to next life, but rebirth is continuity of life current from vibrated awareness because there is a motivation of karma. Rebirt is part of life and life is a awareness current (Vinnana) that takes place continously based on the power of karma. So, the death of people that we look everyday are only form change, because in fact life current of death people which are called as "death", have been reborn automatically (directly) in a certain world or in our Earth as deities, humans, devils, or other creatures. The rebirth is determined by its own karma.

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The Law of Cause and Effect

The Law of Cause and Effect is also called "The Law of Karma". Kamma is action, in general meaning including all kinds of will and itention, good and also bad, physically and also mentality, by mind, words, and actions. Karma is all wills or itentions including good will or bad will. On Anguttara Nikaya III : 415 , Lord Buddha had ever said that , "Itention to act. That's I call as karma. After willing, then people act by its physically, words, or mind"

Karma is not a teaching that makes people despair, not also teaching about a destiny that has been determined. It is true if everything in the past influence present condition. And the future condition is determined by own our selves (present condition). On Samyuta Nikaya I, Lord Buddha had ever said,
"According to seeds that have ever been spread, so that's fruit that it will get.
Benefaction creator will get advantages. Badness creator will get disadvantages.
Spread the seed and you will get the fruits of them"

So, all kinds of condition in this life have reason. In Buddhism, God doesn't make people suffering. And God also doesn't make people happy. In Buddhism, God is not a personal thing.
Suffering or Happy is determined by its own self. Griefs in the world are not a temptation from God. And awards that have happened are not a gift from God. The cause of griefs and awards is karma. The Law of Karma can explain the conditions in the world satisfy. The Law of Karma can explain why there are rich people, poor people, health poeple, sick people, etc.

Four Noble Truths

Four Noble Truths is the truths which were discovered by Buddha with his own effort. Buddhist teaching is based on Four Noble Truth. Realizing these truths is realizing and surfing on true truth behaviour, including full knowledge on its own self.

Truth is divided by two kinds, such as ;
1. Common Truth, a truth which is applied on daily life. This truth is also called relative truth.
Example : "Ice is cold"
2. Absolute Truth, a truth which is different from common concept.
Example : "-273 C is absolute zero temperature"

Four Noble Truths that is taught by Buddha are consisting of :
1. Noble Truth about Grief (Dukkha Ariyasacca)
2. Noble Truth about Grief Starting (Dukkhasamudaya Ariyasacca)
3. Noble Truth about the The End of Grief (Dukkhanirodha Ariyasacca)
4. Noble Truth about the Way to Grief Ending (Dukkhanirodha Gaminipatipada Ariyasacca)

The main idea :
"According to Buddha, this life is really full of grief. The cause of grief appears is ignorance about life. But grief is not immortal. Grief also can be vanished. The vanishing of grief is so called Nibbana. Nibbana is the final destination of Buddhism. The way to vanish grief and reach Nibbana is The Noble Way of Eight Elements."