1. The document discusses the Buddhist concept of reincarnation and karma, describing reincarnation as a cycle of life after life through which one achieves enlightenment.
2. It explains that karma refers to the positive or negative consequences of one's actions, and that creating positive karma can help reduce the effects of past negative karma over multiple lifetimes.
3. The document also discusses the "purity of mind" and how cultivating compassion and wisdom leads to a calm mind and positive circulation of thoughts and emotions, while ignorance leads to a vicious cycle of negative mental states.
This document discusses the concepts of reality, interdependence, wisdom, and compassion. It contrasts a self-centered mind focused on attachment, arrogance, and greed, with an altruistic mind characterized by compassion, warmth, and gentleness. The self-centered mind leads to destructive emotions like anger and fear, while the altruistic mind results in calmness, peace, friendship, and cooperation. A negative motivation driven by the self-centered mind produces negative karma and consequences, while a positive motivation guided by compassion creates positive karma and benefits. The overall message is that cultivating an interdependent, altruistic, and compassionate mind leads to happiness.
The document discusses the concepts of pride and compassion. It states that pride arises from feelings of competition and the need to feel superior to others, causing arrogance and jealousy. To eliminate pride, one must stop comparing oneself to others, recognize our shared humanity, and develop self-confidence through compassion for all people. The document advocates cultivating an altruistic mind through practicing compassion, which can transform one's emotions and motivations from negative to positive, leading to happiness.
This document discusses the Buddhist concept of Nirvana. It describes Nirvana as a state of purified calm mind and freedom from suffering that is reached through transforming one's mind from a self-centered to altruistic state. It explains that Nirvana involves ceasing the "low frequency" vicious circle of the mind centered on ignorance, destructive emotions, and negative karma, and maintaining a "high frequency" through cultivating wisdom, compassion, and positive mental qualities like friendship. It also provides an overview of the varieties of Nirvana, what Nirvana is, how to reach it by changing one's mindset, and a study of the relationship between mind and consciousness.
The document is a poem titled "Walking Meditation" written by Hitoshi Tsuchiyama. It consists of 6 sections where the speaker describes different actions and states of being - such as walking, touching, blooming, sitting - while in a meditative state without thinking. Each section emphasizes experiencing the present moment fully without internal mental chatter. The overall message is finding peace and freedom through mindfulness during walking meditation.
The document discusses implicate and explicate order according to Hitoshi Tsuchiyama's theory of body awareness. Implicate order refers to body (matter) enfolding into awareness (mind), while explicate order refers to awareness (mind) unfolding into body (matter). Both orders involve the phenomenal world enfolding or unfolding into the noumenal world through thinking and insight.
The document presents five meditation techniques: flower, mountain, still water, space, and sunshine. The first four are based on the teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh and involve breathing in while visualizing being that object, then breathing out while repeating qualities of that object, such as "fresh, fresh, fresh" for flower and "solid, solid, solid" for mountain. The last meditation, sunshine, was created by the author and involves breathing in while visualizing being the sunshine, then breathing out while repeating "love, love, unconditional love" and visualizing shining love to all unconditionally.
All sufferings are caused by separations, discriminations, or duality. That's because the separation between oneself and others cause all afflictions such as fear, anger and despair. And the root cause of such separations and discriminations is thoughts and notions created by human brain. In this book, I will share the "concrete practice methods to stop thinking" and the "concrete practice methods for the extinction of all notions" and explain their details. These methods have been verified through my own experience and many of them are based on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, namely the teachings of Buddha. It is my great pleasure if you will awaken true self, touch the wonders of life in the present moment and be filled with peace, joy and happiness through the practice.
The document discusses different levels of self-awareness - ego, temporary true self, and full time true self. Ego is the separate self that is unaware of the interdependence of happiness and suffering. Temporary true self can recognize both positive and negative phenomena but still experiences duality between birth and death. Full time true self has reached enlightenment through realizing the interdependence of all things and experiencing non-duality, resulting in ultimate peace and extinction of all notions. The evolution of humanity involves progressing from ego to temporary true self and ultimately to full time true self.
The document is Hitoshi Tsuchiyama's translation and commentary on the Heart Sutra. It explains that the Heart Sutra aims to guide readers to the non-duality of enlightenment by transcending the duality presented in the Four Noble Truths. It also discusses how interdependent co-arising can help one overcome duality and attain non-duality or emptiness.
The document is a collection of photos from Flickr shared under various Creative Commons licenses. Each photo is credited to the photographer and licensed as noted. The document footer states that the copyright belongs to Hitoshi Tsuchiyama and all rights are reserved.
The document contains copyright information for a collection of photos from Flickr licensed under various Creative Commons licenses. Each photo is attributed to the photographer and linked to its page on Flickr. Hitoshi Tsuchiyama holds the copyright for the collection.
The document is a collection of photos from Flickr shared under various Creative Commons licenses. Each photo is credited to the photographer and licensed as noted. The document footer states that the copyright belongs to Hitoshi Tsuchiyama and all rights are reserved.
The document contains copyright information for a collection of photos from Flickr licensed under various Creative Commons licenses. Each photo is attributed to the photographer and includes a link to the original photo on Flickr as well as the specific Creative Commons license. The copyright at the bottom of each entry is attributed to Hitoshi Tsuchiyama.
This document contains copyright information for Hitoshi Tsuchiyama and attributions for multiple photos used under various Creative Commons licenses, including Attribution, Non-Commercial, and Share-Alike. Each photo is sourced from Flickr and credited to its photographer with a link back to the original work on Flickr. All rights for the document itself are reserved by Hitoshi Tsuchiyama in 2015.
This document contains copyright information for Hitoshi Tsuchiyama and attributions for multiple photos used under various Creative Commons licenses, including Attribution, Non-Commercial, and Share-Alike. Each photo is sourced from Flickr and credited to its photographer with a link back to the original work on Flickr. All rights for the document itself are reserved by Hitoshi Tsuchiyama in 2015.
The document is a collection of photos from Flickr shared under various Creative Commons licenses. There are over 30 photos in total. Each photo includes attribution to the photographer and license information. The document also includes a blanket copyright notice for the collection.
