In the 21st century it is estimated that 488 million (9-10% of the world population) people practice Buddhism. Approximately half are practitioners of Mahayana schools in China. Mahayana Buddhism continues to flourish.
This signifies that all beings can become enlightened only through their sincerity and that spiritual training is perhaps not necessary. Chunda represented a new direction for Buddhism away from the domination of the pious monastics. He has given all beings hope of being enlightened in their lifetime.
Atisha’s ‘7 Points of Mind Training’ are not philosophy or religion They are pure science, so please experiment for yourself.
If we know death at each moment we also know life.
Chunda’s deep humility and sincere heart radiated out beyond that of the advanced practitioners and enlightened who had perhaps become arrogant or complacent. This indicates that practising as a true Buddhist of the heart is not about worldly success and reputation, but about humility, sincerity, and simple but total belief in the power of loving goodness and pure faith in the world.
We have the ability to make everything in our life divine. It is merely a question of the humility and clarity and our view. A beautiful flower may appear
It is fear that makes us inflexible, and forces us to suffer.
It is only the conditioned mind, the bridge or verandah around the house as it is sometimes called, that is sustained by knowledge and cannot tolerate any other kind of
Stilling the Mental Body The Mighty Elohim Speaks on the Seven Steps of Perception, p 36 The mental body is two-fold. It is the receptive consciousness into which the Pattern
LovingKindness is not something we have invented.
