Buddhist Path
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Meditations2Go Guided Audio Meditations CD Set 1 Sale Price: $14.99  |
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Meditations2Go CD Set 1 features two full-length, fully immersive guided audio meditations (synchronized music and narration) on a single Audio CD. Track 1: "Restoring Balance and Clarity" (26:48 minutes)... |
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Buddhist Scripture In Pali & English Translation for Western Students: 51 Key Dhammapada Verses, Eightfold Path, Metta Sutta Sale Price: $5.94 |
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Buddhist Scripture in Pali & English Translation for Western Students: 51 Key Dhammapada Verses, Eightfold Path, Metta Sutta List Price: $12.99 Sale Price: $12.99 |
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In this album, you will hear the beauty and power of Pali recitations from Early Buddhist texts and scriptures. Buddhist practitioners all over the world will recognize the sutta [sutra] selections and other recitations... |
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A Match Made in Heaven: Devotion as a Path to Happiness List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $19.99 |
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In many traditions devotion is often described as the fastest path to enlightenment. This is especially true in Buddhism. Unfortunately it is often misunderstood, especially in the West. In this extensive teaching recorded from a very special week long retreat in Lake Tahoe in 2008, American-born Buddhist monk Lama Sumati Marut delves deeply into the ways in which a proper devotional practice can resurrect the divinity we have been missing and lead us to perfect happiness... |
Buddhist Introduction
Buddhism originated in the border lands between what is today India and Nepal some 2,500 years ago. Around the world there are over 300 million people that consider them self to be Buddhist. The word Buddha itself comes from the word “Budha” which means “to awaken”.
Awaken was just exactly what the Prince Siddhartha Goutama did at the age of 35 when he became the Buddha.
Siddharta was born in a royal family in Lumbina, present day Nepal. It his told that he had a privileged and protected upbringing with all the luxuries one could imagine.
In time Siddharta grew restless and developed an urge to see more of the world outside the walls of the palace.
He finally went outside the palace with one of his servants. On this first visit Siddhartha encountered an old man. On the second visit outside he encountered a sick man. On his third visit he encountered a corpse being carried to be cremated. Such sights brought home to him the prevalence of suffering in the world and that he too was subject to old age, sickness and death - that no one, not even a king's son, could escape these three sufferings and pains.
On his fourth visit outside he encountered a holy man, a so called Sadhu completely content and in peace with the world. Siddharta decided to follow the same path as this Sadhu when he believed it could lead him to no-suffering. On that day Siddharta decided to leave the palace for good and search for the cure to all suffering.
Siddharta wondered around for over six years in his search while putting him through thorough self mortification due to the ascetic life. He placed himself under a Bodhi tree to meditate. He was determent to find the answers and gain enlightenment. He entered a series of trances, and he even went beyond these trances until he finally gained insight of the true nature of life.
Siddharta at the age 35 had managed to become the enlighten one – a Buddha. After a few weeks of enlightenment he left and went out among the peoples to spread his knowledge. He brought together a group of five ascetics he had formerly been a part of.
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