Why did the Buddha choose not to live of Light?
"Devas, on seeing me, said, 'Gotama the contemplative is dead.' Other devas said, 'He isn't dead, he's dying.' Others said, 'He's neither dead nor dying, he's an arahant, for this is the way arahants live.'
"I thought: 'Suppose I were to practice going altogether without food.' Then devas came to me and said, 'Dear sir, please don't practice going altogether without food. If you go altogether without food, we'll infuse divine nourishment in through your pores, and you will survive on that.' I thought, 'If I were to claim to be completely fasting while these devas are infusing divine nourishment in through my pores, I would be lying.' So I dismissed them, saying, 'Enough.'
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Why did the Buddha choose not to live of Light?
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Why did the Buddha choose not to live of Light?
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Re: Why did the Buddha choose not to live of Light?
The title should read: "woman fails miserably while attempting to prove...Lucas Oliveira wrote:Living on light: woman attempts to prove humans can live without food
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/ ... thout-food
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Re: Why did the Buddha choose not to live of Light?
"All beings subsist on nutriment", -this, according to the Buddha, is the one single fact about life that, above all, deserves to be remembered, contemplated and understood. There are four nutriments according to the Dharma, see http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... el105.html
Body and mind are empty of self-existence/own-nature, because they depend on food/nutriment.
Body and mind are empty of self-existence/own-nature, because they depend on food/nutriment.
svaha
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
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Re: Why did the Buddha choose not to live of Light?
Because then you would probably have a lot of practioners dying of hunger trying to emulate him.
Re: Why did the Buddha choose not to live of Light?
That was compassionate of him!AlexanderS wrote:Because then you would probably have a lot of practioners dying of hunger trying to emulate him.
huh!Grigoris wrote:The title should read: "woman fails miserably while attempting to prove...Lucas Oliveira wrote:Living on light: woman attempts to prove humans can live without food
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/ ... thout-food
I've heard of highly developed Taoist masters doing this (allegedly), but otherwise that is too ridiculous for words!