03.11.05 (10:40 am) [
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KARMIC HINDRANCES
Unable to meditate, she sits to type out a book, THE SNOW FOX, nervously for her friend in California, as she is talking to her friend, she askes her three questions.
would you ..
(a) save countless immeasurable numbers of beings but then go to hell for an aeon for all the mistakes you've made
(b) spend your life saving just one person, your daughter
(c) true love
Later, she speaks of a synpnosis for Constantine and the text changes to describe her situation.
Born with a gift he didn’t want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine (KEANU REEVES) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by sending the devil’s foot soldiers back to the depths.
But Constantine is no saint. Disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one beyond, he’s a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism. Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn’t want your admiration or your thanks – and certainly not your sympathy.
All he wants is a reprieve.
03.03.05 (4:30 am) [
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ENEMIES
She starts to meditate and one by one they attack her. She realizes that although they can control and manipulate her mind, she can still asana, pranayama, and japa meditations.
03.03.05 (4:29 am) [
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EIGHTH GLORIOUS VICTORY
Lord Buddha, the seventh Buddha is listening. She prostrates several times.
Out of eight glorious victories of the Buddha over his opponents the victory upon Baka Brahma was the most significant in terms of philosophical beliefs. Baka Brahma and his seventy-two followers believed that they were eternal. While residing in Jetavana monastery at Savatthi, the Lord saw in his vision that it was time to straighten the view of these Brahmas who were in the realm of Maha Brahma, the highest abode among the first Jhana planes.
Once upon a time Baka Brahma was a human in one of the worlds in a universe where humans could live for a period of 100,000 years. He was a well-to-do Brahmin by the name of Kesava, but renounced all his wealth as he realised the ill effects of a householder’s life and became an ascetic. He practised Samatha meditation as a recluse and had achieved fourth Jhana or mental absorption. He was then endowed with supernatural powers and could see distant things and create illusions.
During that time a group of five hundred merchants who were crossing a desert in a caravan of carts had lost their way. They had been travelling for seven days and had exhausted of their supplies of food and water. The ascetic Kesava saw them in his vision and in sympathy for their suffering he created an oasis, where they replenished themselves with water and food.
At another instance Kesava saw in his vision hostages who were taken by a band of robbers while the hermit was residing near a remote hamlet beside Eine River. After hearing their agonies he sympathised with their misery and transformed himself into a king accompanied by fully armed troops. The bandits believed the illusion to be a real army and fled. Thus the villagers were saved from their hostage takers.
Likewise, a serpent king by the name of Gangaya chased a group of naval officers as they contaminated the serpent’s waters with refuse. When the ascetic saw this danger he transformed himself into a Garuda, a giant hawk and threatened the serpent in order to save the crew.
The would-be Gotama Buddha by the name of Kappaya hermit was a disciple (Antevaseka) of the ascetic Kesava in those days. The results of these Kamma and the absorption of the fourth Jhana concentration for nearly 100,000 years had led Kesava to reborn as a great Brahma god in Vehapphala, the lowest of the seven realms of Fourth Jhana Planes. As a Rupa Brahma god, Baka had lived for a period equivalent to the age of 500 universes.
When he died he was reborn in Subhakinha, the highest realm of Third Jhana planes, where he lived as a Brahma god for another 64 universes. After dying from that Brahma existence he was reborn in Abhassara, the highest of the three realms of Second Jhana planes. He lived there as a Brahma god for 8 more universes and was reborn as Baka Brahma in the highest realm of the First Jhana planes..
Baka was enjoying the immense span of existence with his 72 Brahma followers. Although he had died three times successively during this period he did not realised them, as the transition between these existences was so rapid that it seemed to be a continuous existence. He was regarding himself to be accomplished in a perfect state of eternality.
When the Buddha saw him in his vision Baka was proclaiming that Brahmas were the highest and noblest of all and that there was no other superior being or a perfect state, which could be called 'Nibbana.' Baka assumed that Brahmas were free from ageing, ailments, death and other forms of suffering and was therefore the Nibbana. To correct his view Lord Buddha appeared instantly before Baka and his 72 Brahma followers.
When Baka saw the Buddha he greeted him. "Welcome Ashin Gotama to our abode of Brahmas. Please strive hard and if you reborn as a Brahma you will be free from suffering." There were other Brahmas from the higher realms when Baka spoke those words. The Buddha replied, "My dear Brahmas, Baka has been deluded with this wrong view and is in total darkness. He is like a caged bird inviting a free one to come into his confinement to be free and happy. He is totally blinded by the wrong view and is assuming that the existence of Brahma is the Nibbana. Oh, how naive is he to overlook a potential danger. He has mistaken impermanence for permanence, and suffering as pleasure. He doesn’t seem to know that Nibbana really exists."
Then Baka argued that he was not the only one who held this view, but all his seventy-two followers had the same view. He confirmed that he and his followers had done good Kamma together to obtain this status and that they had achieved Nibbana since they are free from birth, ageing, ailment and death.
The Buddha replied, "My dear Baka you have lived as a Brahma for only 136432 Antara kappas or in other words only 100,000 Niyabbuda years (10 36). You have not surpassed Jati, Jaya, and Marana yet. I certainly foresee that you will die, but you are lacking wisdom to foresee your demise."
Baka replied, "If you can tell us our past details we will believe you."
Then the Buddha related their past lives and on how they had strive to obtain the present status. The Buddha answered all the questions posed to him by Baka. Finally in short of questions he tried to test the Buddha’s supra-mundane power and asked, "Now I shall disappear from your sight, you just try to find me if you can, my dear colleague."
The Buddha accepted the challenge and replied, "Baka if you have the might, go ahead and try me."
Baka tried in vain to disappear from the Buddha’s sight. He did not have the power to overcome Buddha’s ability to see everything.
Then the Buddha took his turn and asked; "Now Baka, I will hide from your sight. You can try to find me."
Baka still thought he had an equal capability to the Buddha and replied, "Try if you can."
The Buddha then disappeared right in front of Baka and the rest of the Brahmas and hid from their view. All the Brahmas were amazed and tried to search the Buddha. From his invisibility state the Buddha uttered a stanza which had the following meanings and made his presence known. "I see the dangers of existence. I neither wish any existence nor cling to any."
The Brahmas heard the voice, but could not see the Buddha. They were taken aback and admitted unequivocally that the Buddha was the greatest and mightiest of all. They admired the Buddha and praise him with the following words; "There is no equality to Lord Buddha in all the three classes of existence, neither among Brahmas, nor in Devas and Humans. The Buddha has all the powers, he is omniscient."
All the Brahmas who were present discarded their wrong views and converted into the right view. They all took refuge in the Buddha saying, "We will follow the teachings of Lord Buddha."
02.20.05 (10:14 am) [
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BUDDHIST CHANTING
She begins to chant in praise of the Lotus Sutra "Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo"
"Buddha Shayamuni had left word that recitation of the sutras had a sacred connotation. Those who would recite it will acquire the powers and wisdom inherent in the sutra they emulated. The Lotus Sutra is a 2,500 year old, 28 chapter text of a sermon offered by the Buddha. It contains (a) the climax and culmination of Shakyamuni's discourse on the meaning of Life (b) an oracle that predicts a future era [whose time has come] when humanity will begin to transform itself (c) a direct method that endows anyone who embraces this sutra with the gift of Perfect Enlightenment. His disciples preserved the Buddha's sutras for several centuries by committing them to memory and reciting them repeatedly. Among these, the Lotus Sutra was considered to be a secret endowment which the Buddha specifically bequeathed to our present age. The earliest known written record of the Lotus Sutra is a Chinese translation from the 3rd Century CE. In 13th century Japan the sutra was championed by the sage Nichiren who declared its treatise on everlasting life to be the culmination of Buddhism. Representing the prophetic arrival of a latter-day Declarer of the Truth. Nichiren devised a two-part form of sutra recitation featuring the opening section of chapter 2 and the entirety of chapter 16 to be followed by repeated chanting of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo.
02.20.05 (10:13 am) [
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KARMIC HINDRANCES
Outside, three little children, yell and scream at her, "Cursing Girl!" trying to make her angry.
02.20.05 (10:11 am) [
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DEVAS
Countless immeasurable devas appear, she sees the calm blue and begins to prostrate several times.
02.20.05 (10:10 am) [
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BUDDHA
The Tathagata still a Bodhisattva, incarnates in her womb, sees universal suffering too, gasps and begins to cry unbearably. She continues to meditate, and she sees a being she had hurt in a previous life, and images of her life. She becomes very sad and continues to meditate.
02.20.05 (10:09 am) [
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BUDDHA
Countless innumerable numbers of beings visit, and a Buddha appears. Buddha raises his hand to silence the beings. She sees in the Buddha's omniscience, universal suffering. Then the Buddha shows her images or examples, and she becomes very sad. She continues to meditate and she sees all the suffering caused in past life due to ignorance and stupidity, and that this was the reason that so many beings had appeared to attack her child.
02.20.05 (10:08 am) [
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KARMIC HINDRANCES
One by one, they attack the Tathagata still a Bodhisattva.
02.19.05 (1:53 pm) [
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BODHISATTVA BECOMES A TATHAGATA
Several Buddhas and Bodhisattvas appears. She quickly arises to prostrate to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and offers various flowers. The Bodhisattva speaks to the Sri Lankan monks through the Buddhist chanting on the CD player. And the Bodhisattva says "He becomes a Tathagata overnight, because the Tathagata visits and teaches, and he is very grateful." then he incarnates into her womb, to be her son, on Earth. She begins to cry and prostrate several times. Then the Buddha appears, foreseeing the suffering caused by the envy and jealousy.
02.19.05 (4:23 am) [
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STAR NEBULA AND COUNTLESS INNUMERABLE BEINGS
She sees a star nebula appearing and millions of beings being liberated from that realm. She kindly asks the being, why he/she is visiting her, and the being states "This 'rediscovery of the universal' is not the achievement of a day, nor yet of a single lifetime. The goal is indeed 'attainment' at a particular instant of time, and the anniversary of that instant is rightfully observed as the most important date in our calendar; but the attainment itself depends upon the exertions not of one life only, but of many lives. As the avalanche that suddenly descends upon the sleeping hamlet has been slowly gathering weight from the continuous falling of innumeralbe tiny flakes of snow, so the attainment of Enlightenment, by which desire, anger, and ignorance are swept away, is the cumulative effect of the efforts and aspirations of countless lives dedicated to the attainment of one supreme objective: Enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings.
02.19.05 (4:21 am) [
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DHARMA-READING
At 5 o' clock the monks and nuns, visit, for a dharma-reading, on the first paramita of the Bodhisattva. dana.
A Bodhisattva must give more difficult gifts that material goods to fulfill the highest form of the perfection of generosity. He must freely give the parts of his body, his children, his wife, and even his own life. As King Sivi, our Bodhisattva plucked both his eyes with his bare hands and gave them to Sakka, the King of Gods. Sakka had come to Sivi in the guise of a blind old man, just to provide him with the opportunity to make this remarkable gift. King Sivi, did this with no hesitation prior to the act, nor with any reluctance during the act, nor with any hint of regret afterwards. He said that this gift was made "for the sake of Awakening itself. The two eyes were not disagreeable to me. Omniscience was dear to me, therefore I gave my eyes."
Another time the Bodhisattva took birth as a wise hare. That existence came to an end when, joyously, he jumped into a fire after inviting a famished brahmin (again, Sakka in disguise) to eat him roasted. Because of the purity of the Bodhisattva's mind while making this highest gift of his entire body and life, the blazing fire did not hurt him as it burned his flesh. In relating the story he said that, in fact, the fire had calmed him and brought him peace as if it had been cool water because he had accomplished the complete perfection of giving.
The Buddha said that the practice of giving will aid us to our efforts to purify the mind. Generous gifts accompanied by wholesome volition help to eradicate suffering in three ways. First, when we decide to give something of our own to someone else, we simultaneously reduce our attachment to the object; to make a habit of giving can thus gradually weaken the mental factor of craving, one of the main causes of unhappiness. Second, giving accompanied by wholesome volition will lead to happy future births in circumstances favorable to encountering and practicing the pure Buddha Dhamma. Third, and most important, when giving is practice with the intention that the mind becomes pliant enough for the attainment of Nibbana, the act of generosity will help us develop virtue, concentration and wisdom right in the present. These three stages make up the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, and perfecting the path leads to the extinction of suffering.
02.19.05 (4:20 am) [
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ANOTHER GOD
Goddess appears, large, pure white in color with dark indigo eyes, she asks about her future husband, and the Goddess replies using the music heard by the CD player, "Samanthi, matta lambinawa." meaning Samanthi, will be mine. "Adi-Buddha belaniwa" to meaning see the Adi-Buddha and Dakini. "Ani matta thanay" meaning Gee, I don't know. "MahaKarunaya" meaning Great Compassionate Being.
02.19.05 (4:18 am) [
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THE THREE GODDESSES AND THE ROSE
She meditates on loving-kindness and beautiful soft rose appears, with three goddesses pure white in color with deep black eyes and a standing Bodhisattva. She quickly prostrates 108 times to the Bodhisattva and continues her meditation.
02.19.05 (4:15 am) [
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BODHISATTVA MAHASATTVA
Shortly after, a follower of the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, gives a ceremony and places a necklace type thing around a 'noble' being and touches his shoulder. She continues to cry, and the Bodhisattva Mahasattva tells her 'Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart' 'Whatsoever be the sin that I, poor brute, in my beginningless round of past births or in this birth have in my madness done or made others do or approved for my own undoing, I confess the transgression thereof, and am stricken with remorse. Whatsoever wrong I have done by sin against the Three Gems or father or mother or other elders by deed, word, or thought, whatever dire offence has been wrought by me, a sinner foul with many a stain, O Masters, I confess all. How may I escape from it? Speedily save me, lest death come too soon upon me ere my sin have faded away' He kindly tells her to practice papa-desana or the endeavours to orient consciousness in the direction of Enlightenment. He shows her, in his omniscience, in her past past life, where she had had such devotion towards the Bodhisattva, she is kneeling and praying devotionally to the Bodhisattva Mahasattva.
02.19.05 (4:13 am) [
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REPENTANCE
She cries and cries and cries, seeing the suffering she caused in a past life due to stupidity and ignorance.
02.19.05 (4:09 am) [
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PRINCESS YASHODARA
She practices the Brahmin technique for hours, and Princess Yashodara visits and tries.
02.19.05 (4:07 am) [
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PRINCE SIDDHATTHA
Prince Siddhattha visits, with his first teacher, a Brahmin. Prince Siddhattha instructs her to breathe out, to empty the lungs, of toxins, and make a noise at the back of the throat, and then breathe in. She does it incorrectly, and the Brahmin, taps her on her left hand and says "no". She listens to Prince Siddhattha, he breathes out all the way, and makes a noise at the back of throat, and gasps air in and breathes out again.
02.19.05 (4:02 am) [
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HOMAGE TO THE BUDDHA
She prostrates 108 times to the Buddha, again, and sits to meditate.
02.19.05 (4:01 am) [
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SANGHARASHITA
A Survey of Buddhism. Its Doctrines and Methods Through the Ages.
She begins to read, "The Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is universally recognized as the perfect embodiment of the ethical and spiritual ideals which the Buddha spent his life proclaiming."
02.19.05 (3:59 am) [
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HOMAGE TO THE BUDDHA
She wakes up to prostrate 108 times to the Buddha.
02.19.05 (3:56 am) [
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PRINCE SIDDHATTHA
Prince Siddhattha visits, and is shocked. So she takes him to temple, a Shiva temple of 1000CE. Prince Siddhattha returns, and speaks about the thousands and thousands of visitors at the temple, and gives her a biddhu.
Prince Siddhattha visits, and teaches her how to meditate like he learned in the palace. Breathe in, to top of lungs, breathe out, empty lungs, make a back of throat noise.
Prince Siddhattha visits, and she visits from a past life, and bows with nervous reverence to Prince Siddhattha.
Prince Siddhattha visits, and she gives him a gift, unknowingly, with this gift whenever Prince Siddhattha encounters suffering, it is transformed, so that Prince Siddhattha is always protected from suffering.
02.19.05 (3:54 am) [
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INTRODUCTION
"But now, in this latter time of image worship, having come to this spot and reflecting on the depth and weight of the body of my evil deeds, I am grieved at heart, and my eyes are filled with tears."
02.19.05 (3:49 am) [
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INTRODUCTION
The Bodhisattva, having triumphed over temptation, still sitting motionless at the foot the tree, bent his thoughts upon the universality of suffering and upon the means of abolishing it. His gaze took in the whole universe. He saw the endless cycle of rebirth unfolding to infinity, from the infernal world and the world of the animals right up to the gods themselves, through all eternity. And every birth, every life, every death was suffering.
Then the Bodhisattva, his mind thus in contemplation and completely pure, during the last watch of the night, just as dawn was breaking, at the hour of the beating of the drum, achieved Enlightenment. Tracing back the chain of causality, he discovered that the cause of universal suffering was the thirst for existence, and that the thirst for existence was based upon the false conceptions of mind, the self, and the material world. Thus to abolish the thirst for existence by doing away with its intellectual causes was to abolish suffering....Such was the inner Enlightenment, the revelation of perfect wisdom by which the Bodhisattva finally became a Supreme Being.