Keeping the commandments is one of the six Paramitas, ie., the six
infinite means of crossing the sea of mortality. The six Paramitas are
: 1. Dana, charity, including the bestowing of the truth on others; 2.
Sila, keeping the commandments; 3. Ksanta, patience under insult; 4.
zeal and progress; 5. Dhyana, meditation; and 6. Prajna, wisdom, the
power to discern reality.
The Introduction of the Saddharmapundarika Sutra states that one who
makes unadultered progress by keeping the commandments is just like one
who protects the bright pearls with full vigour.
The fiery-pit is one of the Five Desires which is caused by the objects
of the five senses--things seen, heard, smelt, tasted, or touched.
One who controls the three poisons, namely, greed, anger and stupidity,
and does not do any evils, has fixed the mind. In right contemplation,
to seek for salvation.
The four offerings for a monk are: clothing, victuals, bedding and
medicine.
Chan is dhyana, probably a transliteration:
Ting is an interpretation of Samadhi.
The Saddharma-Pundarika Sutra (Lotus Sutra) states that one who enters
deeper Ch'an and Ting, will have vision of Buddhas in the ten ...

You approach to understanding the teaching of
Buddha is like a drunken man, having a hazy idea
of what or where destination is! (The destination :
true Buddha teachings)

You are drunk ..consuming all the intoxicating deviations
of Buddha teachings (including misinterpretations
of Buddha's teaching, creations and additional concepts
by later monks ).

You brain is full of wild ideas....not the true teaching
of Buddha. Buddha teaching is very simple and straight
forward.

Buddha's teaching is about HUMAN SUFFERINGs,
the root cause of human suffering, and the ways we
should lead our lives to stop human suffering.

Let 's simplify the tangle of thoughts given by you.

What is human suffering ?
Living in the palace, Buddha led a life protected from
the sights of human sufferings. He first saw human suffering
in three different forms.--
-- two old men, ....how old age destroyed memory, youth,
good health, and courage. How old men suffered pain
and infirmity.
-- a sick man ....groaning in pain and body damaged by sickness.
He learned sickness happened to all people.
-- a dead man ....the man cannot move, nor breath, and rotting.
He learned that all men must die.

He then met 6 ascetic monks:
-- six ascetic monk....holy men dedicated to seek the truth
about life and the meaning of life...who abstained from all worldly
pleasures and joy of the flesh. They too were suffering as well.

In China, all Buddhist texts are divided into two groups of 'Maha' and
'Hina'. The Enlightenment Sutra belongs to the Mahayana School of
Buddhism which means the greater or the northern vehicle, performed by
China, Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, while the
southern Buddhism is 'Hina' which means the small or the southern
vehicle, practised by Ceylon, Burma, Thailand and Cambodia.
The historical records of Fa-Hsien and Hsuan-Chuang, two famous Chinese
monks reported, in their books of travel to India from 399 to 414 AD
and from 629 to 645 AD repectively, that there existed two kinds of
doctrine called Maha and Hina, and that there were temples where monks
were learning either or both of them. However different the tenets of
various sects may be, we can easily discover the beliefs common to all
of them, if we profess true Buddhism. These beliefs are:
1. Body is impure; [should be 'Body is dusts']
2. Sensation and feeling are painful;
3. Mind is impermanent; [ should be 'The Nature of Mind is permanent'
ie., our Spiritual Soul or Buddha-Nature.]
4. Things as being dependent and without a nature of their own;
[dependent on the Buddha-Nature inside us]
5. Ever-rotating cycle of birth and death; {re-incarnation] ...

1) What is the Buddha's doctrine? In a nutshell, it consists of the
Four Noble Truths which lead to weed out craving and ignorance, to
overcome rebirth, old age, disease, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain,
grief and despair, to make an end of this whole mass of misery and to
attain the Eternal Peace, liberation and salvation from the round of
existences.
Our great Master, surveyed the world and found only suffering. He
analysed the cause of suffering and has given us a prescription for
eliminating the root cause of suffering by following the Eight Steps or
Eightfold Path.
Then, what is the Eightfold Path? It consists of:-
1. Right Knowledge. It can be distinguished in three degrees:
a) General right knowledge. It consists of compassion, loving-kindness,
and equality, the cause-effect law by which we can determine our own
future by our own deeds, and there is a doctrine of Rebirth.
b) Right Knowledge in the Buddhist sense. It consists of:
i. the understanding of what merit is and the root of merit, what
demerit is and the root of demerit.
ii. the combination of the five factors of form, feeling, perception,
tendencies and consciousness as impermanent, miserable and not self; ...

[Commentator did not know the TRUTH. Lotus Sutra or Saddharma-Pundarika
Sutra mentions in chapter 24, the Gateway. This is the TRUTH. IT has to
be SEALED as per Transmission Line in Heart-to-Heart SEAL. Hui Neng
Sutra mentions the Transmission Line. Very few monks believe this now.]

Idiot, did you read the above statement ?
You understand what I wrote ?
That piece was quoted from comment on Enlightenment Sutra or 'Pa Ta Ren
Ch'ua Ching.

Bald eagle wrote:

I copied from collection of 8 sutras published by the Nanyang Buddhist
Cultural Services printed in 1977.
Dr. Liao Tet-cheng is the translator for The Englishtenment Sutra or Pa
Ta Ren Ch'ua Ching. Comment could be written by him or others.

Bald eagle wrote:

aleax,went u use this word of (idiot)it prove that u have know patien n
a quality of yr knowlegde is....................so pls study THE
ORIGINATION OF BUDHISM N DO MORE MEDITATION RATHER THAN KEEP ON GIFT
WRONG MASSAGE?
Alex wrote:

You understand the preaching of no religion.
I hope you can underrstand, I am not preaching Buddhism.

I use most scriptures to preach no religion.
See http://members.lycos.co.uk/alexkew/comment/gospel.html ,
see http://members.lycos.co.uk/alexkew/sub1/obible.html ,
see http://www.geocities.com/alex_kew/buddhistsutra.html ,
see http://www.geocities.com/alex_kew/hinduism.html ,
see http://sg.geocities.com/alex_kew/chinese/taoteching.html ,
see http://sg.geocities.com/alex_kew/chinese/daxue.html ,
see http://sg.geocities.com/alex_kew/chinese/zhongyong.html ,
see http://sg.geocities.com/alex_kew/chinese/i_ching.html ,
see http://sg.geocities.com/alex_kew/chinese/chuangtzu01.html ,
see http://uk.geocities.com/alex_kew/chquran/chinesequran.htm ,
etc etc.

I preach that your spiritual soul, or the One inside you, is your God
or Allah or Buddha, Tao
etc etc.
The Mark at your nose bridge is the site of Your God or Buddha etc.
It has to be SEALED so you can return back to the origin.

ON THE HIGH SEAT OF "THE TREASURE OF THE LAW"
The Platform Sutra of the 6 th Patriarch, Hui Neng
Chapter I. Autobiography

Once, when the Patriarch had arrived at Pao Lin Monastery, Prefect Wei
of Shao Chou and other officials went there to ask him to deliver
public lectures on Buddhism in the hall of Ta Fan Temple in the City of
Canton.

In due course, there were assembled in the lecture hall Prefect Wei,
government officials and Confucian scholars, about thirty each, and
bhikkhus, bhikkhunis, Taoists and laymen to the number of about one
thousand. After the Patriarch had taken his seat, the congregation in a
body paid him homage and asked him to preach on the fundamental laws of
Buddhism. Whereupon, His Holiness delivered the following address:

Learned Audience, our Essence of Mind (literally, self-nature) which is
the seed or kernel of enlightenment (Bodhi) is pure by nature, and by
making use of this mind alone we can reach Buddhahood directly. Now let
me tell you something about my own life and how I came into possession
of the esoteric teaching of the Dhyana (or the Zen) School.