Business and Buddhism by Joan Marques

Author:Joan Marques [Marques, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781317663423
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2015-03-11T22:00:00+00:00

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The Place of Suffering and Harming in our Lives

There is no permanency but change. From the most minute atom to the highest heaven everything is becoming. It comes into being, stays for a time and passes away, like the volume of water in the flowing stream.

Anagarika Dharmapala1

Buddhism: Some Basic Concepts

In the times that Siddhartha Gautama was struggling toward enlightenment, he became aware of a number of critical facts of life, which were later included in his teachings. He wandered for 45 years through many cities and villages in the Ganges valley area, and constantly taught his Dhamma2 to those who were interested. He did not write any books or scriptures. His close followers did not do so either. Yet, shortly after his passing, some of his oldest followers held a council, which was to be followed by several others afterwards. During that first council, hundreds of Arahants (enlightened individuals), led by the Buddha’s longest living disciple, Ananda, gathered to formulate a cluster of community rules, as they remembered it from the Buddha’s teachings. During the subsequent councils, the teachings were expanded, and summaries, reflections, and important points of teachings were noted and grouped.

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