Buddhism and Global Ethic

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Buddhism and Global Ethic

• Rosan Yoshida, Ph.D.
• Presentation
• At
• Ethical Society, St. Louis
• July 29, 2007 C.E.

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Blind Men Groping For An Animal

• King Adassa asked blind men to touch
• an animal and tell him their findings.
• Blind men groped, guessed, insisted and
• fought for their findings
• Snake, Hose, Pillar, Winnow, Wall, . .
  .

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Buddhism (Awakened Way 1)

• AWAKENING from nightmare daydreams
• (delusionselfishness due to motion/idea)
• in the 3 Steps (delusion-action-suffering)
• PEACE in awakening unconditioning
• (cessation of action/action-resultkarma)
• by the 3 Learning (sila, samadhi, prajna
• morality, concentration,
  prognosis)

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Buddhism (Awakened Way 2)

• Unsurpassed Awakening
• (anuttara-samyak-sambodhi)
• in the Dharma of Dependent Origination
  (paticca-samuppada)
• Unconditioned Peace
• (nirvana, cessation of wind,
• or storm of emotions volitions)

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Dependent Origination 1

• Shortest expression
• With-cause form/formation (sa-hetu
  dhamma/dharmaphenomena with causes/conditions
• Simplest description)
• When this is, that is. When this is not,
  that is not.
• When this arises, that arises. When this
  ceases that ceases.
• 3. Original meaning
• Dependent Origination of
  perception/consciousness on sense organs and
  sense
• objects (paticca-sam-uppada coming
  together origination of organs/objects)
• 4. Application to other originations
• Origination of suffering dependent on
  craving/attachment.
• Origination of samsaraflow (vicissitude
  of life) dependent on nescience/ignorance
• 5. 12 limbed Dependent (putting together of
  above 3 and 4
• This was formulated for learning/teaching
  of samsara-suffering (life in suffering)
• 6. Comprehensive nature/statement

Notes on the terms Name-form sense object
dharma Six bases six sense
organs Contact contact of sense organ,
sense object and consciousness Formation
function (karma) Becoming birth/aging/death
samsara (flow) Craving,
formations suffering are called 鍍hree
steps (sando) Nescience (existential ignorance)
appropriates body-mind as self,
involved in becoming (birth, aging, death
samsara).

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Dependent Origination 2

• Old oral tradition
• Nescience