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Lingkungan / Re: Thich Nhat Hahn urges parliaments, corporations, schools and families to adopt 5
« on: 16 October 2010, 01:20:01 AM »ada artikel menarik sehubungan dengan hal iniNgga tepat juga kalau dikatakan monastik jepang baru menikah setelah Restorasi Meiji, kenyataannya ini telah berlangsung cukup lama dalam sekte Jodo Shinshu.The So-Called Lay "Sangha" in America
by Ronald Epstein (Upasaka I Guorong)
Originally published in Vajra Bodhi Sea, v. 16, ser. 38, no. 188, Jan. 1986, p. 18.
(Chinese translation published in Wan-fo Ch'eng, Sept. 1985, p. 18.)
Many of America's new Buddhists are spreading the idea that they are a "sangha" and that their lay "sangha" movement is the correct adaptation of Buddhism to the American scene. Where does this peculiar and dangerous idea come from?
Traditionally the Sangha is considered the third of the Three Jewels---Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha--which are the foundation of Buddhism. Sangha refers to the community of fully ordained monks (Bhikshus) and nuns (Bhikshunis) who de-vote their lives, full-time, to the Buddhist Path. In both Northern (Mahayana) and Southern (Theravada) Buddhism, the moral relations governing the life of the Sangha community are practically identical. They insure a lifestyle that is pure, celibate, and free from worldly desires. In both Northern and Southern Buddhism, the great teachers and enlight-ened masters have come almost exclusively from the Sangha. There have been a few enlightened Buddhist laymen and laywomen in the past, but not one of them failed to wholeheartedly support the Sangha as the foundation of the larger Buddhist community.
How can laypeople constitute a "sangha"? This is a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. They hear that the Sanskrit word sangha means community and say to themselves: we are a community, so we should call ourselves "sangha."
Why do they ignore the traditional meaning of Sangha within Buddhism? Why do they try to usurp the roles of the monks and nuns without taking on their commitment, vows, and responsibilities? This is a case of an initially valid insight leading to wrong conclusions because of lack of correct information.
Most of those in the lay "sangha" movement were introduced to Buddhism through American Zen Centers that see themselves in the tradition of the Japanese Zen schools, which belong to Northern, Mahayana, Buddhism. They see that the teachers in those schools, both Japanese and American, are married and in many cases lead lives that are far from being austere and pure. It strikes them that there is no reason for them to support these so-called "priests" or "monks" whose way of life is not really superior or more laudable than their own. That makes sense. But then, instead of supporting a real Sangha, they set them-selves up as "sangha." They don't realize that their own Japanese Zen tradition was derived from Chinese Ch'an (Zen being the Japanese pronunciation) and that the lineages of Chinese Ch'an are traced back to India and ultimately to the Buddha. They don't know that all the great Japanese Zen masters strongly supported the monastic traditions as they existed in India and China as being absolutely essential to the survival of the Japanese Zen tradition. They don't realize that it was only in 1868, a little over a hundred years ago, that the Japanese government closed all Buddhist monasteries and sent all the monks and nuns back to lay life. The reason for abolishing the real Sangha in Japan was political, and no one in Japan has ever tried to justify it on religious grounds. The Sangha was simply never reestablished there.
Most of the people in the lay "sangha" movement are well-meaning, thinking that they are building a truly American Buddhism. Unfortunately, they are unaware that, throughout history, wherever the Sangha has been strong and pure, Buddhism has flourished, and wherever the Sangha is weakened and corrupt, Buddhism decays. By setting themselves up as "sangha," instead of encouraging, aiding, and supporting the real Sangha, they are not only failing to help build American Buddhism, but are directly opposing and undermining it. These well-meaning people should educate themselves about their own traditions, so that they can understand the harm they are doing, change their ways, and enter the right Path.
Monastics in Japan are particularly exceptional in the Buddhist tradition because the monks and nuns can marry after receiving their higher ordination. This idea is said to be introduced by Saichō, the founder of the Tendai school, who preferred ordaining monks under the Bodhisattva vows rather than the traditional Vinaya. There had long been many instances of Jōdo Shinshū priests and priestesses marrying, influenced by the sect's founder Shinran, but it was not predominant until a government Nikujiku Saitai Law (肉食妻帯) was passed during the Meiji Restoration that monks or priests of any Buddhist sect are free to seek wives.
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Bantuan Teknis, kritik dan saran. / Re: Ganti display name
« on: 16 October 2010, 01:17:55 AM »
Komedho itu bacaan pali/sanskrit. Berhubung kita semua ini ingin agama Buda bisa lebih mengakar di bumi Indonesia, seharusnya diganti jadi komedo.
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Sutta Vinaya / Re: Apakah ada aturan Bhante boleh main gitar?
« on: 16 October 2010, 01:09:19 AM »dah di edit juga..nomer 2 koq ngulang?mana?
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Sutta Vinaya / Re: Apakah ada aturan Bhante boleh main gitar?
« on: 16 October 2010, 12:28:07 AM »
nomer 2 koq ngulang?
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Mahayana / Re: Apakah ajaran Buddhist Mahayana mengenal kata ATMAN ?
« on: 16 October 2010, 12:25:20 AM »oh, pantesPantes napa?
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Bantuan Teknis, kritik dan saran. / Re: Ga bisa sign out
« on: 15 October 2010, 11:53:57 PM »
^ Pantesan aja ga bisa Signout 
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Perkenalan / Re: SINGLE BUDDHIS
« on: 15 October 2010, 11:47:41 PM »
Selamat datang Pucca..
Dinikmati ya jalan-jalannya ya di DC..
Dinikmati ya jalan-jalannya ya di DC..
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Sutta Vinaya / Re: Apakah ada aturan Bhante boleh main gitar?
« on: 15 October 2010, 11:45:00 PM »astaga! bukankah ada persyaratan yg harus dipenuhi untuk dapat menjadi seorang bhikkhu?Coba di list di sini:
- Berkepala gundul
- Berjubah
- Sadar dalam apa pun kegiatannya
- ...
- ....
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Bantuan Teknis, kritik dan saran. / Re: Ganti display name
« on: 15 October 2010, 11:36:51 PM »Virya = Sanskritnya Brosoal adhitthana vs aditthana -> itukan ikut requestor aja di http://dhammacitta.org/forum/index.php?topic=981.msg302184#msg302184
soal lia.oc, udah atuh, coba cek ke atas2nya lagi
Kalau ikut requestor, ada yang ini juga loh => http://dhammacitta.org/forum/index.php?topic=981.msg302190#msg302190.Mungkin seperti ID Virya (yang seharusnya Viriya). Anyway, monggo deh.
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Sutta Vinaya / Re: CULADHAMMASAMADANA SUTTA (45) [ASK]
« on: 15 October 2010, 11:15:56 PM »gue bergemingSorry,
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Sutta Vinaya / Re: CULADHAMMASAMADANA SUTTA (45) [ASK]
« on: 15 October 2010, 08:52:27 PM »
Sent back.
Sorry,you I can't repeat a karma action without waiting 720 hours. 
Sorry,
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Ulasan Buku, Majalah, Musik atau Film / Re: Film2 yg menarik utk di tonton apa ya ?
« on: 15 October 2010, 08:30:04 PM »
John Q ada hubungan apa sama Mr. Q?
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Sutta Vinaya / Re: CULADHAMMASAMADANA SUTTA (45) [ASK]
« on: 15 October 2010, 08:29:01 PM »
Maksudnya meski seseorang memiliki nafsu keinginan yang kuat, kebencian yang kuat dan kebodohan batin yang kuat tetapi dia tetap berusaha menjalani kehidupan suci yang sempurna dan murni, sehingga dia mengalami penderitaan dan kesedihan yang lahir dari pergumulan batinnya tetapi kelak pada waktunya nanti dia akan menikmati hasil & akibat yang menyenangkan.