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**ehib8yPc** · 05-03-2012, 08:13 AM

Let's not forget the salient issue in this: The Buddhas' 2 teachers who taught him those forms of meditation were not Jains nor were they Buddhists. In my research, the were adherents of Upanishadic thought and the Buddha used their teachings.

Actually, this issue is irrelevent in Buddhism. In Buddhism, the salient basis of faith is Buddha was 'Sammasambuddha', meaning Perfectly & Fully Self-Enlightened Without A Teacher Who Starts the Buddhist Religion. Every day, millions of Buddhists chant:

Arahaṃ sammā-sambuddho bhagavā.

The Blessed One is Worthy & Rightly Self-awakened.

Buddhaṃ bhagavantaṃ abhivādemi.

I bow down before the Awakened, Blessed One. When Prince Siddhartha left the palace, he rejected what his two teachers taught him. What his two teachers taught him are unrelated to the essence of Buddhism. This is why, after abandoning his two teachers, Prince Siddharta searched for six years until becoming Buddha.

Kind regards

In this way did Alara Kalama, my teacher, place me, his pupil, on the same level with himself and pay me great honor. But the thought occurred to me, 'This Dhamma leads not to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to Awakening, nor to Unbinding, but only to reappearance in the dimension of nothingness.' So, dissatisfied with that Dhamma, I left.

In this way did Uddaka Ramaputta, my companion in the holy life, place me in the position of teacher and pay me great honor. But the thought occurred to me, 'This Dhamma leads not to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to Awakening, nor to Unbinding, but only to reappearance in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.' So, dissatisfied with that Dhamma, I left.

Ariyapariyesana Sutta

05-03-2012, 08:13 AM	#39
ehib8yPc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 564 Senior Member	Let's not forget the salient issue in this: The Buddhas' 2 teachers who taught him those forms of meditation were not Jains nor were they Buddhists. In my research, the were adherents of Upanishadic thought and the Buddha used their teachings. Actually, this issue is irrelevent in Buddhism. In Buddhism, the salient basis of faith is Buddha was 'Sammasambuddha', meaning Perfectly & Fully Self-Enlightened Without A Teacher Who Starts the Buddhist Religion. Every day, millions of Buddhists chant: Arahaṃ sammā-sambuddho bhagavā. The Blessed One is Worthy & Rightly Self-awakened. Buddhaṃ bhagavantaṃ abhivādemi. I bow down before the Awakened, Blessed One. When Prince Siddhartha left the palace, he rejected what his two teachers taught him. What his two teachers taught him are unrelated to the essence of Buddhism. This is why, after abandoning his two teachers, Prince Siddharta searched for six years until becoming Buddha. Kind regards In this way did Alara Kalama, my teacher, place me, his pupil, on the same level with himself and pay me great honor. But the thought occurred to me, 'This Dhamma leads not to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to Awakening, nor to Unbinding, but only to reappearance in the dimension of nothingness.' So, dissatisfied with that Dhamma, I left. In this way did Uddaka Ramaputta, my companion in the holy life, place me in the position of teacher and pay me great honor. But the thought occurred to me, 'This Dhamma leads not to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to Awakening, nor to Unbinding, but only to reappearance in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.' So, dissatisfied with that Dhamma, I left. Ariyapariyesana Sutta
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