Brhamajala sutta in Buddhism, Chanting song and buddha images
Mahapanya
vidayalai
(Affiliated
Instute of Mahachulalongkornrajavidayalai University)
Subject: Suttanta Pitaka:
con...
Brhamajala
Sutta:
The Discourse on the Net of Perfect Wisdom. This sutta is the first of
34 suttas in the Digha Nikaya. Her long Discourses of the Buddha, comes from
‘brahma’ and ‘jala’. The sutta is also called ‘Atthajala’, Dhammajala,
Ditthijala, Anuttarasangama Vijaya. The sutta discusses two main topics: the
Ten Precepts, the Middle and the Great Precepts, while Majjhima-sila gives a
detailed description of the practice of the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth
precepts.The 2nd and
3rd parts of the sutta discuss the 62 beliefs, these are divided
into 18 beliefs related to the past and 44 beliefs about the future, with much
information to ponder about the Buddha’s teachings. The elaboration ends with
the buddha’s statement about the danger of clinging to these, as they are still
influenced by desire, hatred, and ignorance.
The sutta starts with
the Buddha traveling with his disciples between the cities of Rajagaha and
Nalanda. Suppiya uttered some insulting words about the Buddha, his teaching,
and his disciples. However, Brahamadatta praised and revered the Buddha,
Dhamma, and Sangha. Until they arrived at the King’s resting place in Ambalatthika.Precepts in the first
part the Buddha elaborates precepts that made people praise him or the Sangha
as worthy of reverence. The lists of the Buddha’s higher precepts are
categorized as follows. They are Cula Sila 12, Majjhima Sila 11, and Maha Sila.
Eighteen beliefs about
the past, in the second part, the Buddha explains the major beliefs of ascetics
in India. The souls are living in an eternal cycle of death and rebirth,
differing only in name, location, and time. These kinds of beliefs have four
origins: Ascetics and Brahmins who have reached a high level of meditation, who
have reached the spiritual achievements, who have managed to recall the Earth’s
evolutionary process from ten to forty times, who use logic and inference. The
Buddha said that there are 18 types of eternal tic belief, all based on one of
these four origins.The semi-eternalistic
belief is described as belief that is based on the past. The Buddha told a
story about a time the Earth was not yet formed.The Abhassara realm died and was reborn in
the higher realm called the Brahma realm and lived alone in the palace there.
Seeing
this happen, the brahma being thought, “I am Brahma, Mahabrahma, the Almighty,
Omniscient, the Lord of All, Creator, Master of all creatures. The second
semi-eternalistic belief came from ascetics who were once Khiddapadosika
gods,celestial beings that were too busy to experience desire-based joy and
fun.All
of the followers of these beliefs defended and clung to their faith and didn’t
believe in other faiths. The beliefs on the universe is based on the
speculation about the infinite or the limited nature of the universe. There are
four ways: the universe is infinite, limited, horizontally, and neither
infinite or limited.
Ambiguous
evasion or eel-wriggling is introduced in the Brahmajala sutta. Four forms of
ambiguous evasion: evasion out of fear or hatred of making false claims, hatred
of attachment, hatred of debate, and admitting ignorance.The
Non-causality beliefs stated that the Universe and the souls happened
coincidentally. Two possibilities: there were gods called assannasatta, and the
ascetics who based their thoughts on logic and thinking.
Forty-four
beliefs about the future, A. the perception still exists after death ((15) like
rupa, arupa...b. The Percepton vanished after death (8) like a rupa, arepa …and
c. Neither there was Perception of No Perception after death (8) like a limited,
unlimited. Annihilation
beliefs the proponent of these beliefs declared that after death, existence
simply vanished. The Atta was created from the union of father and mother’s
essence, composed of four elements and on the death, these elements ceased to
exist.
Five
beliefs on attainable Nibbana the proponents of these faiths proposed that
Nibbana’s state of bliss could be attained in the current life. The joy coming
from the five senses can be enjoyed and attained thoroughly. Buddha’s
conclusion “the Tathagata knows these sixty-two views. Knowing that dhamma, he
does not view it in the wrong way. He realizes by himself the extinction of
defilements (i.e., greed, anger, and ignorance of the Four Arya Truths). Buddha
finally concludes the exposition of these ‘wrong’ beliefs by stating that these
62 beliefs.
The
Buddha further explains that beliefs are origination from Contact as the cause.
Buddha states that there are no possibilities of feeling without contact. Would
see Dhamma(Truth) of Precepts (Sila), Concentration (Samadhi) and wisdom
(Panna) which surpassed all the wrong beliefs. Ananda said the Net of Essence,
as well as Dhammajala, the Net of the Dhamma, as well as brahmajala, Perfect
wisdom, as well as Ditthijala. The Net of views, as well as Anuttarasangama
Vijaya, thus said the Bhagava.
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