{"id":3659,"date":"2014-10-01T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2014-12-04T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T15:24:55","slug":"die-lehre-buddhas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"Die Lehre Buddhas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently I stayed in a hotel in Kassel.
\nTo my surprise I found in my room not only the obligatory New Testament, but also Die Lehre Budhas\/The Teaching of Buddha, published by The Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK<\/a>), Society for the Promotion of Buddhism):\"20140828_214948\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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To celebrate this surprise, I show you the drawing that I made in this room.
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And one of the pictures that I asked the woman who was vacuum cleaning outside my room to take of me. (I stayed drawing till noon, the time I had to check out).
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Ah, I see that the pictures do not match. Actually the vacuum cleaning lady came along two weeks later, when I was on my way back home staying in the same hotel:
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And I will type for you the randomly chosen pages from the English part of the book that I happened to read.
\nI type this from the copy that I asked the reception in the hotel to make of chapter 2, the pages 29 – 32:<\/p>\n

THE APPEARANCE OF BUDDHA<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is seldom that a Buddha appears in this world.
\nNow a Buddha does appear, attains Enlightenment,
\nintroduces the Dharma, severs the net of suspicion,
\nremoves the lure of desire at its root, plugs the fountain
\nof evil. Completely unhindered He walks at will over the
\nworld. There is nothing greater than to revere the Buddha.<\/p>\n

Buddha appears in the world of suffering because
\nHe can not desert suffering people. His only purpose is to
\nspread the Dharma and to bless all people with its Truth.<\/p>\n

It is very difficult to introduce the Dharma into a
\nworld filled with injustice and false standards, a world
\nthat is vainly strugling with insatiable desires and
\ndiscomforts. Buddha faces these difficulties because of
\nHis great love and compassion.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buddha is a good friend to all people. If Buddha
\nfinds a man suffering from the heavy burden of worldly
\npassions, He feels compassion and shares the burden with
\nhim. If He meets a man suffering from delusion, He will
\nclear away the delusion by the pure light of His wisdom.<\/p>\n

Like a calf which enjoys its life with its mother,
\nthose who have heard the Buddha’s teachings are after-
\nward unwilling to leave Him because His teachings bring
\nthem happiness.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When the moon sets, people say that the moon has
\ndisappeared; and when the moon rises, they say that the
\nmoon has appeared. In fact, the moon neither goes nor
\ncomes, but shines continually in the sky. Buddha is
\nexactly like the moon: He neither appears nor disappears;
\nHe only seems to do so out of love for the people that He
\nmay teach them.<\/p>\n

People call one phase of the moon full moon,
\nthey call another phase a crescent moon; in reality, the
\nmoon is always perfectly round, neither waxing nor
\nwaning. Buddha is precisely like the moon. In the eyes of
\nmen, Buddha may seem to change in appearance, but, in
\ntruth, Buddha does not change.<\/p>\n

The moon appears everywhere, over a crowded city,
\na sleepy village, a mountain, a river. It is seen in the
\ndepth of a pond, in a jug of water, in a drop of dew
\nhanging on a leaf. If a man walks hundreds of miles the
\nmoon goes with him. To men the moon seems to change,
\nbut the moon does not change. Buddha is like the moon
\nin following the people of this world in all their changing
\ncircumstances, manifesting various appearances; but in
\nHis Essence He does not change.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The fact that the Buddha appears and disappears can be
\nexplained by causality: namely, when the cause and
\nconditions are propitious, Buddha appears; when causes
\nand conditions are not propitious, Buddha seems to
\ndisappear from the world.<\/p>\n

Whether Buddha appears or disappears, Buddhahood
\nalways remains the same. Knowing this principle, one
\nmust keep to the path of Enlightenment and attain
\nPerfect Wisdom, undisturbed by the apparent changes in
\nthe image of Buddha, in the condition of the world, or in
\nthe fluctuations of human thought.<\/p>\n

It has been explained that Buddha is not a physical
\nbody but is Enlightenment. A body may be thought of as
\na receptacle; then, if this receptacle is filled with
\nEnlightenment, it may be called Buddha. Therefore, if
\nanyone is attached to the physical body of Buddha and
\nlaments His disappearance, he will be unable to see the
\ntrue Buddha.<\/p>\n

In reality, the true nature of al things transcends
\nthe discrimination of appearance and disappearance, of
\ncoming and going, of good and evil. All things are
\nsubstanceless and perfectly homogeneous.<\/p>\n

Such discriminations are caused by an erroneous
\njudgement by those who see these phenomena. The true
\nform of Buddha neither appears nor disappears.
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So, that was a light verse story about Buddhahood.
\nThere was more light verse in the hotel on my way home.
\nThe price of the rooms were more than doubled, because of a big congres in that weekend. At my breakfast it became a bit clear what the congres was about: there were people having breakfast in the strangest clothing.
\nA chat with two girls at another table gave the explanation:
\nConnichi, the Manga Messe 2014 in Kassel was going on.
\nTake a look:
\nhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hgg5dWoKF-s<\/p>\n

Two years ago after the same retreat something simular happened to me after having ended up in Magdeburg, where the next morning in a hotel people were dressed up like animals and a chat with a lad learned me that there was a Furry Convention going on there:
\nhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tcJ6NeQowUM<\/p>\n

There seems to be a strong need in Germany to dress up furry and funny.<\/p>\n

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