Buddhas Light Body

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SUPERSTITITION, SYMBOLISM, REALITY OR COMPLETE INSANITY?

 

"Thereupon Bhagavan, having himself arranged the Lion Seat, sat down with

his legs crossed; holding his body erect, intent on fixing his mindfullness,

he entered into the samadhi - "King of Samadhis" - in which all samadhis are

included, comprehended and come to meet.

 

Thereupon Bhagavan, mindfull and self-possessed, emerging from the samadhi,

surveyed with the Heavenly Eye the entire world system. His whole body

became radiant. From the wheels with a 1000 spokes on the soles of his feet

issued 60 hundred thousand niyutas of kotis of rays, and so from his ten

toes, and similarily from his ankles, legs, knees, thighs, hips and navel,

from his two sides, and from the sign "Srivata" (Svastika) on his chest, a

mark of the Tathagatha. Similarily from his ten fingers, his two arms, his

two shoulders, from his neck, his fourty teeth, his two nostrils, ears and

eyes, from the hair-tuft in the middle between his eye-brows, and from the

cowl on the top of his head. And through these rays, this great cosmos of

3000 million worlds was illumined and lit up. And in the East world systems

as numerous as the sands of the Ganges were, by this great illumination of

rays, lit up and became illumined. So in the South, the West, the North, the

North-East, the South-East, the South-West, the North-west, below and above.

And the beeings who were lit up and illumined focused on the Uttermost,

Complete and Perfect Enlightenment.

 

Thereupon all Bhagavans hairpores became radiant, and from each single pore

issued 60 hundred thousand of niyutas of kotis of rays through which this

system of 3000 million worlds was illumined and lit up. And in the East

world systems as numerous as the sands of Ganges were, by this great

illumination of rays, lit up and illumined. And so in the other nine

directions. And the beeings, who were lit up and illumined by this great

illumination of rays, they all became focused on the Uttermost, Complete and

Perfect Enlightenment.

 

Thereupon Bhagavan again, with the natural splendour of the Buddhas, the

Bhagavans, illumined these cosmos of 3000 million world systems. And so on,

up to: In all the ten directions, in each single direction, world systems as

numerous as the sands of Ganges were illumined by His splendour. And the

beeings who were touched by these splendour, they were all focused on the

Uttermost Complete, and Perfect Enlightenment.

 

Thereupon Bhagavan on that occasion put out his tongue. With it he covered

the great cosmos of 3000 million world systems and many hundred of thousands

of niyutas of kotis of rays issued from it. From each one of these rays

arose lotuses, made of the finest precious stones, of golden colour, and

with thousands of petals; and on those lotuses there were, seated and

standing, Buddha-frames demonstrating dharma, i.e. this very demonstration

of dharma associated with the 6 perfections. And the beeings who heard this

demonstration of dharma, they became focused on the Uttermost, Complete and

Perfect Enlightenment.

 

Thereupon Bhagavan, seated on that very Lion Seat, entered into the samadhi

called "The Lion's Play". With his paranormal powers he shook this great

cosmos of 3000 million world systems in six ways - it moved, moved back,

trembled, trembled from one end to another, tossed, tossed along. All the

sides of it rose up, in the middle it sank down; in the middle it rose up,

at the sides it sank down; it became soft and pliable, and all beeings came

to be at ease.

 

Thereupon, at that moment, minute and second, in the great universe of 3000

million hells, and the animal world, and the world of Yama (the judge of

death), they all were abolished and became empty, and all the places of

untoward rebirth disappeared. And the beeings who had deceased in these

destinies - i.e. the hells, the animal births and the world of Yama - they

all, through their very joy and rejoicing, were born among men, and also

among the six kinds of gods of the realm of the senses.

 

Thereupon, these men and gods, through the very might of the Bhagavan,

recalled their former lives. In their great joy and rejoicing they then

approached Bhagavan, saluting his feet with their heads, raised their folded

hands to Bhagavan, saluted his feet with their heads, raised their folded

hands to Bhagavan and paid homage to him. And so in each one of the ten

directions, in world systems countless as the sands of the Ganges, all the

hells, animal births and worlds of Yama were abolished and became empty, and

all untoward moments (planes of unpropropitious rebirth) disappeared. And

the beeings who deceased in these three destinies, they all, through the

very joy and rejoicing, were reborn among men, and also among the six kinds

of gods (of the realm of the senses). And those who were thus reborn among

gods and men, through the might of the Bhagavan, recalled their former

lives. They then, in their great joy and rejoicing, went to his own

Buddha-Land and approached the presence of the Buddha, the Bhagavan who had

arisen therein, saluted his feet, and they all raised their folded hands and

paid homage to the Bhagavan.

 

Thereupon in this great cosmos of 3000 million worlds, the beeings who were

born blind saw forms with their eyes; the deaf heard sounds with their ears;

the insane regained their mindfullness; those with distracted thoughts

became one-pointed in their thoughts. The hungry were fed, the thirsty found

their thirst stilled, the sick were healed and the cripples made whole.

Those with unwholesome deeds of body, word and mind, and with unwholesome

livelihood gave up their unwholesome habits. All beeings considered each

other as one consider one's mother, father, brother, sister, friends,

companions, kinsmen and relations; and they tended the ten wholesome paths

of action. Guarding their chastity pure, they lived in the odour of

sanctity. And all beeings, possessed of all happiness, aquired the ease

which a monk feels when immersed in the third Samadhi. And at that very time

they were endowed with such wisdom that the Buddhas and Bhagavans in other

Buddha Lands cried out: 'Good is self-discipline! Good is quietude! Good is

self-mastery! Good is it to have observed the practice of the religious

life! Good is the nonharming of living beeings!"

 

- The Large Prajñâpâramitâ Sûtra, Introduction.

 

of theeated

 

fewtch <coresite

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Sunday, January 13, 2002 11:31 AM

Re: Buddhas

 

>, "Magne Aga" <magneaga@m...> wrote:

>> Thanks Gloria !

>>

>> I just read the introduction to the Prajnaparamita in 25,000

>verses, where Buddhas body exploded into a shining body of light.

>

>Seems symbolic of a 'kundalini experience'. No physical body is

>going to "literally" explode into some kind of light -- to think so

>could be called superstitious.

>

>Namaste,

>

>Tim

>

>

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The ordinary seems most extraordinary here... the "extraordinary,"

quite ordinary and even boring.

 

Namaste,

 

Tim

[Guest guest]

Just this!

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhh ...... :-)

 

Namaste,

Dan

 

, "fewtch" <coresite@h...> wrote:

>

> The ordinary seems most extraordinary here... the "extraordinary,"

> quite ordinary and even boring.

>

> Namaste,

>

> Tim