Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.Įxample: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. 禪門.Īpparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.Ī lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. From Mazu's school arose the five later schools, v. The successor of Bodhidharma was 慧可 Huike, and he was succeeded by 僧璨 Sengcan 道信 Daoxin 弘忍 Hongren 慧能 Huineng, and 神秀 Shenxiu, the sect dividing under the two latter into the southern and northern schools: the southern school became prominent, producing 南嶽 Nanyue and 靑原 Qingyuan, the former succeeded by 馬祖 Mazu, the latter by 石頭 Shitou. Kāśyapa smiled in apprehension and is supposed to have passed on this mystic method to the patriarchs. This sect, believing in direct enlightenment, disregarded ritual and sūtras and depended upon the inner light and personal influence for the propagation of its tenets, founding itself on the esoteric tradition supposed to have been imparted to Kāśyapa by the Buddha, who indicated his meaning by plucking a flower without further explanation. 達, the twenty-eighth patriarch, who brought the tradition of the Buddha-mind from India. The Chan, meditative or intuitional, sect usually said to have been established in China by Bodhidharma, v. More info & calligraphy: Zen Buddhism Zen Buddhism There are differences in the Mahāyāna methods, but similarity of aim. Lastly, in the fourth stage the mind becomes indifferent to all emotions, being exalted above them and purified. Then he divests himself of ecstasy, reaching the third stage of serenity. Concentrating his mind on the same subject, he frees it from reasoning, the ecstasy and serenity remaining, which is the second jhāna. Gradually his soul becomes filled with a supernatural ecstasy and serenity', his mind still reasoning: this is the first jhāna. According to Childers' Pali Dictionary, 'The four jhānas are four stages of mystic meditation, whereby the believer's mind is purged from all earthly emotions, and detached as it were from his body, which remains plunged in a profound trance.' Seated cross-legged, the practiser 'concentrates his mind upon a single thought. The first three are the first dhyāna, the second three the second dhyāna, the third three the third dhyāna, and the remaining nine the fourth dhyāna. The eighteen brahmalokas are divided into four dhyāna regions 'corresponding to certain frames of mind where individuals might be reborn in strict accordance with their spiritual state'. There are numerous methods and subjects of meditation. The term also connotes Buddhism and Buddhist things in general, but has special application to the 禪宗 q.v. It is a form of 定, but that word is more closely allied with samādhi, cf. as 'getting rid of evil', etc., later as 靜慮 quiet meditation. dhyāna is 'meditation, thought, reflection, especially profound and abstract religious contemplation'. Adopted by Buddhists for dhyāna, 禪 or 禪那, i.e. To level a place for an altar, to sacrifice to the hills and fountains to abdicate. (out-dated kanji) (1) (Buddhist term) dhyana (profound meditation) (2) (abbreviation) Zen (Buddhism) (surname) Yuzuri More info & calligraphy: Zen / Chan / Meditation to abdicate
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |