Chapter 8: the meaning and the role of the Cult.

Why is there the cult ceremony rituals in Buddhism? The Buddhists, or at least for a Western Buddhists there should avoid the cult ceremonies or not?

The reflecting and enjoying experiences in Buddhism is aimed at home help out with compassion, respect and gratitude, that is what is essential in allowing meditation that many people (West) all know and regularly carry out training. But most didn't have a bit of knowledge about the role of the cult of Buddhism (the author wanted to say is that most Western people follow Buddhism come into practice meditation and learn the role of the cult).

As flouted the cult ceremony how much are we knocking much of its value. Anyone who has ever attended the ceremony that strayed often seem to have the sense that there is something false. Then we just wanted to Buddhism by removing the abstract form it.

So we should also learn more deeply about the emotional apprehension on this most can understand it more thorough.

In the West today, the divine correlation there (between the religious cult and ceremony) gradually have lost the meaning of it (in France currently 4.50% of the population to the Church). But that also doesn't mean the Western world's sacred bond has been completely cut. The work of art as well as the natural scenery is still causing much impact in the hearts of some people and it has proved an outstanding bond is sacred on here never loses. Indeed we all feel are sometimes also required a few minutes minutes of relaxation, freedom and openness with which advance the reality-such as those at looking at an artwork or a stroll on the beach. In her moments of a serene feeling surges among ourselves.

But the sacred bond that is no longer the monopoly of other religions, and to the East of us, true it is just one way that the cult used to create effects and consolidation of power, rather than helping people find the source of life. So for us (the West) the holiday rituals have become the shackles left over from the long-gone era, which is now completely obsolete. These are seen as superstition or things used to dominate and need to be removed.

Actually, the trend on this is also a reason anymore.

The era of us today no longer believe in the cult ceremony rituals, myths, types of icons or the sign, which only looks at a transparency of the rational-though in no sense are the rigid aspect of transparency that. During this time we just want to remove the canopy dulling of myth and ritual that most have no benefits at all. For our generation, the world only know worship the only effective may become integrity when those upset about the significance of the existence was completely removed, and all activities are for series must be placed under the govern of the standards set by the principles of efficiency.

But the purpose of worshipping ceremony rituals back is to bring people back to their source, aimed at undercutting the ceiling line and delete the habit usually bad-news means that Infinity-mark-results. If seen under the aspect of any one form of ritual cult would also hold a little contest in every moment of time to help us to find some meaning in his life and to give her life a deeper aspect.

Because of that purpose that many followers of Buddhism has made for himself a life always in tune in a way that harmonizes with the cult ceremony rituals, sometimes the ritual she is just what real simple (such as light up a kitchen up the altar, or hitting a Bell in the morning). First of all it is helping them focus more on the beauty of human beings and of this world and to link them to their source.

But if you want to find the meaning of the ritual deeply indeed quite difficult for Western people who we are. Because not only know the rituals worshipping ceremony of execution is enough but aware of their meaning in the fine life and figure out what's the meaning of each moment one.

The significance of the cult in Buddhism

24-Bai is a synthetic include some action represents a harmony between the acts, words and attentiveness of the us. In harmony's every gesture is to reveal the true form, a keen consciousness and piecemeal, and each language shall keep its purity. We can't say it's something unique, unique or logos for a smart at all-but it is simply what is right.

If you want to speed up the ceremony rituals achieve significant so it must go hand in hand with an allowed practice accurate and dignified. Meditation the Zen school developed the miraculously beautiful ceremonies, such as the tea ceremony, for example. Tea was introduced into Japan in the centuries XII and can only be viewed as an herbal supplement. All four centuries later, the tea was a teacher Pension Benefit is (Rikyu) turns into an art and an allowed practice amend, by giving some etiquette correctly, and do reveal is that rituals count in exam.

For any one holiday ritual cult would bodies must integrate with individual words when uttered-i.e. every gesture must be compatible with each speech. They all join together to become a uniform life.

The reflecting and analyzing the ideologies will expressly not longer needed. What is important above all is the precision and seriousness in each gesture. No need to find a way to create quotes nothing but simply enforce what it should do.

Thus the role of rituals that will help us integrate with a particular root rules intended to help us set foot on the ground and at the same time connected to that of the whole universe, and help for everyone around us also enjoy spreading the atmosphere of it.

For the Western world, the ritual does not necessarily bring religious personality. For example, to go to a concert can also help us find deep and cause of what is ritual. We walked into the theater and sat down. The musicians stepped in and started to play music. Music gives us a certain excitement. We feel Andy is what always weighs in his life. We clap so warmly to commend and thank them.

Cult ceremony also has a purpose similar to that. That's what really simple, not even getting us to think of trouble, but can help us find the freedom is hidden and is weighing by everything danger and worried, by the loss and the horrors of everyday life.

In view of the purpose of the Buddhist cult ceremony is intended to help us come closer to Buddha, the atmosphere was warm and open to know how, is the truth in every moment that we hardly ever notice it. Buddhism is a religion atheism because the cult ceremonies whether for having created a direct touch and truly would Buddha or not is not related to the job. So when reflecting on the Buddha, about Jesus or just a haywire-then it is important above all is his soul, the expansion of the heart and the breathing of yourself.

At the time of origin of Buddhism in India, the ritual cult ceremony mainly for relates only to the arch symbolizes the Buddha's spiritual called stupa (i.e. The Chedi). The stupa was built everywhere in Asia. Ceremony ritual cult then simply going around the arch that follow clockwise. Inside the arch was then often don't have the rooms at all. A walk around the stupa is called rally (circumambulation-paraded around an iconic religious way). How to walk it dignified and attentiveness to each body's movements to help you integrate with the presence of the Buddha. walking around an architecture-such as a stupa in the case above and the shaft of the tower is the symbol of the link between heaven and Earth-just a symbolic form is a universallike the case of the clergy (druide/druid) in the sale of publicity (of Europe in ancient times) to go around the tree or the rivers.

Historically the cult ceremony ritual is becoming more complex, and it be based on routines continue availability of the Indians as much to a hotel. Invitations are shipped to your hotel to opine on his blessing if this person visited, then how much more people, gift, or more often invited to a feast, after all is seeing people with all due reverence to the ranks of people. So instead of picking a character then we open ourselves to receive the Buddha-view the Buddha as a distinguished guests. We set up the altar, set up a bowl of marinated aromatic flowers and a little sacrifice. After that, we can also list up the words is lauded Buddha. creating an atmosphere expand and bring the show to a certain liveliness.

It's very regrettable that we often forget that the rituals and ceremony of worshipping ceremony can also help get your conscious mind, but think only allow meditation and learning (French Leaders) can do it. Anyway, if only to know the ritual execution as a routine that makes no sense is the sense that nothing just Juana only. When the integration is with ritual and understand that what is then the new rituals can become a tremendous efforts are.

Every time these guys no sermon stood out when I'm interested in the enforcement of the correct worshipping ceremony traditionally (i.e. the ritual chant Mantras before preaching, and saying please also note the author practiced Tibetan Buddhism and is very active in the Hong France, and he is also the President and founder of a Buddhist Association) which just necessarily focus and refers to the practice of meditation. It is simply sitting down and don't need to yet another theatrical form. Don't let any one thing becomes redundant. Just a direct integration with the possible form of naked for her own human place-and also with what is grip it and its confinement. Literally just received the beautiful results shown in the present.

But in addition to the time to teach me I always let the holiday ritual cult dominates my lifestyle through each of my actions. Though sometimes we should also enforce 24-cult, but must always pay attention to reveal its meaning and to live with it in a completely conscious.

Why should form the altar?

One of the main reasons we do not like the cult ceremonies and not set up altar is thought for that matter not associated with spirituality.

Buddhism never advocated segregation between matter and spirit, between body and mind that just suggest we must remove all the cling and miscellaneous other afloat, and must always extend to his heart. Would have nothing else can be more practical that is! However it can only be done through the experience of daily life only (which means resorting to a cult ceremony rituals in his life).

All of us are stored in the photos of the parents or their children, a few bottles you the memories of his previous trip. It's like our minds would be sufficient to keep off are pictures of loved ones and memories of previous trips. Affordable so that we often decorate their homes with the characters evoke old memories for yourself?

These he kept a huge role in the lives of each of us. Well when we had to pack up his mind in the selection of the most intimate with yourself.

That's why we don't know his life added a little something is more sacred? For example, a few things can remind us of gratitude to the Buddha? (the author should just set up an altar or pitching a Buddha statue in the House).

Donation is also a way to show your affection towards him who enlightened, articulate its concerns should always remember to Buddha.

However can still happen a certain danger that Buddhism is not naturally can be avoided: that's the way distorts the competition aspects are over here making it a rigid rules, and if that breaks down then have to suffer these things «misfortune». It's just a minor ethics based on the innovative standard duty and superstitions. Donation the Buddha is not the way to help yourself get out what misfortune, or to prove himself as a Buddhist model, but rather it is the Act of helping himself to expand the heart and mind of her own.

Such as when we donate a gift for a friend, it also means pleasing his sympathy for you is more important than the value of the gift. We found a really funny like something through the gesture of sacrifice. Likewise, action donation offers many more inner meaning is the value of sacrifice-the inner meaning then logos for gratitude, confidence and her dear heart.

Why should we donation the images represent the Buddha?

The answer is simple, it is because we are often tweaked to the presence of the Buddha, of loves and the affectionately. Thus, we need to reveal a practical action that helps us integrate with the vote's wide open spaces.

However here is the more conventional explanation. Many schools advocates if want to achieve Enlightenment, one side is opening his mind (wisdom) and the heart (compassion), and on the one hand, they must create favorable conditions scene (ethics). It is the combination of intellect and morality. Meditation and learn (French Director) helps us achieve the first aspect (wisdom). The action will bring the second aspect (ethics). Gestures of the Buddha over wherever a petal is symbolically go again but it is the best way to evoke the presence of the Buddha.

The first aspect (intellect) is paramount, the second aspect (ethics) is relative. Buddhism advocates the two aspects must always go hand in hand with each other.

All the rituals is that the religious form of idolatry or not?

The Bible-based religion reviews Buddhism as a religion worship icons.

But what is the iconic worship? Here's how to make the absolute halt to form inside the imagery helps us tame it and access to it, and at the same time feel a love love forced himself into the picture now. As for the religion based on the Bible, it is a way to help achieve the reality of Sun rise above all other forms of human expression.

However Buddhism is also a counterpoint necessarily a radical way for any one form of worship of any kind. Really, just like other religions based on the Bible, Buddhism also denied making the absolute must be crisp, but Buddhist use one method over another. The Buddhism rejects any form of identification for an absolutely motionless after having shrunk to its figures indicate, which further Buddhism also viewed these mistakes and hallucinations. For Buddhists, the concept of a God shaped human chess is a way to narrow the absolute, a form of idol worship. V whether Buddhism has advocated honoring the iconic Buddhist it is also aware that it is only helping to get one's own perceived experiences with respect to the Buddha, i.e. what cannot be described by words.

Advocating a pure Buddhist beliefs, completely rationalist and non-holiday-cult is just a fantasy story of the Western world. If think need to purge to weed out of the Buddha's life and all that is legendary to rewrite a more rationalist biographyvoila will be removing from the Buddhist complex personality of the Scriptures and doctrine, there is no way to see the importance of rituals in cult ceremonies. That's how the drying blood stream of Buddhism.

Why 24-cult greatly resembled the poetry?

In China under the Tang dynasty (518-907), one finds a tendency to see inspiration in poetry and intuition arises from the experience felt by a person meditating so close together. Thi Hao Li Tche-yi in a letter written to you have a sentence like this: «there is no difference between the way of Buddha and poetry; the enlightenment which contrasts paintbrushes well nothing with the Buddha's Enlightenment».

Age of the Song dynasty (960-1279), advocates noted the significance of the above correlation (between poetry and the feel when meditating) has achieved a real level is high, and this policy has also been transmitted to Japan in the twelfth century. Meditation the Zen school based on some method that erudite raised what we call «poetry» up position is important. According to advocates that poetry is not the only one the «make» or a «creativity» but also the way help entering the stillness. Most of the actions of human beings are headed into the way bring perfection, or is a help for the conscious mind flashes woke in me to help it users with itself, similar to a comb-shaped raised singing with loads-figure.

Learning meditation Zen creation of a path, or rather a ritual intended to guide most of the human action: such as plugging a spike flowers in vases or pouring a cup of tea. Truth is, the tea ceremony is a means that simple but has raised are how Buddhist ethics. The focus on how to use the tools (and tea) and each gesture will do reveal is correlation with the whole world, and at the same time, the whole world is also the next hand to praise the correlation time (aware of the correlation with the entire world as a means of helping to reveal the compassion).

The tea into tea but at the same time drawing the breath and movements with breathing and movements of the visitors are seated in front. Most people enjoy the tea using a silk scarf to wipe the vials contained porcelain tea and bamboo tea scoop spoon. Every move exactly in one. Then use a small bamboo briquette to put them into boiling water in a kettle and poured into a bowl. Water in the bowl is used to wash a bamboo broom in the shoulder and after washing is complete, then got the bamboo broom is also checked again carefully. Water in Bowl is poured off and the bowl shall be wiped clean with a damp towel with only thorns.

The sparkling water in warm cheers up my slit. The tea for the tea powder into the Bowl (the tea ceremony uses tea has pureed into powder), pouring hot water on, using bamboo brushes got to stir to melt evenly, then add a little more water, stir again and after stirring then invites the first guests.

At first glance, the ritual seems so simple and natural, but it is extremely subtle and takes many years to learn and practice. Each phase of the Japanese tea ceremony is a meticulously real rules: start is the preparation and invited guests, the next most tea tea with accurate movements, ultimately the visitors in turn took turns enjoying. Do not let any loopholes which little can happen unexpectedly. The movement of the body and the movement of each finger all coherence as a dance! At the same time emanates an atmosphere made manifest a real enthusiasm and solemnity.

The atmosphere that will make people enjoy the tea will feel that he is experiencing a certain moments pass out all the dimensions of time, rather then it is also a way of integration with the real time purity that it's what is life's deepest reigns. It's like tea ceremony rituals help me integrate with others and with nature.

It is also the seat of what's important and the mystery of Buddhist compassion. The compassion that lurks behind the movements it's discreet, it's the attention to detail is small to create a favorable context help improved their hearts eaten with each movement. And it is also the meaning of true cult ceremony rituals.

Should we host more new rituals or not?

The holiday ritual cult though is because the Tibetan masters or the Zen master Zen executed then is the true cult ceremony rituals of Buddhism, but at the same time, the rituals she also suffered heavily from the culture and the local gods. But that's the cult ceremony ahead, routines are what complete strangers for ng Western life they still carried out to execute. Of course that's not enforcement brings many benefits to them, the reason is easy to understand because it is not what has been ingrained in the language, the style as well as their history (the translator also would like a little more contribution saying short-Italy. truly the Western Buddhist depending on their schools may chant Mantras in Japanese, Tibetan, with-Pa-li. .. and dress by Japanese monks, Tibet or Theravada and. .. But that's the matter does not reflect the language, style and their history, but also help them integrate with the origins and history of Buddhism. Apply an evidence quite specific Meditation the Zen Studies society was formerly of France translate Interest into French to lead litigation, but then not long then decided to return to this post anniversary proceedings in Japanese, because of the way the Court maintained in French does not bring the desired effect).

In my opinion, they must set out other than the ceremonies, eating deeper into the culture of the West and more relevant to their context (today's comments are also quite right because the austerities of meditation according to learn Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, Ceylon, China ... the eulogy recited in different languages, dress and ritual feasts Bai also has different sections, but there are also many strokes are very close together. So if Western people truly want to find yourself worshipping ceremony rituals in line with its history and culture is necessarily a job should do, but also not an easy task. It is common to see author Fabrice Midal wearing polo shirt and a black jacket, tie the Buddhist flag, then the shirt on his chest a PIN-shaped leaf Bodhi, the head shaved smooth thín. There is an affordable way that he wanted to set up images typical of a Western monk? -additional notes by the translator). Also please saying reiterates that the purpose of the ceremony was the help on creating an integration between the body, the experience felt his emotions as well as the presence of the Buddha, is designed to help you rise above the correlation is completely «mind» for this world. In summary is indeed very difficult for us (Western people) have to learn to follow the rites ritual cult executed in China or from long-gone era Campuchea.

Of course is not too difficult for Western people to learn and practice the tea ceremony rituals or ceremonies passive about tan-GAM of Tibetans. all are Rite it's downright amazing, however only a few Western people can keep up. Thus will be very hard to make Buddhism becomes lively and flourishes in the hearts of people everywhere.

Affordable has more solemn ceremony ever held the airline aims to mark the big event in the life of each person or reasonable?

Peoples would also have the ceremony rituals lost bridge brings more or less meaning in relation to our lives. The holiday ritual pit is intended to mark the great event in every human: such as at birth, the transition from childhood to the stage years early (Jews held ceremonies to mark the transition to adult or «this», i.e. at the child gets 13 years for boys and 12 years for girls), anniversary or death.

We will not live in a real way as if the events that occurred in his life have no meaning anymore. There are many people at normal indifference to religion but still turn to religion when big events happen during his lifetime. Even the most diehard atheist, people sometimes still find they were married in the Church or would do mass on the occasion of bereavement (author speaks to what happened in Western societies, but the reality that is universal and can occur in any of a society or a nation).

We always need to act, the words and gestures to help us integrate with a symbolic tangle with much help us to find a certain power-assisted. Buddhism has always recommended that we should choose for themselves the appropriate icons for each scene scenarios. Why I always ready and always find a blessing when the ceremony master stands out in the marriage and I always see it as an occasion to make manifest what the purpose is in love.

Nowadays it is common to see death as an event is violent, a failure in life. But the ceremonies marking the depart between us and the public alike as no longer retained as before. Many sociologists and psychologists are very interested in the problems caused by the indifference of that. The removal of the ritual is a way of denying the importance of the depart due to the death cause and demand desire find themselves a spiritual solace are always present in every human being. Buddhism is a religion that can help us solve these problems.

Buddhism is a non-religious beliefs can therefore help to many different countries creating more new cult ceremony rituals.

Buddhism took the non-religious aspects and can therefore help us see what practically easier: here's how to evoke the movements and the icon (that means the holiday ritual cult) says it is specifically the meaning of reality and joy during the existence of the present moment is going on.

Buddhism also necessarily advocating atheism, and that every moment will also correct truth is like that, no need to add to it a meaning other foreign (reality is like that does not need the hand of a God at all). Ceremony ritual cult only to manifest the truth in each different context.

A few notes of the translator

Buddhism brought out more holiday ritual cult sometimes quite fussy and Primitive Buddhism also had many ceremonies Although superficially seem simple but in fact equally solemn and serious. Meanwhile, some Western Buddhist back tends to want to turn to Buddhism becoming a «creed» absolutely scientific, pragmatic and rationalists. Representing this trend was a teacher and prominent Buddhist scholar is Stephan Batchelor, and this trend is currently also caused much controversy in the Western mass media.

Of raised event on here because a few Western scholars often mistakenly melding the above tendencies of Stephan Batchelor's advocates with a master and his ideology of Buddhism of Thailand is Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (1906-1993). Stephan Batchelor advocated strengthened Buddhism to adapt to trends in the Western societies, meanwhile, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu a side still adhered to the pure teachings of Buddhism and a side, only raised and deployed the manner of real practical help people work towards enlightenment. This policy may be found quite pronounced through a very famous work of his entitled as «Book for mankind».

Anyway, the holiday ritual cult broad circumscription, it's also downright necessary for any religion whatsoever, it is the energy of religion in General. For the case of Buddhism, though it is the Mahayana or had the ceremony rituals tribe carried the meaning so close to each other. Indeed, if one Mahayana Buddhists visited a Primitive Buddhist countries such as Burma, Thailand and Ceylon were also most likely won't feel a bit strange at all.

In Vietnam, the back is often the «mixed» it was remarkable and full of fun, many Mahayana Buddhists to enjoy cult Primitive temples, they burn incense and a cult is also nothing like when they come to a Mahayana Buddhist temple, and backslashes, the Original Buddhists also regularly participates in events of the Mahayana.

If the Original Buddhists focus on the implementation of the truly pure cult ceremonies help bring her a transparent inner is the Buddhist Mahayana again take care and attention to every detail quietly reflect over each of his words and moves to make the compassionate emotion and an extraordinary inner strength rise and overflow flooded his heart.

Thought should also set up a couple of reviews about the meditation the Zen school that the above author has also presented a brief on the meaning of tea. It's like meditation, study Zen although superficial advocated simplicity and pure but actually the creation of rules and rituals, the accurate Truth cult ceremonies and immensely delicate.

The following example sets up the progress of an evening meditation will also be able to speak up to be fine there. Bright, when stepping into the Hall they meditate to take off your slippers and folded it neatly and the order in which the steps at the entrance of the Hall, the nose of the slippers outside. When the hold is set to step into to step inside with his left foot, and right after that, the user looked up the altar and must find a place before Jesus to sit down. When it enters the inside they must keep quiet and no longer allowed to say another word again. Do not take the feet intertwine across the room to meditation, or proceeding before the altar that must keep straight direction if you want redirected to rotate themselves in a 90 degree angle and continue going straight back if necessary, redirected until finding a place to sit. Arrive sat, then laid down, the tool is located on the quai by the fabric of the instrument is set to forward. Before sitting, then rotate and navigate to the altar, then Jesus must Jesus must place himself about to sit and even Austria KESA truth and sit up is located on the instrument. To pay attention so it's straight to the people sitting in the same row with her, and to keep a distance to the wall in front of it like the others. If you have to sit in the second row, not sitting behind someone seated in the front row that is sitting right in the distance between the two in front of ...

While meditating, where four corner of the Hall have four teacher sits facing the person meditating for «watch», take hands a small bell. If there is any mind restless or being distracted, the possible form of oscillation will reflect directly on the sitting posture, such as sit, often fixing posture, your back straight or not are two shoulder suddenly will drop down, etc., and the signs that do not copy from my observation of the teacher in charge of the watchThis, and the Mainland hitting a Bell quietly to vigilance and to pull the person meditating can return to the form of attention. The instructor hosted then sat on a low podium, facing the altar in the specified input. It sometimes can take off lyrics to raise a kōan or preach a couple of short verse with a real voice low, slow and smooth.

In sum, if a practice does not understand the meaning of the rites on here will probably think it's terribly serious rules, Stern and nệ. But when the conscious intent of the ritual y then the meditation will also understand that the solemnity and seriousness which is a means of helping themselves to forget one's own self and to mingle with the atmosphere calm, dignified and warm are widely around thea true deep space and pure, beyond space and time, cut off the connection wires bound themselves to the mundane world.

After about an hour (or a week of incense) then the meditation temporarily stopped, everyone stands up hooked the tail another meditation.Meditation is also governed by many rules is no less stringency than those prescribed for the sitting posture.

After the practice ended, each person in turn returned to their place to continue the meditation and this time it lasted about an hour. Meditation sessions ended with three Bell's lead, and followed by a blank return nine powerful drag people meditating returns to the reality around us. People twist your back, toward each other and read my original soldering tools. Then they all stand up toward each other and it must get on your mọp down to my each other three times. After all, each man hugged his tail hooked tool is located each other slowly walked out of the Hall. When near to the door, then rotate the left direction on the altar to Jesus must however a last time. Before stepping out is a teacher stood next to the door, holding a small bell has just hit a gently must fit my self and I have to pay back the money it must feast. When you step out the door, you step with the right foot and. ..

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