How do you feel about change and imperminance in your lives and in the world around you? Do you view change as being a fundamentally good thing or a bad thing? If you think it is good, then how can I learn to accept change and see it as a good thing? Why must change be the only perminant thing in the world? How do you Buddhists feel about this subject? As Buddhists, what do you think about the idea of an eternal unchanging God or the idea of absolute truth?
2007-03-26 17:50:05 · 9 answers · asked by Link 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It just is. Change just is.
It isn't the only continuum.
Buddha nature would be an absolute truth.
Most so called absolute truths are not, because they are in the context of illussion.
An eternal unchanging god? Fine.
Breath in, breath out...one with it all, breath in , breath out.
Peace!
2007-03-26 17:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jamie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many buddhist teachings are represented by koans(spiritual puzzles)...and 'the only constant is change' is one such Koan...
the idea being that once one realizes that all is change, the only natural thing that can be identified with in any real sense is the changeless backdrop upon which all change occurs (or in Christian terms, an eternal unchanging absolute/ ie: God).
...a simpler one is, 'if a tree falls in the forrest and there's no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound?'
The analytical mind tends to think in terms of the content of the situation...the details.
Solving this koan requires that one look at the context...the radical subjectivity of being. Sound is a perception. Unpercieved energy is undifferentiated energy...like the way light is neither a wave nor a particle until it is observed.
It is the perciever who makes the sound!
From here, there are more and more koans which essentially build up to the conclusion that the kingdom of God is inside you.
It's all very christian in essence...the buddhists just use different terminology. Buddha refrained from calling the absolute 'God' because there were so many conflicting ideas of God at the time and there was no sense in furthering the confusion and setting the teachings up to be distorted by misrepresentations.
He was talking about the same reality as Christ was...and you can bet that if he was born 1500 years later, he probably would have been a Christian himself.
-Rob
2007-03-26 18:26:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Things come into existence through causes and conditions which come into existence through causes and conditions which come into existence through causes and conditions. Since all of these factors are subject to impermanence, that is, momentariness, they have the three: production, abiding, and cessation. Things come into existence and go out of existence. It's neither good or bad, it's just a fact of the nature of reality. This is a very coarse explanation of a very subtle point often misunderstood. Many people would say that the buddhist perspective is that nothing exists, that the buddhist position is nihilist. This is quite far from the truth - things do exist in a conventional way - but they do not exist in an ultimate way - as intrinsically real, or existent from their own side, apart from their constituent causes, conditions, and parts. This negates an eternalist position. Stay somewhere in the middle. This is how to avoid the extremes. I hope this is helpful to you.
2007-03-28 01:42:53 · answer #3 · answered by shrill alarmist, I'm sure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
change is neither good nor bad. it just is. sure, we can take things apart and say "oh this is good" or "thats bad" but thats just immersing yourself in illusions. as to absolute truth... what is truth? there are facts. there are beliefs and opinions, but an absolute? seeking absolute answers leads to absolute ignorance. its when you think that you know something that you become most ignorant. why? because you think you already have it figured out and resist rethinking it. as to "an eternal unchanging God"... everything is in a constant state of change and therefore it is also true that nothing changes. don't know if that makes sense
Rob S: your answer may be just a little too analytical.
2007-03-26 18:06:50 · answer #4 · answered by gamerguy86 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite normal. No such feeling of good or bad, take it with a normal heart.
There is absolute Truth, but it is definitely nothing like what Christians think. There is no eternal unchanging God.
2007-03-26 17:59:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know change, right? Now this awareness that knows change must be changeless. As you are aware of your anger the awareness is real as it does not change but the anger will soon pass. How can awareness change? It can't, it can only be aware of different "things". Thus both complement each other. All is well. The lotus does grow in the muddy water you know.
2007-03-26 18:35:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is 1 truth and Buddha is eternal since Buddha is Buddha. Things will change but their origin remain the same. You may change your skin color, your hair, your face but your soul is still yours. Buddha's flesh body has decayed but his enlightened soul will remain the same. We must change to adopt with our life but the our true belief never changes!
2007-03-29 09:19:36 · answer #7 · answered by holyfire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
seems such as you have a sufferer complicated mixed up with some extreme anger subject concerns there. in case you're a representative of Islam then i've got faith extremely dismayed to tell you the actuality. i'm as much as a "non-muslim" as you're a non-suitcase... Now bypass and luxuriate on your faith of affection and peace.
2016-12-15 09:47:16 · answer #8 · answered by vannostrand 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate change. I take it to a coin star and exchange it for another form.
I like this change.
2007-03-26 18:00:36 · answer #9 · answered by zentularis 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋