Lao

Tag: Gaining Righteousness

  • The Bodhisattva Coming for All Peoples

    Mahanaya, or Great Vehicle, Buddhism arose from the Mahāyāna Sūtras and their emphasis on the bodhisattva path. Gautama Buddha had previously taught the Middle Way of monastic discipline. He built the Middle Way from the Five Precepts as the path to escape samsara. This is accepted as Theravada, or the Way of the Elders. The difficulty…

  • Abraham’s Simple Marga to Achieve Liberation

    The classical path (marga or magga) to reach liberation (or vimutti) is the Noble Eightfold Path. The Sutta Pitaka gives the Noble Eight-fold Path like this: “The Blessed One said, ‘Now what, monks, is the Noble Eightfold Path? Right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration [samadhi]’”…