BRAHMAVIHARA DHAMMA PDF
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Brahmavihāra Dhamma by. The Venerable Mahāsi Sayādaw of. Burma. Translated by. U Min Swe (Min Kyaw Thu). Buddha Sāsanānuggaha Organization. Brahmavihara Dhamma by Mahasi Sayadaw is an extensive instructional book from the monastaries of Bhurma. It was published back in The near enemy is a state of mind that is close to the brahma-vihara and is sometimes mistaken as the good emotion, but is actually “a near.
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Those who cultivate the brahma viharas are guaranteed to happiness. They are the positive emotions and states that are productive and helpful to anyone of any religion or even to the one with no religion.
Brahmavihara Dhamma
Views Read View source View history. Each of the four brahma-viharas has what is called a near enemy and a far enemy.
Retrieved from ” https: InDaniel Goleman, published the best-seller, Emotional Intelligence. Today is the Full Moon day of Waso, B. So we shall use the Pali language, which is more comprehensively clear to delivering this teaching.
Of these four sorts of brahmavihara, first and foremost, I shall deal with the development of metta brahmavihara. This can be easily understood. Metta bhavana means nothing but to develop one’s mind with loving-kindness towards others. Out of these four meanings translated into English, only the meaning of the word ‘compassion’ is clear and precise without mingling with any other sense or terminology.
Of the four kinds of Brahmavihara Dhamma, metta means love, karuna means compassion, mudita means happiness or joy, upekkha means equanimity. Emotional intelligence refers to getting along with others, knowing how and when to act, not letting things brahjavihara you, and success features, such as persistence, determination, and deferred gratification.
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By practicing and developing the divine emotions, we will have a peaceful and patient daily life practice. Even ordinarily, if one feels pity towards the other wishing him escape from sufferings, it is a virtuous thought of karuna.
The Four Divine Emotions are known in Pali as the Brahma-viharas and are also known as the divine abidings or the divine abodes. Privacy policy About Dhamma Wiki Disclaimers.
Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. As such, if the meanings of the terms: The four Brahma Viharas are considered by Buddhism to be the four highest emotions.
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This word, if properly pronounced in Pali should be recited as brahmavihada. Goleman provides references from many studies to show the importance of the emotional skills for success. The expression “Brahmavihara”, if analysed, will include metta, friendliness or loving-kindness, karuna, compassion, mudita, goodwill or rejoicing with others in their happiness or prosperity, bramhavihara upekkha, equanimity or indifference to pain and pleasure.
The result will be a very nice and good person, free from hate and ill-will. In this book he showed that more than intellectual intelligence, such as I.
In Burmese, it is to be represented and recited carrying a vocal sound as “Brahma”. Those who further cultivate equanimity, may reach insightful states and wisdom of enlightenment experiences.
Loving-kindness (Metta Bhavana) – Brahmavihara Dhamma – Buddhist eLibrary
It is the ability to be happy when you see others happy. The far enemy is virtually the opposite of the brahma-vihara and is completely off the mark for the emotion that is strived for. It brahmavibara been so named as appamanna because when developing metta, loving-kindness, it could be shamma with unlimited or perfect exercise of the qualities of friendliness – metta etc.
Braahmavihara, it would be more obvious, if they are expressed in ordinary Brahmacihara usage, as metta bhavana,karuna bhavana, and upekkha bhavana. It has however been mentioned in Mahagovinda Sutta as “Brahmacariya. What is meant by karuna bhavana is to develop compassionate feeling towards other beings.
Analytical statement of the meaning of metta. They are the meditative states, thoughts, and actions to be cultivated in Buddhist meditation. They are emotional states to be strived for. Hence, ” Brahmavihara ” purports the meaning of “Noble Living”, or rather, “Living in the exercise of goodwill.
The term “love” may convey the sense of clinging or attachment with raga, human passionate desires. Upekkha equanimity is the balanced state of mind.