What the Buddha Taught

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Hi Everybody! I just thought that someone might like to know that when I talk to people about how there are those people who either distort the Buddhas teachings out of ignorance or purposefully this is one of the first books that I refer to! Concerning the Chapter in this book on meditation, and the story that the Buddha found that concentration meditation did not lead to enlightenment, NOWHERE in ANY Buddhist scripture in the world does this story exist! CERTAINLY NOT IN THE PALI CANON TIPATAKA!When talking anywhere about jhana being a happy and peaceful place but good for nothing more only up to the third jhana is being discussed like this. In the Majjhima Nikaya sutta #36 Ven.Gotama calls Jhana or "concentration" meditation THE path to enlightenment. This is only one of many places one could look for this sort of thing. In the Maha-Satipatthana sutta (the author calls it the Satipatthana sutta confusing it with the Satipatthana sutta of The Majjhima Nikaya) of The Digha Nikaya (#22) the Buddha starts with Vipassana but ends with Jhana! Why? Because his offering of Vipassana as a "road map" was his unique contribution to the "Vehicle" of Jhana meditation which,yes they already knew about!I would suggest looking up the Jhana Sutta of the Anguttara Nikaya (AN.9.36)at the accesstoinsight.org website as well you might try the "Tranquility and Insight" samadhi sutta of the Anguttara Nikaya as well,I believe there are seven such different samadhi suttas in the Anguttara Nikaya, six concentration suttas, one sutta on immeasurable concentration and the sutta on tranquility and insight. While we are at it let us make a note of the fact that anapanasati meditation is a form of CONCENTRATION /TRANQUILITY meditation taught by the Buddha. When you focus on your breathing (breathing in and out)you are not focusing on anything else are you? If you ever hold a copy of this book in your hands and read some of the supplementary material you will know then that the man who wrote this book Dr. Walpola Rahula got his doctorate in medicine NOT Buddhist studies! This is why instead of reading a book about what the Buddha Supposedly taught or not, it is ALWAYS much better to go to the scripture and read THAT instead! The pali Canon Tipataka is the oldest know extant written record of what the Venerable Gotama taught his disciples for dhamma (teaching). Now lets all go to accesstoinsight.org and find out what to the best of our knowledge the Buddha actually taught (overall) shall we? There might be areas of disagreement amongst some scholars about this sutta or that sutta etcetera, BUT at least you'll be working with the scripture ITSELF. I wish you all the best of all things spiritual! Bhikkhu aggacitto revaggacitto7@gmail.com By the way,I have a few things that I have published at Scribd.com as well!You can look any of that up by the search words Bhikkhu aggacitto.

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