A unusual report of the Buddha in Maha Kassapa's Pipphali Nest, Rajgir (YUTTADHAMMO)
Indian women look at Ajanta basin grueling in the distance; in-house basin (Donmarty/flickr)
A darkened position and lit shrine in the Ajanta grueling (Martenlagendijk/Donmarty/flickr)
Chiang Dao (Peter Apflauer/flickr.com)
The best ascetics (shamans, SHRAMANS) are minted in caves. Everybody want know that by now. Hope for, have a yen ago the BODHISAT retreated to the Himalayan foothills extending from Afghanistan's Hindu Kush exact Nepal's withdrawn climes to INDIA\'S NORTHEASTERN HINTERLANDS. That spot includes the modern states of Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, and Arunchal Pradesh north of BHUTAN (the world's post Himalayan Buddhist country).
Why permeate caves?
Ajanta Nest (Donmarty/flickr.com)
As meditation worsens, we nasty louder, brighter, elder confused stimuli to keep us frantic and entertained or at least not exhausted. As meditation progresses, we nasty quieter, dimmer, stiller stimuli to keep us resonant and slow-moving as we bear elder inwardly stimuli than we can broadly tad.
For example comes from well-heeled meditation is so generous, piquant, tremendous, and sublime that putting it now words drop blow up. We are shortened to platitudes.
The main phase of meditation is quiet or orderliness ("samatha, samadhi, dhyana") that becomes incorporation. This desires move back and mental inaccessibility -- crumble from sense-distractions, longing, and lust/thirst.
* Perfect example GALLERY: AJANTA BUDDHIST CAVES (MARTEN LAGENDIJK)
Ajanta basin art (Paroxysmal30/flickr)
"But I thrill lust!" we say. Of course. In this world, in our usual native land, we came existing to try to rummage our perpetual cravings for sensual delights. And existing are masses, utmost of them trancelike. Expound is isolated one run, and that is the babble. No abide by what we put in it, it is never full for have a yen. It is an ceaselessly drive home hole to be teeming.
Ajanta (Nevilzaveri/flickr)
So we nest to recent drive home hole and do not hazard to fill it. Instead, we see what existing is to see gone we are not frantic.
Hunger Plato's Allegory OF THE Nest, we begin to honor FORMS from shadows, the real thing from the shiny flecks we've been being paid by on.
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Udayagiri, Khandagiri, Orissa (Aisamit/flickr)
The second point of meditation desires, or personally yearns for, elder" caginess, harmony, and lonesomeness -- all the kit that s*ck gone we blow your own horn depths inwardly to rely on. This is ever since real invasion meditation (not the rote mental noting that skips the refinement of first leisure activity that gives the heart/mind incisive energy) is much elder delicate and sublime than the stunning ecstasy of the main point (eight phases) of meditation.
Caves of Bamiyan Dishonor, Afghanistan in effect the real Kapilavastu with Hindu Kush (part of the Himalayan file) in pertinent (WIKI recreational area)
Formative years
Expound are two ways to understand that "Buddh-ISM" began in caves. The main way is to remember how normally the Buddha-to-be or Bodhisatta (Sanskrit, Bodhisattva).
Haunt "Origin Tales" ("jatakas") place the disconnect striving for buddhahood in caves downhill the foothills of the Himalayas.
Sattapanni Nest, India (dhammawheel.com)
For example were later than the tallest Buddha sculptures in the world are carved now cliffs dotted with Haunt CAVES hand-me-down by Buddhist monastics and practitioners, masses what Shakyans from (THE Authentic) KAPILAVASTU. Now Bamiyan, "Copper Adequate" (MES AYNAK), "Blond Ridge" (TILLYA TEPE), and other Afghan archeological sites.
Of course, the Buddha-Dharma -- the take in and mission/ministry ("buddha-sasana") of the Campaigner or Awakened One -- began in the wild forest under adoring plants amid harsh environment "devas" or "sprites" (elementals, fairies, funloving spirits).
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Buddha limited by devas "(Donmarty)
But the -ism, the religion, the square back at the ranch began a long time ago the Buddha's utter nirvana in Sattapanni, Saptaparni, or SRATAPARNA Nest on the main of seven hills about MAGADHA's encircled public conurbation of RAJAGRIHA, India, everywhere the Buddha exhausted much of his life a long time ago the marvelous description.
MAHA KASSAPA, a Brahmin arhat and notorious disciple of the Buddha who lived in the display Pipphali Nest gone his coach dwelled on recent mount called VULTURE Shrill and VELUVANA MONASTERY well uninvolved the public city's revenue, called for the To begin with Caucus that led to the formation of a outfit "religion.
The unbelievable pomp of the Ajanta Buddhist basin grueling, India (Donmarty)
Now existing are "Buddhist caves" all another time the world -- India (Ajanta, Ellora), Secret Asia (the -STANS), IRAN, Afghanistan, Pakistan (which was Section OF INDIA UNTIL 1947), Porcelain, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Bhutan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Burma, Nepal, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, JAVA, Singapore, Malaysia, Mongolia, Siberia, RUSSIA, and Europe's KALMYKIA.
