User:Buddhalord



A casual Vipassana meditator for more than 2 decades. Vipassana the meditation taught by Buddha is a great method for achieving awakening. It was brought to India from Burma(Myanmar) in 60's by Sh. S.N. Goenka who has organised numerous meditation courses all over India and abroad. He opened more than 100 meditation centers all over the world, as well as constructed a 350 ft high Pagoda in Bombay(Mumbai). The website for Vipassana is www.dhamma.org and its associated site for literature etc. is http://www.vridhamma.org.Vipassana , they have also made available the entire pali canon (Tipitaka) in many languages at www.tipitaka.org. Vipassana takes minimum 10 days to learn in a residential course in meditation center where food, lodging, etc. all facilities are provided free as these run on donations.

Awakening - as the Pancakanga Sutta ,Ariyapariyesana Sutta (& many other ) state - there are 9 levels of trance(Jhana/Zen/Dhyan) leading to Nirvana state. 1st level of awakening is depicted here in the figure (on right). The next 3 are (5) Consciousness expanding Out of Body to infinite space of material universe/omnipresence, (7) Then becoming Void (Nothingness) and finally (9) Awakening into the transcendental Nirvana state of timeless eternal omnipresense as like a sea of unseen light. In advance stages many supernatural abilities may also be experienced.

Activity :

(1) On the 2558th birthday Of Gautam Buddha (14 May 2014), added 547 pages of entire set of Jataka Tales to Wikipitaka, the previous birth stories of Buddha in plain english. These only existed in archaic translation by many British translators, which was done more than 100 years ago and is now in public domain. Thousands of replacements done for difficult archaic words no longer being used now, as well as the text was filtered and shaped using a program. All the Jataka Tales are available here: http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Jataka.

Also as a new year gift, following have been added/expanded in december 2014:

(2) Entire set of detailed Dhammapada, 423 verses, taken thankfully from nibbana.com. Wikipitaka earlier had only short forms of Dhammapada which was cryptic to understand, but now , with detailed stories added, one can understand the context for which these were spoken and the meaning becomes very easy to comprehend. The complete Dhammapada is available here:

http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Dhammapada

(3). Samyutta Nikaya has been expanded with all suttas taken thankfully from accesstoinsight.org

http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Samyutta_Nikaya

(4) Anguttara Nikaya has been expanded with all suttas taken thankfully from accesstoinsight.org

http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Anguttara_Nikaya

(5) Khuddaka Nikaya is now expanded from  all suttas taken thankfully from accesstoinsight.org. New sections added are : Theragatha, Therigatha , Vimanavatthu and Petavatthu.

(6)Vinaya Nikaya had only half no. of pages. Vinaya pages were borrowed from sacred texts site (from T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg), many wrongly translated words were corrected from the devanagari Pali cannon. also many old archaic english words were changed to modern english. Vinaya Nikaya is now complete.

(7) April 2015 : Sutta Nipata of Khuddaka Nikaya is completed, 71 suttas added

(8) April 2015: Ituvattika (Thus Said The Lord) of Khuddaka Nikaya is completed, 109 suttas added ahead of Buddha's (2559 th) day of birth, enlightenment & nibbana.

In total,  about 1580 new suttas have been added.

The idea is to have a complete Tipitaka in one place.

May the word of the Lord remain forever alive.

With Metta, May All Beings be Happy.

My favorite pages

 * The Samannaphala Sutta - http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Samannaphala_Sutta
 * The Ariyapariyesana Sutta  - http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Ariyapariyesana_Sutta
 * The Pancakanga Sutta - http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/SN_36.19_Pancakanga_Sutta
 * The Sakunagghi_Sutta - http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/SN_47.6_Sakunagghi_Sutta
 * The Amata Sutta(Achieving Immortality) - http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/SN_47.41_Amata_Sutta
 * The Jataka - http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Jataka
 * The Dhammapada - http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Dhammapada