notes on the Dhamma

  The original picture, had your typical Buddha image, with highly exaggerated 32 marks of a great man, such as the pineapple tumor growing out of the top of his head,  dumbo super large ears. Using a free, great program you can get for windows PC operating systems, I did some cosmetic surgery and made the Buddha look human. It only takes a few minutes once you learn how to use the paint program and have done a few operations. Krita https://krita.org › ... Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone. How to make Buddha human in a few (relatively) easy steps You need use these tools from the tool bar on the left side of Krita. 1. the eye dropper  tool on left toolbar samples a color from the image, when you cover your mouse over the eye dropper, it says "sample a color from the image or current layer". click left mouse button on that eye dropper to activate it. then move your c...

    MN  13  – MN 13 Mahā-dukkha-k-khandha: Longer Discourse on the Mass of Suffering      MN  13.0  - (wanderers ask Buddha...)          MN  13.0.1  - (what is difference between his way of teaching rupa, vedana, 5kg )          MN  13.0.2  - (heterodox 5kg can’t answer ‘gratification, danger, escape’ ) MN  13.1  - (kāmānaṃ = sensual pleasures )      MN  13.1.1  - (What is gratification of sensual pleasure? STED 5kg )      MN  13.1.2  - (What is drawback of sensual pleasure?)      MN  13.1.3  - (What is escape from sensual pleasure? Remove chanda + raga) MN  13.2  - (Rūpa = material form [1st of 5 aggregates])      MN  13.2.1  - (What is gratification of material-form? Compared to 16 year old girl at peak of beauty)      MN  13.2.2  - (What is drawback of material-form? Compared to 16 year old girl at different stages of life )  ...

  Did Buddha prohibit artwork of his image? Short answer, unknown A user asked: Just curious, during the time of the Buddha  where he was physically alive and teaching,  didn’t anyone had that idea of painting his image or with sculpture one way or another  because there’s this great teacher that is existing at that moment?  Considering there were so many monk disciples,   lay disciples and kings and royalties whom held him in great regards? Or did the Buddha purposely didn’t gave the permission for his image to be preserved? Sujato wrote in this thread: Images of the Buddha   (Nov 2017) I don’t think there’s any definitive answer to this,  as it doesn’t seem to come up in any of the early texts. The earliest images date from a few hundred years later,  and there the Buddha is depicted with a symbol—the wheel, the Bodhi tree, etc.  So it seems reasonable to infer that there was some religiously based reluctance   to repres...

(work in progress) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 MN 13 safe asubha 14 15 16 17 18 19 MN 19 two types of thoughts (illustrated) 20 MN 20 relaxing [unwanted] thoughts (illustrated) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 "You can't hide from me, Brahma. I see all." 50  51 52 eleven doors to the deathless 53 Buddhas are not exempt from back aches, injuries, old age. He asks Ananda to give talk on gradual training. 54 seven famous similes for kāma 1) 2) 3) 4)  5) 6) 7) MN 55 56 57