CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hungry Tiger, Shravasti, Human Beings In Buddhism
21 Nov 2017
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(e doesn"t care about spelling except for (cid:498)the buddha(cid:499) From his past meditation master-> he knows what it feels like to enter the different states of mind. He knows that these meditation states exist in samsara and will produce. Karma still-> so because he can tell he is not experiencing karma then he knows he has awakened out of samsara. Things that are beneficial to do and why they are good things to do. He goes for a cat walk in the sky and tells people about his previous lives. Told jakarta tells->especially maharaja (the prince and the hungry tiger) Columns of water coming out of his feet. His understanding of the environment-> mastery over the universe, samsara. To show the illusionary manipulation of reality and time itself. He is a mendicant so he has no inheritance. The early works did not show the buddha because he is far too enlightened and great to be depicted in pictures.
